APRIL 4 - 11, 2009 TEXAS GLIDER RALLY / DICK JOHNSON WAVE CAMP Marfa in southwest Texas, the 15th National Landmark of Soaring, will host our annual thermal / wave camp for your "personal best" flights. Wave Window to 30,000' msl. Marfa Airport (MRF) is almost 5,000' msl on a grassy plateau near...

I want to make a small mold I would later use to create a fiberglass container to hold lead weight. It would be nice if mold material can withstand 500 degrees Fahrenheit so I can pour lead into it and then cover it by fiberglass. Alternatively I would use the mold to create a fiberglass container...

With my new Zaon MRX PCAS mounted on top of my glare shield, I've been experiencing some radio interference and linked this to the MRX: the radio gives white-noise static -- like the squelch is not properly adusted. When I turn the MRX off it goes away. I've heard putting a "ferrite core" around...

Heard thru the grapevine that the visits to the Hilton Ranch for the Barron Hilton Cup winners are over after this years visits from last years winners. Checked with Hannes Linke about it, and this is the message he sent... Unfortunately, the rumors you have heard, are correct. The winners...

IGC decided to keep PW-5 as an World Class glider for another four years. The next World Class Worlds will take place in 2010 in Slovakia and 2012 in Adolfo Gonzalez Chávez (Argentina) . God bless their wisdom.

Peter Kember, the well-known aviation planning consultant from Kember Loudon Williams, is to give a talk on the subject: 'GA Planning Battles we have lost and won....and how better to win in the future', at the GAAC (General Aviation Awareness Council) Annual General Meeting. The AGM is to be held...

I need to make a new section of the canopy on the Cherokee. Its a pretty simple bend, not really a compound curve or anything. But I dont know anything about how to do it. I suspect that I need to heat the plexi up and then weight it to bend, repeat as necessary? Im sure that several of us have...

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Some years ago I saw a magazine article (or reflector post) containing some advice on what seemed a very simple means for keeping everything absolutely straight in the spanwise direction when replacing mylar seals. For the life of me, I cannot now find that information (which I recall -- although...

I would like to buy (or hopefully trade my 80mm vario for) a Cambridge CAF-021 vario readout in knots for an L-Nav. My 80mm is for an L-Nav but is a bit large for the panel.

I need to make a new section of the canopy on the Cherokee. Its a pretty simple bend, not really a compound curve or anything. But I dont know anything about how to do it. I suspect that I need to heat the plexi up and then weight it to bend, repeat as necessary? Im sure that several of us have...

Anyone have a .pdf of a Terra 720D manual? I have the wiring schematic Thanks for any assistance r/Jim

Hi folks, I'm making a membership and fundraising Keynote presentation for the National Soaring Museum. I need a +/- 30 second Quicktime video, a cockpit shot of a pegged-up vario, with audio. Can anyone help me? P.S. You can also help by joining and/or contributing to NSM. Many of you are...

When a soaring club provides towplanes to a regional or national contest, how is a club typically compensated for loaning out their equipment, or are they? Is a contest and the use of a club towplane by non-club members seen as a "commercial" operation? And if so, does the towplane need a 100 hour...

Time to replace some yaw strings. Can anyone recommend a good way to remove old tape residue without doing violence to the canopies? Thanks, Mark -- B9

I wanted to extend a big thanks to everyone at Cal City and Caracole soaring for a successful wave day on Saturday. The front that pushed through southern California this weekend provided thermals to 9000' and wave as high as 24,000'. And from the sound of things on the radio, Warner Springs had...

for Glideplan users: Region 12, Region 5 South, 15m Nats, Region 11 South, and Region 2 are now available for downloading at: http://www.glideplan.com/download/contest.html. See you on the grid.

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I seem to recall being told the FAA had exempted towing gliders from the need for a commercial license as long as no monetary compensation is received by the private pilot tow pilot. Is this still true or is flight time alone considered compensation as it is in the rest of the powered flight realm?

I know this has come up before in RAS. But thought I would bring up the subject again. For a club looking at long term projections, which at some point will include either sticking a "new" engine on a Pawnee or getting rid of it, does it make sense to start evaluating getting a 2 place motorglider...