Google Glass is an eyeglass mounted voice controlled heads up display, computer, video camera, Siri-like assistant. This video includes a demonstration of someone wearing Glass while flying aerobatics (powered): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE Google is accepting proposals for the...

Well, after years of being an armchair pilot in Condor, I've finally booked my first-ever soaring lesson for this weekend. If anyone has any general tips they'd like to pass along, I'll gladly listen! I'm sure the first flight will be very memorable. -Nick

The news about the B777 accident at SFO is getting me confused. The news stories are constantly pointing to the Autothrottle not maintaining airspeed (and question if the 3 pilots in the cockpit were monitoring airspeed)but in all the aircraft I have flown airspeed is controlled primarily with...

What size radius is used for a badge or record turn point and start cylinder? 1 mile is used for contest turn point. Thanks Glen

Hi all. Just tried to build a map for Bermuda High, South Carolina, USA and the Map Gen link gave the following error... 502 Bad Gateway nginx/0.8.54 Any chance of getting this corrected or if you are working on it, an ETA? Thanks in advance! Thanks,

If see you mobile was registered to someone else and they are letting you borrow their PDA for a badge flight, the name attached to the registration is what gets declared to any other devices linked up (Cambridge 302 for example). I can enter a separate pilot in the Cambridge 302/303 but I don't...

I have two 6 volt and one 2 volt PowerSonic cells in series to make a 14 volt pack for one of my sailplanes. I had one of the batteries go bad, so I did a little checking to see which one. All showed appropriate charge voltage when not loaded, however, one battery went from 6.2 volts no load, to...

Been looking on the web without much luck. Can anyone tell me if there's a temperature probe which can be plugged into the earphone jack on a Dell Streak 5 and will it be recognized and processed as such by XCSoar? I was thinking of simply moving my probe connector from the back of my CAI302...

Word has gotten out that the SSA is going to launch a new racing class in 2014. The plan is for the class to begin in Regional Competition in 2014, and become a National Class in 2015. Due to the demise of the World Class, and the apparent popularity of the “Low Performance” contest, the Rules...

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My Speed Astir's wings show a considerable amount of waviness at the spar caps and every rib. There also appears to have been some repair work on a leading edge, and the profile is noticeably NOT the same as the other wing. I have Compufoil Pro, which will outpout CNC mill files for...

List, Am installing PF Brick into a 27. At first I was going to address the 27/29 Yahoo list but thought I might reach a wider range of experience here. I flew all of last season including a contest with a PF portable on a Williams Soaring mount on the glare shield and it worked great (And yes it...

I would like to connect my 2 8AH batteries to one Solar panel for charging while the glider is in its trailer. I will use a controller and I have 2 separate sockets in the glider-one per battery. I thought to simply split the wires coming out of the controller to the two batteries/sockets but I...

http://www.clearnav.net/main/cn-vario.html Evan Ludeman for CNi please see our forum for discussion of all things ClearNav http://www.clearnav.net

Video here --- https://vimeo.com/52396659 Side note: Interesting PowerFLARM warning in at the 9:13 point of this video. The glider that bumped directly thru this thermal (about 20 ft. below me) will go unnamed. I am not claiming he/she did anything wrong at this point. But...this happens...

Hi, Thanks to some soaring friends I have found a good, low cost source for the dipole FLARM antennas as supplied with the PowerFLARM Brick. However, I have not yet had any luck finding a source for the shorter ADS-B dipole antennas supplied with the PowerFLARM Brick. Has anyone here found...

What should one expect to pay for having a glider delivered...cost per mile?

I've added a lot of new goodies, mostly tacked to the existing panel. The results work well, but the panel is messy. Time for a refit.

Recently got my powerflarm brick. I uploaded my Mode S transponder code per the instructions, but A - I haven't found a place to enter a contest number B - Has anyone else out there got their contest number loaded and visible to the rest of the PowerFlarm world? If so, how is that done. No...

Remember the crack in the engine mount that failed and brought down the airliner? How about the B-52 that taxied onto the runway, applied full power and the left wing fell off! This all started as a crack near the spar after an air-refuling mishap. Would you fly a wood sailplane with cracks in th...