At long last, homing pigeon navigation has been documented and the surprising results can be used by soaring pilots who wish to travel cross country with no GPS. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/05/npige05.xml

Before I draw up my own, I'm wondering if anyone out there has a CAD drawing for a DG instrument panel (non-motorglider, 300, 600, 800S, and possibly 100/200 panels should all be usable). I want to use an NC machine to cut a new panel face for my DG-600. If anyone has a drawing for any panel with...

There is a new large scale research project being conducted on the Sierra wave. Perhaps better wave forecasting tools will be developed that could help glider pilots predict monster wave. Kempton? http://news.dri.edu/nr2006/mar_trex.htm

Just received this from Greg Davison at FAA OK City: Hello, Mr. Mocho: An update on the life limits: I spoke with Centrair yesterday and was informed that a corrective action is in the works and a solution for the extension should be available in around 2-5 weeks. Please note that this is an...

Does anyone know where I can get a battery pack(either rechargeable or the type that holds AA batteries) for a Delcom Air 960 radio? Tim @ W&W doesn't have them. Thanks. Mike

Wanted: Rudder for Grob 102 Standard III Thanks to a fuselage being unsecured while the ship was being trailered we now have a severely damaged rudder. If anyone has a replacement rudder or leads to one we can be contacted at the following link: http://www.vsa.ca/contact_us.html

Website: www.adirondacksoaring.com (click on glider contest) Adirondack Soaring is planning on hosting the 2006 Region 3 Soaring Contest at the Floyd Bennett Memorial - Warren County Airport, in Glens Falls, New York. This is a new site for Region 3 and we are excited about the potential it will...

The PW-5 (World Class) US Nationals are June 19-29, 2006 at Marfa, west Texas. It's time to register for the 2006 PW-5 National Contest via the SSA website. We are about 75 days away from the first contest day and I need to consider our logistics, towplanes, social events, budget, etc. to make...

Anyone else having problems viewing igc files on OLC? I had no problems until the requirement to enter the letters and digits (security codes?) but now it rejects me...in German. I have tried both upper and lower case ..nada. What's the problem? I emailed the OLC manager address......no...

Tuesday April 4 produced 9 great flights from the State College, PA area totaling 9109.7km. There were 5 flights over 1000km including 3 1000km triangles by Richard Kellerman, John Seymour and John Good and an 1191km broken-leg by Karl Striedieck (new USA open class multi place O/R record -1130km)....

I need help interpreting the 2006 rules regarding the above subject. The rules do not discuss a back up flight recorder. What options exist for a backup flight recorder that would be excepted across the board in US contests for none team use. Udo PS. If you have a used GPS Nav 20 or 25 let me...

April 2006 While glider training and checkrides continued through the winter at Marfa in west Texas, April marks the start of our "mighty fine" soaring season. Bill Snead, John Byrd and Tom McKnight were flying their PW-5's here last week practicing for the World Class (PW-5 sailplane)...

Is there a web site that allows one to research the history of a particular aircraft, e.g. by registration or serial number? ~ted/2NO

Last Call for the XC camp located at Sky Sailing in Warner Springs CA. Mentoring will be provided for beginning XC to racing. Mentor Pilots include: Chip Garner, Sean Franke, Garret Willat, Cliff Hilty, Orion Kingman, Mark Mehan, and Chuck Deerinck. We will be able to provide: Grob 102, 103,...

I'm about to become the owner of a PiK20b. I have never flown one before and wondered if there were any owners/pilots of this particular model who could offer some words of wisdom on what to expect. I've read with interest the "pat your head rub your tummy" stories of flaring and winding the flaps...

My computer crashed and burned. Now that I have a new hard drive and am back up, I can't find glidernet. Has it disappeared?

On the first day of the first competition of the soaring season, Enea Bonaretti has impacted a mountain. The glider was found resting inverted, the tail cone broken, on Mt. Rocciamelone (in the Alps close to Torino) at about 3000m agl. Once again, the most probable cause is a spin. Some of you...

Fans of Google Earth will be interested to learn that high resolution images are being introduced. Take a look at downtown Las Vegas. You can see people on the golf course greens and around the swimming pools.

I have a Winter variometer that works great except that at rest it reads high (+1.5). While that makes me feel good in flight, I'd rather zero the thing out. The question is how to do this. I have been told two different ways to do this; 1) Find the zero adjustment - I removed the face plate...

Security of downloaded *.cai and *.igc files Equipment: Cambridge GPS-NAV v6.0 Cambridge LNAV v5.8 iPAQ 3950 running Glide Navigator II v2.41 Goddard PS-5a power converter installed SeeYou (PC) v3.2 Hi Everyone,