A few days ago, Bumper mentioned his TPAS "went deaf" in his transponder equipped glider while flying near other transponders. Jim S asked about the blanking distance, and Eric Greenwell found in the manual for the Zaon MRX that this was about 0.4 miles. But the shape of the dead zone is very...

this is good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MuBYn928cc Does the host only have to wear a lap-belt in the rear? Bagger

After reading of the recent mid-air out West I bought a Zaon MRX PCAS (Portable Collision Avoidance System) from Aircraft Spruce & Speciality to try out. I also fly a Piper Vagabond without an electrical system and this unit doesn't require your aircraft have a mode C transponder as it's a...

I have a datalogger, I have an IPAQ, and I have all the cabling etc. I have spent considerable time at Cumulus Soaring, reading the comparisons of glider software. What I lack is the experience to know what is important. I've played with the features of SeeYou Mobile, and frankly, most of the...

Grided, weather, no fly. Tomorrow, rest day. then watching weather for Friday and Saturday, Scores SSA website. Thermal tight, Soar high, Fly safe, # 711 reporting.

What day did you fly what did you fly in ? were did you fly from? Glider rego ? post the link to your old flights http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/getScoring.html?scoringId=200&pilotId= add your pilot id here and paste this in to the browser

I THINK I successfully uploaded a flight. I got an e-mail back, and it contains a link that takes me to the information for the flight. Last fall I went to the OLC site, and I was able to figure out how to find flights posted by individual pilots. This was on the http://www2.onlinecontest.org/...

sure love those solarflares popping. We had the best summer ever. Now in autumn still 6meter thermals. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638&q=The+Great+Global+Warming+Swindle&hl=en

Hi everyone! I'm trying to find some information regarding flying aerobatic with a K21 with the spinn weight attached. The plot is to use a K-21 to fly the sportsman and intermediate aerobatic programs issued by IAC. But both of these programs include spinns. Is it OK to fly a full aerobatic...

What is the maximum altitude (about) when the mobile phone becomes useless? PeterK

Scores are up on the SSA website. Only one way to describe a day in Seminole like today..........................Ka Boom.........Anywhere from 6 to 12 kts reported with bases at 6500 or so...............DB breaks 80 mph raw, without water.and its mid March. Tomorow is looking better, so instead of...

Hi, For many years my web site has been available at www.cumulus-soaring.com. At lease... that link worked. Actually, the site was at www.soarmn.com/cumulus/ with www.cumulus-soaring.com being forwarded to the soarmn.com site. Last weekend I moved all my web sites to a new server. The base...

Is anyone using XM weather in a glider? If so, what system are you using to get it, and how is it working out? What features are useful? Or, is there anyone using it in an airplane, and thinks it would be great to have in a glider? -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA * Change "netto" to...

I did annual checks about a month ago, when we were encouraged to try low position on the way up for spin checks. I decided that I like low tow and will use it in future, but before I do so there's one thing I'd like to ask the Aussies and other habitual low towers: when you release do you just...

Does anyone have any experience using this combination (with the 302 providing GPS, vario, etc to the LX via serial cable), and if so, how do you like it? Pros, cons? I have a friend considering this combination but he doesn't do r.a.s. He's looking to replace his PDA with the LX to clean up his...

Hi all, We are glad to invite you to Nogaro in 2007 (April 28th - May 5th) the second Prix international de Gascogne, counting for the IGC ranking http://www.fai.org/gliding/rankings/displaycomps.php. It is located in Gascony, in south western France, between Biarritz and Toulouse. Up to 60...

At the 2007 SSA convention I gave a pair of back to back speeches. Soaring Flight Computers and Recorders - This presentation details GPS systems for use for soaring pilots. I talk about how flight recorders are used, how they are wired together, how to upload and download flight logs and other...

If you have the tow -hook, from where may these be obtained either individually or as a kit? TNX Karen

I'm getting strong interfrence on 123.3, 123.5, 122.8 & 121.5 whit my ZAON PCAS using ships power. No problem if I use PCAS internal pen-cels. Anybody else had this problem, how'd you fix it? JJ

First race day, and yep, we sat on the grid while the snifers went round and round. You know the drill, pre practice ka boomers,, sky filled with hard bottoms, then comes first race day. It even felt cool at noon, and the sun gods were a hour late, earlier, heck, they even didn't know, as we woke...