Don’t have a hangar, so planning on tying down the glider, a standard cirrus, during the weekend. Has any one done this consistently. How bad did the gel coat deteriorate; any tips?

MARFA 2004 APRIL 3 - 11: Dick Johnson's annual Marfa Wave Camp, with guest instuctor Bob Wander, author of many soaring books and mentor to thousands of glider pilots. MAY 28 - 30: "Wings and Wheels" Memorial Day weekend Fly-In for airplanes, gliders, vintage cars and motorcycles. Pancake...

About 12 hours to go on my ebay auction of these items. Visit www.mindwks.com/oxygen.htm to view high resolution pictures and to find links to the ebay.co.uk auctions. Questions can be sent to me via the 'ask seller a question' link at the ebay auction pages. Would be happy to ship overseas,...

Philadelphia Glider Council is hosting an Advanced Soaring Seminar on Saturday, February 21, 2004. Location: Doylestown Public Library, Doylestown, PA. Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm. Fee: $20. Reservations Contact: Phil Klauder - or call 215-643-5853 Advanced Soaring...

I will be taking possession of a used glider and trailer this weekend and have a question to anyone that has done this in California. The trailer that I am receiving has a plate and registration issued in Nevada. I will be registering it in California. Will I need to take the trailer to AAA or the...

Dale Kramer proposed a kickstarter funder VTOL aircraft a couple of years ago (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1553012513/vlazair-model-of-230mph-3hr-flight-vertical-takeof) that I had a number of serious concerns over. While the kickstarter was unsuccessful, it is worth noting that such an...

It looks like we have 15-20 great folks sincerely interested in participating in this event. I suspect that more will surface once the organization begins and a real event is scheduled. I have been talking with Brian Spreckley and Eric Mozer for a couple years about this. Initially it seemed...

We are getting close to getting our first winch operation going and need to develop some Ops and Procedures. I hate starting with a "blank page" Anybody have some Ops and Procedures to send my way to get started? Regards, Frank My return address is slightly modified to reduce SPAM.

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Our club is considering an SGS 1-34 as an addition to the fleet and is interested in the max pilot weight capability. It looks like the handbook numbers are quite high, but we would appreciate any real world inputs from 1-34 pilots or owners.

A question for you racing rules makers out the Does the closed airspace rule (loss of all points plus 100 pt penalty) apply if, following a task abort on course (with enough distance on task to score for the day), a pilot then overflies class C airspace (legally, and in contact with approach,...

Hi all Can any one supply an email address for George Moffat please, or if George frequents this news group could you contact me please. Regards Chris Runeckles

Hi everyone, I have a Powerflarm coming and was reviewing the mounting options. On the Cumulas site Paul says: "I strongly recommend the PowerFLARM External Display unless you have a free 57 mm instrument hole at the very top of your instrument panel." I don't and so I am looking for input into...

Does anyone have details? Was wondering if it would be possible to modify some of ours - there are a number of relatively low time L13s in this part of the world. Bruce --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ---

I have a circa '92 Dittel FSG-71M in a newly purchased glider which works fine, except that the LCD is in bad shape. The digits are barely readable due to lack of contrast, the LCD glass looks to have sustained some sort of damage. Has anyone replaced one of these? Marc

Stuart, The reply email addres you sent was incorrect. Please resend. Paul K. Thanks, Paul K. 304cz "PK1"

Hi, I recently received my new iPAQ h2215 Pocket PC. I bought it for 2 reasons. I wanted to test Glide Navigator II with the new "Windows Mobile 2003" operating system, and I wanted to check out the connector to see if it is the same as the one found on existing iPAQs. The iPAQ h2210 is...

I've had to replace a balky Compaq Aero 1520, running Glide Navigator II with an Ipaq. I was worried about the readability of the color screen vs. the gray scale of the Aero. The newer Ipaq is a 3955. I decided to go for an Ipaq rather than another Aero, like a 1550, because: 1. The Ipaq was...

Publicity for soaring. We now have an excellent article about flying the towplane on a major aviation internet news magazine. Aviation writer Rick Durden explains the tow endorsement and towing experiences in his AvWeb internet news column with references from "The Towpilot Manual". We met while...

http://www.mals.net/bunyan Pity the wave was so mild