Hi, I'm trying to find a somewhat recent article in Soaring magazine that had instructions for making a towrope - how to attach the ring to the end of the rope. The good news is that the SSA web site's Soaring magazine search function is working again. The bad news is that I can't seem to...

I have bought an ASW27a, which currently has no fuselage tank. I have found a tank, and now I am looking for the valves, hoses and cables that go with it. I realise this is a long shot, but does anyone have something lying around that they would be willing to sell? The other option is to buy it new...

Does anyone know the specfication of the oil for the cobra hydraulic ramp jack jack? Or will any available oil work? Thanks, Tim EY

I'm quite happy with using just a Volkslogger in flight. At a local FBO I used to use a FBO Compaq iPAQ 3835 with Winpilot just to put turnpoints into the FBO VL then fly the VL. Unfortunately over the winter someone managed to delete the Winpilot program from the iPAQ. Trying to update the old...

THE MAY 2013 ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL The May 2013 issue of Gliding International goes in the mail on Wednesday. Another 64 page issue that has a spread of news and photos from around the planet. Another issue with some great reading plus a wealth of new press release stories for soaring...

Hi guys, we are almost on time for the northern season and have implemented some new things in SkyLines (http://www.skylines-project.org/) in the past days and weeks: - finally the elevation is shown in the barogram (US terrain data unfortunately not part of the database yet, but we are working...

Dell Steak 5 with XCSoar loaded, K6bt Bluetooth, set up for C302, 302cable, wall charger, pc cable,cradle for the Dell Streak. All works fine $300 OBO PeterK

Hello Everyone: This past weekend when I submitted my flight data to OLC, my barogram trace has a lot of yellow peaks and the flight inititally refused to give me over 20 km. Is this yellow denoting engine noise? Kind of strange considering I was flying a 304C. No noise that I could hear - in...

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Selling an LX5000 v6.14 (non-IGC) flight computer due to upgrade to LX7007. Freshly overhauled by LX (January 2013) with brand new display and new internal batteries. Always privately used, now tested by LX and functioned flawlessly until removed from aircraft two weeks ago. The deal: -LX5000 with...

Under discussion at the club is selling the Cub and using a C-172 as a tow plane. Does anyone have experience with this? Good, bad, ugly? Thanks,

Please see http://www.ebay.com/itm/271190633192?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 (If that link doesn't work, look for eBay item 271190633192) If I don't get the reserve price on the auction I will put it back on the soaring classifieds at $850 obo.

Dan Reagan and John Lubon covered about 800KM straight out on thermals from Caesar Creek, Ohio to Blairstown, New Jersey yesterday. I have to believe these are the longest straight out thermal flights ever made east of the Mississippi. Anyone know differently?...

Here is Stuart Larimore’s first soaring video taken with the GoPro camera he received as a Christmas gift. The flight was from the Nampa airport to the Bogus Basin ski area. Stu was flying his ASW-27a sailplane. He was accompanied by Tom Dixon in his ASG-29. And, yes, that is me pushing on...

This message was sent to all registered participants but I wanted to post this on RAS in case it gets caught in a spam filter... Our little outing of 15-20 or so gliders to check out and enjoy Nephi in August has exploded into almost 50 registered gliders! Wow!!! We received varied advice from...

There must be a network of these things worldwide. Quite easy to make a typical newspaper article about almost (*) any incident. * Sorry, there's nothing about circling over a power plant on the link below. Stolen from the newsgroup, Michael Texler... http://radans.net/jens/planestory.html Jim

From now to March 31, 2013, I'm offering free checkrides for FAA Glider (Private / Commercial applicants, add-on or initial) and CFI-Glider add-on's, renewals and reinstatements. It occurs to me that many student pilots and transition pilots need to simply FINISH what they started, so here is the...

Looking for 302 at a sensible price, or L/S Nav Uk based but happy to cover postage

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