Any 55 owners fitted winglets to their ships? Thoughts... comments?? Tom Gilbert

Does anyone have an electronic version of a Discus 2C manual they could send me, or failing that, a polar for 18m mode?

During the annual inspection of our L-13AC the shop decided to replace the bearings. Unfortunately they cannot discover how the bearings are installed and retained. Blanik America wants $$$ for the airframe manual. Does anyone have a manual that would be willing to scan and send a copy of the wheel...

As of now, 6:28 pm eastern time, 4/11/2016, their are now 2 slots remaining to be filed. Looking at next weeks weather, it appears a dry slot is moving in and the temps on the rise for the first part of the contest week. Here's your chance to make it to Perry. Call and confirm with Rhonda. Her...

Hi all, I am looking for some parts for my LS6 - namely the seat backrest adjusting mechanism. This consists of an indexing mechanism, cable and tube and terminating fitting. The parts should be common in LS4, 6/6a/6b and 7. If anybody has or knows of a parts aircraft can you please contact me...

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Thought I'd start a new thread, kinda-sorta forked off one "festering" in "The Boy Who Flew With Condors" thread (which I re-watched last night for the first time in decades; cool!)... On the card is a Grudge Match between two (irreconcilable?) schools of thought. Will there be a WINNAH?!? In...

Hello all, I have a really good set up that has worked with no issues. V7 with a IGC LXNav mini box flarm connected to an Oudie 2. I'm thinking of putting a Flarm view 57 into the panel. Has anyone else done this?

perhaps the SSA can learn from the EAA about how to get an STC for experimental equipment to satisfy the ADS-B requirement http://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/eaa-news-and-aviation-news/news/04-06-2016-stc "EAA, FAA, and Dynon officials said they have established a supplemental type certificate (STC)...

I have searched Google, YouTube and Vimeo and cannot locate any video of someone applying Mylar control surface gap coverings. If someone out there has videoed this could you please upload it to YouTube or Vimeo? Thanks. I don't want to attempt this until I've seen it done.

Amazingly on the local news in Albuquerque, NM there was a report on a glider mid-air in Slovakia on April 2 at the Pribina Cup. On the contest website there was a mention of an "incident" and that all tasks were cancelled yesterday. It also said that all pilots were OK....which is really great...

From Franklin Burbank of Citrus Soaring on Facebook today... Bob gave me my Comm Glider Add-9n checkride last July. RIP, sir. "Today we lost a great man, my father, Robert Burbank. He passed away quietly in the comfort of being surrounded by his family. Dad taught me so much in life, I can't even...

my soon to be wife an i want to take a propeller, and use it as our guestbook at our wedding. yes... our guestbook. we are going to paint it, and then have people sign the prop with silver sharpie. anyone know a good place to find a cheap scrap prop?

Hi, I am trying to find a good online resource with instructions for assembling a glider aerotow towrope. I can't seem to find anything. I suspect that every soaring club has a document explaining how they make their towropes. I'd love to have links to a few on my web site. Best...

Hello all, I have a really good set up that has worked with no issues. V7 with a IGC LXNav mini box flarm connected to an Oudie 2. I'm thinking of putting a Flarm view 57 into the panel. Has anyone else done this?

OK, the first flight of the season here in Southern California with fellow FLARM pilots showed a failure to identify each other. WX is on v6.02 JS is on v6.05 We both could not see each other's position. I though that as long as I'm on v6.xx, the different point numbers are not significant....

Moving from an ASW-20 to a 27 with automatic hookups left me with a smaller oxygen cylinder and last year I ran out on a couple flights. Then a couple weeks ago I knocked my cylinder over breaking the flowmeter - $62 at W&W; so decided to bite the bullet and switch to Mountain High. The...

Just in from the IGC! The long-rumoured 11-meter class has been introduced. From the IGC: ....Extrapolating from the amazing success of the PW-5 and subsequent 13.5 meter class, we now introduce the 11-meter class. Benefits include: - More classes mean more competitions and growth for our sport.

Had too much free time and I was bored out of my skull, so when pair-flying partner John Mittel (BZ) commented that he was having trouble finding a decent glider logging program that would process IGC files, I decided to give it a whirl. Thirteen revs and a broken friendship later (just kidding...

Anyone able to get this pair to communicate seamlessly both ways? I get GPS data from Air to Oudie but not other settings like McCready, etc. Thanks, Mark