There used to be a wonderful web site which described the experiences of a student learning to soar at Aboyne in the U.K. It had a great diagram of a typical flight, with a couple of dozen links to pages explaining each phase of the learning process. The URL was http://www.miskin.demon.co.uk/ ...

Hi all, Looking for a link to manuals in english for LX1000 and for Speed Astir. Thanks, Avron Tal

Ray, Here are the coordinates for Johnny McGhee's and Dead Stick. I forget what format this file is in, and I guessed at the altitude of McGhee's. 603,36:21.175N,078:22.900W,516F,AT,XNC2,xDeadstick 604,36:11.460N,078:20.580W,376F,AT,McGhee,xMcGhee Dave

That one was spammed across just about every newsgroup in existence, including the news.admin.net-abuse.* groups. Not too clever. Mike Yankee (Address is munged to thwart spammers. To reply, delete everything after "com".)

Pilots meeting at 10:30 am went well and was short. Grid happened at 12 with first launches shortly after. Everything went smoothly, lift was up to 180 again, with climbs on course of over 10 kts. The stantards and 15 meters had the same course with polemtn and then Zion as turnpoints, Sports was...

I just received a note from Lanier Frantz stating that all competitors at R4S must have an ELT. I understand the reason for this decision, but I question whether it will have the intended effect. I have long been against mandatory ELT use in soaring comopetitions for one reason only: they do not...

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of gliding, Please consider carefully. What is our nature? Individual; or care from cradle to the grave? Equipment should be pilot's choice, with pilot weighing risks and outcome potentials. Further, if pilot does not return from a gliding flight let the contest...

I'm glad to see the healthy discussion on ELTs. It's long overdue. New Castle. I conferred at length with Lanier (my long time friend and confidant) and urged him to make the ELT rule. I hope I was influential. I urged him to act dictatorially as owner of the airport. He has no authority to...

The Soaring Server is temporarily out of service with a hardware problem, however the mirror site is up-to-date apologies for the inconvenience, John Leibacher

On the Marske wing the elevator is on the trailing edge of the main wing but now that we have a moveable CG ( it acts like a trim) the elevator is now acting like a flap. With the weight all the way forward I can use up elevator to have negative flaps and take advantage of the drag bucket moving...

For Sale on Ebay Butler LoPo 450 canopy in wedge style back pack. Used in LS6 one season. Like new. Full details at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3684153748 use att.net as isp for functional address

This mornin the day started off right. An it just got better and better. K2, GJ, 7V, OE, PC, DUO, ES, and others took tows. Climbs were good to 15 thousand, then rose as the day wore on. Some high cloulds came over in the early afternoon, but out east and north it was still workin with climbs of 8...

Anyone selling a B40? Prefer 80mm display. Please email me at jdandrea@stanford DOT edu. Thanks

An article on rebulding the Eberle trailer surge brake has been posted to the Standard Cirrus web site. Text by Bruce Greeff and photo essey by Gunnar Blanke. Go to www.standardcirrus.org. Click Issues, then Trailers. JH

The VPOS system on the http://www.wgc2004.no/ site seems very disappointing compared with those used in previous WGCs, or am I missing something? I would expect 'Visual Position' to show a map but all I get is a list, if there are transmitters in selected gliders surely this is relatively...

Should anybody who is selling a glider or aircraft recieve a contact via email from some person called Gret Olsen I would recommened ignoring it. They have recently been contacting many people in UK, Germany and USA with promises of buying your aircraft for cash and then coming up with a long sob...

Having always been fascinated by flight and thermals from an early age(R/C soarers/flight sims user), I had the opportunity 7 years ago to do a 5-day gliding course at the beautiful Long Mynd Gliding club; needless to say it was one of the best experiences of my life. As luck would have it, on the...

People do not come much better than Gary K at Cambridge. Just talk to him on the phone and quietly he goes thru things with you. Regretfully the quality control of Martinsville Cambridge left a bit to be desired but it was real basic stuff which took 5 min to fix. Do not blame Gary for Martinsville...

The contest is getting near. First practice day is 6-19, with 6-20 being the first contest day. This is a 7 day regional. Today the ramp marked with glider tie down spots is done. Tow planes are coming in. Two arrived today. KS with X showed up yesterday. Extra taxiways have been put in and the...

Oh well: Check here for details. Includes MEV and TRK http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/notams.html#4/5502 Size and location: Centered on 392904N 1194630W: 30-nm-radius TFR up to 17,999-ft-MSL with inner 10-nm-radius no-fly zone up to 17,999-ft-MSL Effective times: