Hi Folks, The sale of my Pirat seems to have fallen through. Anyone want it, cheap? Nice nick, ok trailer, lying Milfield (Borders GC) UK. No reasonable offer refused. Ian --

Does anyone have experince of using these or can point me to any images or articles about them? TIA Kestrel254

2006 Region 8 Soaring Championships Ephrata, Washington June 29, 2006 - Day 4 Greetings from Ephrata where the temperature has dropped further and unfortunately the sky is still obscured by high cirrus. Our pilots meeting was held at 10:00 am as usual where Stuart Larimore provided us with some...

I just heard, through a friend, that there was a glider accident reported in a San Antonio, TX paper. Maybe at the Boerne field? Something about a wing coming off on tow. Anybody have any information. Tom Dixon Idaho

Hi, Thank you Scott Elhardt for clueing me in on this handy utility. I think quite a few soaring pilots will find it handy so I'm posting it here and putting a link on my PDA Comparison and Cambridge Downloads web pages. HP iPAQ Pocket PC Storage Card Rename Utility This free utility program can...

Does anyone have any experience of using these? Does anyone know of any articles or pictures of them?

Hi has anyone come up with an easy way to convert IGC files to movies or mpegs any format ? The only way I can think to do it is frame by frame. Mal www.mals.net

Great soaring weather is coming this weekend (Fri-Sun 06/23 to 06/25 .... and a few days beyond) to the SW U.S. Deserts (CA, NV Mojave Owens Valley). Finally the 500mb Four Corners High will be building in providing a light NE to SE flow into the Mojave Deserts and SW side of the Great Basin...

Model 25 GPS-NAV with new 12-satellite engine and v6.0 firmware, NAV display, extra antenna and cables. L-NAV has g-meter (for automatic climb/cruise switching) and 57mm vario. Latest upgrades. $1750.

Hi, I still have some gap tape left. 25mm (about 1 inch) by 30 meters white Pretty good for the price 10 rolls for $20 postpaid to anywhere in the USA

2006 Region 8 Soaring Championships Ephrata, Washington June 28, 2006 - Day 3 Once again we greet you from Ephrata where a slight change in the weather has brought the forecast temperatures down to between 92º and 96º. It doesn't seem like much but I can tell you, we will take anything we can get.

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We have been using 1 Dyneema cable @ Bowland Forrest for the past 12 Months - on grass with rubble hardned tow out track After initial teathing troubles - Finding the most durable cable manufacturer and modifying linkages and shock ropes etc it has now settled down and we have converted both...

Only a few days until the start of the 4th Club Class and 5th World Class World Gliding Championships (WGC) to be held in Vinon, France from July 14 to the 29th. There are forty Club Class entries from twenty countries while the World Class has twenty entries from eleven countries. Vinon is known...

2006 Region 8 Soaring Championships Ephrata, Washington June 27, 2006 - Day 2 Greetings once again from Ephrata where the sun is still shining and it is getting hotter. Today was 102º and pilots and staff felt every degree of it - at least until the pilots managed to get high and the staff...

I received this e-mail from my 16-year-old daughter who has been in Austria about 25 km south of St. Pölten for nine months on a high school exchange. Before she left soaring was just one of those things her strange dad did. Now it is cool. The short wing comment is because my previous plane was...

Hi All. As the new CFI/Manager for Southern Soaring, New Zealand, I invite you to check out our new website at: http://www.soaring.co.nz/ You can also click on the ad at the bottom of the page. The website outlines all the new exciting developments at Omarama and includes a new gallery with some...

Hi, I just want to use this forum to thank Adam Schneider, the guy behind GPS Visualizer, for providing this fantastic tool - for free! As you might have noticed, we used it on the homepage of the World Gliding Championships 2006 to display IGC-files both in Google Maps, Google Earth and as...

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