THE SEPTEMBER 2012 ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL The September issue will be posted next week. Another 72 page issue that has a spread of news and photos from the Worlds in Uvalde complete with the scores in a new format. This, plus a wealth of news for soaring pilots from around the world. ...

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Texas Soaring Association retires its parachutes as they approach 20 years. We currently have two parachutes that are approaching this club imposed limit. Sale price is based on new replacement cost and zero value at the end of 20 years. Both chutes are 4.5 years from this limit. Chutes have been...

.... actually two. #1 - I added weather overlays (GOES 3km resolution). This is the feature that my crew has been using during WGC and I just had enough time to remove few rough edges and make it good enough for general public consumption. With this feature, now you can see who was where when and...

Anyone know whats up with the ASH-30? Surprised not to see one at Uvalde... Thanks, 2C

Can anybody recommend someone that repairs Tetra radios? Thanks. Jack

Tasks have been set for Day 11 at the Uvalde contest. All seem to be AAT's; with the Open Class up to 744km! The official website seems to have Day 3 tasks posted, but see http://www.soaringspot.com/wgc20112/results/open/task/day11.html

Zoegling 10 Meter Primary Glider. It is my hope to learn more about the history of this particular glider. If you know about this model glider or its history, please contact me. Not the modern sailplane of today, but an important part of our gliding history. This 1920’s/1930’s Zoegling is out...

All, I wanted to check if anyone has seen this problem before with a Walter Dittel FGS50: When I power up the display shows 188.888 and will not transmit nor receive. If RAS fails I'll call Peninsula Avionics. Also, I'm looking for a source for 2 glider specific items. 1) The vertical bar...

I've been getting familiar with my PowerFLARM brick and Butterfly display before installing it. I created a flarmcfg.txt file and loaded it using a USB stick. The file loads ok as confirmed by the configuration indicating my glider ICAO address. However, after the expected flashing green/red LED...

All classes Assigned Area Tasks (AAT) around 600km; 3:30; mostly south with slightly weaker conditions anticipated than yesterday. http://www.tiptop.com/app/wgc/

Version 2.37x4 is available. Tiny wind arrow on moving map is the most visible change, fewer warnings, clears many warnings automatically, internal improvements, etc... Also repairs a logger bug introduced in 2.37x1 (thanks Walt). http://www.nadler.com/sn10/SN10_Resource_Index.html

Those without virus / exploit blocking software... be ware. I've emailed Rand about it. According to AVG, the threat is the "Phoenix Exploit Kit type 769" -Evan Ludeman / T8

I am just wondering what the closer details of the following are in the Scoring 18m Class Day 8 RB is scored at 35.9km due to Hazardous Maneuvre. Must have been serious??

Hi I am considering a Garmin aera 500, for the price I get car and glider GPS. Your comments on the pro and cons of this device are welcome. Thank you, Gilles

In case anyone else out there is still using these, an online store called 'Cables to Go' currently sells the USB sync/charge cables for the iPAQ 3800/3900 (which also works with most other iPAQ's) for $.40 each. Shipping is extra, but it was $9.00 for the TEN cables I bought. $13.00 TOTAL for...

From the German website: 15M: 598km 18M: 591km Open: 663km

Hard to tell if the power outage problem is solved, but it looks like the tasks have been set. All mostly West and South of Uvalde. max distances (unknown times) 15m: 385km 18m: 464km Open: 447km

Those of you that are using GP:Live to follow the WGC Uvalde — the rest day yesterday allowed me to add the timeline feature. Click on the timeline on the bottom to see who was where when, and drag to animate progress during the day. www.glide-port.com/wgc More info about GP:Live...

On 10 August a number of updates to IGC-approval documents for Flight Recorders were issued. Details are given below At the same time the IGC web site for Flight Recorders has been updated. This follows over a year during which this site has been either non-existent or had out-of date...