The ninth annual "Open Cockpit Regatta" provided much fun today. Of the 37 glider tows (thanks, Ken) in Tehachapi California, 15 of them were open cockpit. I left the Schleicher 26 at home and instead flew a Schweizer 26 with sport canopy. Ian Cant allowed several of us to fly his newly...

By all means a second battery should be installed in our electrically driven modern sailplanes. After many years of quickly flipping my 3-position battery switch, and trying not to have my logger to momentarily dropout, I have concluded that is best to use 2 single-pole battery switches. That way...

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I just received an e-mail from Argentina that contained the text below. "Today, Dec 22nd 2006 at 1:00 AM UTC, Klaus Ohlmann called me on the phone just after landing to let me know he have made a 500 Km flight at 306 km/h on average in a Nimbus 4DM... this could be the first above 300 km/h and...

Google RSS widget to track RAS I put together. http://www.gliderforum.com/thread-view.asp?threadid=2523&posts=1 Enjoy Al

....for her first time! Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDQb-bwZW5M Happy New Year! John Roe "ZR" www.roenation.com

All right, all you glider pilots who were wondering about the use of a sailplane picture on the packaging of Panera's cream cheese. Direct from the Marketing Director of the company: the sailplane represents the lightness of the product. No specific model was used. Just in case you were wondering:...

Okay, I know some folks have solved this problem before, but I haven't been able to find the details in any old postings... I have a PC running XP Pro with no 9-pin serial ports, just USB (though the System panel does show a COM1). I have my PDA (an IPAQ 4700) in its cradle and connected via USB,...

I welcome comment on the following combination of instrument. One audio vario, logger such as Volkslogger, PDA and Winpilot . Sierra

SSF Flight Instructor Refresher Clinic, March 10-11, 2007 Location: Caesar Creek Soaring Club, Waynesville OH Date: March 10-11, 2007 Status: Firm Cost: $150.00 Registration: Joe Jackson Tel: (513) 851-4816 ...

I hate to have to use RAS for this, but I've been having email issues with my (former) ISP. If any of you have tried to email me from my website www.mmfabrication.com in the past few weeks, I probably didn't get it. Sorry about that. It seems to be working now, but I also have an alternate email...

Hi All Our trusty Zander SR800 is rather sick. So if we can't get it fixed I would like to know what we might be looking at for a replacement. The Zander has a very pleasant electronic/audio vario with digital averager, speed to fly and final glide calculator. It was top notch in its day - which...

Hi, My company stocks and sells products for pilots of full size gliders, but I'm very impressed with the new Revell scale plastic model gliders - so I have added them to my web site. You can see details he http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/models.htm So far, they offer models of the...

The western US Team Cross-Country Camp will once again be held at Warner Springs, CA, in conjunction with Sky Sailing. The formal anouncment and application can be found at: http://deltavictor8.com/soaring/camps/2007camp_application.pdf DV8

For those of you interested in attending this years Cross Country and Racing Camp in Warner Springs Ca. You can view the announcment at http://www.ssa.org/UsTeam/adobe%20pdf/Western07.htm Please call or email with any questions or for an application. Contact info can be found at bottom of flyer....

Hi, I am proud to present my design for a LS-8 card model in 1:33 scale. While not yielding a model as perfect and detailled as the recent plastic Revell kit a card model has other merits. The particular aircraft that is the subject of my kit has qualified for the 5th Junior World Gliding...

After three years of working to configure Sumon Sinha's deturbulator tapes for my Standard Cirrus, we finally brought it to Caddo Mills for one of those Johnson flight test evaluations. He and Jeff Baird flew it six times with those shiny silver strips on the wings, then three times without. What...

I am posting this mesage via E-mail. If I try to posting by other than = E-mail (clicking on arrow) it appears to work but the message never = appears. This problem started about 2 months ago about the same time I = changed service provider. Anyone else have this problem and/or know of a fix?

Hi Pilots, =20 If any Minden area pilots are familiar with the procedures followed to secure your glider specific XPDR code please contact me. I would like to see a similar specific code for the Front Range of the Rockies. I haven't a clue where to start the process. =20