FOR SALE Delcom AIR960 Handheld Radios and Accessories These radios were recently taken out of service over the winter at my flying club, Sky Soaring (http://skysoaring.com). A few came from club members. We gathered up all the radios and accessories and are trying to find a good home for them....

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I've received a number of inquiries about the status of the scheduled contest at Turf, with the closing of the commercial operation there. The contest is still a go, but we (the Arizona Soaring Association) are now having to manage the tow planes ourselves. We need at least two, hopefully three...

Anyone heard or seen Guenther lately? I called Dave Norwood at the Parowan FBO and he was uncertain to what Guenther's plans are. Tows are available by contacting Gene the towpilot directly.

I am interested in finding a competitve Standard Class Ship to use during the Standard Class Nationals this year in Uvalde. I would be happy to work out an arrangement to include swapping use of my ASW-27 as part of the deal. If anyone is interested, please contact me to discuss. My desire would...

Can I charge 2 or more batteries simultaneously, connected in parallel? (Assuming all batteries are the same type and approximately the same age.) -ted/2NO

I'm looking for information on the Schiebe/Alliance SF-34. Would any of our German or French brothers care to comment on the suitability of the SF-34 as a club training glider? Handling qualities, comfort, durability, soaring performance? To my knowledge, there are only two examples of this glider...

The first day's results of the 2006 Freestate Regionals 2006 are available via: http://www.sssa.org.za With the first 3 in the 15m/Std Class coming home at over 130kph it looks like a splendid time is gauranteed for all at Uitsig airfield!

Can anybody tell me where I could get an English language copy for an H.201? Either electronic or paper would be fine. I'd prefer a source in the UK or continental Europe. http://www.streifly.de/ sells an AD list but doesn't mention the POH. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK

Can anyone point me towards a listing for UK comps in 2006 please, the BGA website seems a mess and cant find anything! Thanks Robbie

Hi, I'm guessing that someone on this newsgroup will have a quick answer to this technical question. It is my understanding that Schleicher uses battery power connectors that have 2 spade connectors in a "T" arrangement with one oriented vertically and one oriented horizontally. On 2 occasions...

Hi All. Does anyone have any towing experience using a E-320 4matic? Good or bad results? If so where did you get your hitch from? Thanks, Gregg

Does anyone have any experience of loading Turnpoint Exchange turnpoint files to the Garmin 396? If so what utility and what file format did you use? My previous experience is with a Garmin 95XL using the Garmin PCX5 software. thanks

The Fillsystem team is please to introduce it's new electric water Fillsystem for gliders. Below are some details: Glider-FillSystem -Quick and efficient filling -No longer needless loss of water -Easy to use -No longer heavy lifting -Hands-Free

I'll have a few days spring free on a business trip and would like to do some soaring at Minden. Can anyone recommend a commercial operator there? I'd like to do some dual in a Duo or such and perhaps get released to go solo if time permits.

Does anyone have a user manual for a Dittel Avionic LX1000 in English that he/she could share with me? (electronic version preferred) I am only able to find the German version on their web-site. Thanks, U. Neumann

Hi, Our club has decided to replace its training fleet of K13's by new ships. In order to structure the selection process and to avoid that everybody starts yelling and defending their favourite brand I need a kind of list of criteria by which to match available ships in the market. Therefore I...

I know there are several of these in operation as tow aircraft around the country. I would like to know how they compare to standard Pawnees in terms of: 1) performance 2) maintenance costs 3) insurance costs 4) fuel consumption Also how to get tow plane conversions done, and how much that costs.

Compressed air foam system for sale. It was new in 2000, we paid for it $18,500. We used it as a temporary fire protection for our recycling yard. It can be used as a fire protection during wildland fire season to protect hangars, gliders in glider parking area, airplanes in the tow plane parking,...

Last Saturday marked the official opening of the Southwest Soaring Museum, George Applebay's long dreamed of display of gliders and soaring memorabilia related to the American Southwest. It is a very interesting place to spend a few hours and looks like it is going to develop into a first class...