Our most recent Kolstad scholars (http://home.att.net/~midlk/klsthmpg.htm), Sylvia Szafarczyk (TX) and Kevin Christner (NY), are principals in the new US Junior Soaring Assoc. (www.juniorsoaring.us). Summer is the time to become eligible for the college grant by doing X/C flights by the Sept....

An updated version of the IGC-approval document for the LXN Colibri series of recorders was agreed on 20 June 2005. The updated document adds the Colbri Version 4 model that has a USB Mini-B connector and other changes. This document will appear on the IGC GNSS web site in due course. ...

However the certification process is not yet fulfilled, the new Diana-2 participated in May in Leszno (with a temporary authorization) in the Polish Championship of the Open class. On its board, Janusz Centka won the title ! The majority of gliders were quite old Jantar-2B, but...

Flights of fancy Bob Peterman of Fairfax Station lets it all hang out when he flies. A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, he has been hang gliding for the past year. at http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20050619-115428-2667r.htm

Our CFIG has become unavailable and our (small) club near Kansas City is looking for a CFIG. If anyone knows of one that lives close please send me an email or post to this group. Thanks -- Roger Kelly to reply replace the IP address above with ceressenior.com

Hi, For you guys who don't know GeoPS: GeoPS is a freeware application that allows you to read a Volkslogger GPS Logger with your Mac. Please check it out at http://www.geops.nl/ For you guys who do: I received some bug reports from users. - There was a bug in calculating the bearing between...

Howdy - I know this topic has come up before, but we're searching for the latest theories: We're towing a DG-500M in a Cobra trailer, and it has a definite sway, fortunately it usually damps fairly well. Life was worse with a strong crosswind. We had 2 thoughts: 1. tonuge weight - are we...

Does anybody have any experience with Precise Flow Oxygen Conserver by Precise Flight? It says on the website it should deliver oxygen for one person for up to 20 hrs from a 22 cu ft bottle. All this for $395 and it does not require any batteries as MH EDS for $ 650.Has anyone tried it in...

At a recent contest we got to talking about powering flight recorders (and computers, etc) and how to survive a mid-flight power failure and still get a log file. There are a couple of lines of thought. 1) Don't worry about it. The systems are pretty good these days and if you wire things up...

On my 1979 Komet trailer with Peitz brakes, the two cylindrical adjuster components that the brake shoes mount onto have substantial wear. The wear only occurred on one wheel. I contacted Entec but he doesn't think new parts are available. Does anyone have a set, new or used, that they would be...

Was there a Russia crash in Washington State recently?

Sometime about a year ago, there was an article in SOARING on the subject of camera mounts to facilitate in flight photography. Included were illustrations of 'universal' mounts for wings and a nose cone. I have lost the issue and the article. A young team of students from the Niagara College...

I have been trying to determine what foods work well for extended cross country flying. It needs to taste good, give you energy, easy to eat in flight, not too messy, filling, doesn't melt, etc. What does everyone use? - John

Recently purchased Model 20/25's have been refurbished, calibrated and are available for purchase. All are up to spec(v6.0) and have 12 Channel Garmin Receiver's installed. They have been fully tested and are FULLY WARRANTED by me for 90 days. After that, if they need service they should be...

This is a companion question to my "What soaring foods do you eat?". I figured that water was *THE* drink of choice. But in the other thread I have seen gatorade, something called GU (http://www.gusports.com/) and other interesting liquid refreshments (but no capacino). So ... what do you drink...

It has come to my attention that one of the "Chicago Five" HP-11s is on the market. See: http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/Trading_Post/The_Trading_Post.html Wayne http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder

Since the cabon mics for the TX 760 are no longer available, is there a way a dynamic mic can be used instead? I saw some references on RAS to a schematic to do this but haven't been able to locate it.

I am looking to update the Gift Certificate for a glider ride (actually, to keep us legal, a one day trail membership with a trial flight included). I would appreciate seeing the graphics used by other clubs or FBO's for this purpose. I also need a certificate for a 5 lesson package for use at an...

hello http://www.airliners.net/open.file/861167/M/ touco

The naviter site seems to be suffering a lot of outages lately. Cant get on to it again today. Ian