A JS-1C crashed today near Houston. Pilot died.

Three cheers. The "US club class" section of the ongoing sports nationals has 17 pilots flying. Two (silent, apis) are below the usual club limit, which makes a bit of a case for allowing such gliders in club class in the future. Three more (2 x 304 flying in 17 meter, and 1 x genesis II) could...

As a still under 40, very active standard class pilot with an LS8 and a Duckhawk on order, and who has flown a few regionals and one nationals (Montague 2012), I'll chime in with a few observations about why I haven't been very motivated to fly any US-based competitions this year. (1) Time...

It has been about ~2 years since the last RAS article on this radio. At that time things were very positive. Now that time has elapsed some birthing pains may had become apparent. This is similar to the early Microaires which definitely had some pains during the early days - but which seems to...

Why don't pilots archive flight log files of accidents (and close calls and dumb mistakes) at a 'members-only' site and convert them to replay files? There are a few cases of log and video files being shared,lessons being learned, and perhaps a few accidents have been averted. The people who...

I have an early model Oudie 1, and lately the internal GPS has been dropping out on me. Is anyone else experiencing intermittent GPS drop outs? I suspect that it may be heat related, but I wanted to see if anyone else is having similar problems. The last few times this has happened it was rather...

On Tuesday, May 18, 1999 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Shane Andersen wrote: An Open Cirrus? What's that? There's a Cirrus and a Standard Cirrus but I don't believe there was ever an Open Cirrus. FBCOMPTON wrote in message ... What is the...

I recently swithced to the inreach SE from SPOT. My SPOT was on the SSA's sailplane tracker successfully for years, but I can't seem to get it to access my inreach share page, which is: https://share.delorme.com/tomseim Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Tom

I need a detailed spreadsheet or work-up on tow plane costs. Anybody have one?

There have been a significant number of accidents involving the glider spinning into the ground. Many of these accidents have occurred with experienced pilots/instructors on board. Unfortunately the only people who could positively tell you what went wrong cannot. I almost all cases, where the spin...

Hi, I recently bought a glider and it has a GPS-NAV unit with a GPS20 in it. It seemed to work fine when I bought it, but this weekend I powered it up and it comes up with a "GPS Fail Press ON Key". When I press the "ON" key, it just goes through the cycle again and comes back to the same...

We extend an invitation to all pilots to come fly the Region 4 North Soaring Contest sponsored by M-ASA at their Fairfield, Pa soaring center. The official practice day will be Saturday October 11, 2014 with 7 scheduled contest days from October 12-18, 2014. Come experience thermal, wave and...

I would like to give a loud "shout out" to Competition Director, Tony Condon, and Contest Manager, Andrew Peters, and their team for running an outstanding Regiona 10 North contest. The contest was advertised as "beginner friendly" and it was all that and then some. These two young guys and their...

I am considering a trip to Ely Nevada this week and was wondering if anyone can relate any recent experience with the FBO, Onsite Camping and the soaring. I have Googled the site and most of the results are dated. I seem to recall a story or two in Soaring that is more recent and these suggest the...

There are a couple of Pegasus 101A gliders on wings and wheels want ads with around 500 hours of flight time for $20k. How significant is the 3000 hour life limit when the glider only has 500 hours (claimed)? Seems like a good deal but what am I missing?

Sadly, here is an NTSB report of a recent glider accident and fatality in Utah: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20140623X11029&key=1 Please be careful out there! Thx - Renny

Ladies and gentlemen, A great summer soaring pattern for long cross country and triangle flights is developing late this weekend. Sunday looks fantastic with just a taste of scattered cu 15500 to 18000 and light E-SE low to mid level flow for early thermal starts. Monday will be too late... as...

I have been learning a great deal about contest flying by taking the time to look at each contest day in SeeYou and think about what I could have done better or differently. Below are YouTube SeeYou reviews of all 7 contest days at the USA 2014 18 Meter Nationals which were held in Minden, NV in...

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Not a surprise that an Arcus is leading the 20m world gliding champs in Finland. I think all except four of the gliders in the 20m class are Arcus's (one of the non-Arcus's is the prototype ASG 32, which is also doing quite well, the others being Duo and DG 1000). Most impressive is that the Arcus...