Monnett MONI motorglider for sale or trade. Wings bonded AND riveted. An honest 95%+ completed. Well built. 30 horsepower KFM engine mounted and test run. Be soaring THIS year not 5 years from now. Due to my own hangar space problems, and the fact that I have a powerplane AND another sailplane...

anyone finished their GRP glider in Awlgrip? We have a choice for gliders refinished in Poland with a PU coating, but no-one yet hass feedback for gliders, although I have already seen it used extensively in gen. aviation and yachts. Appreciate any feedback. bw Bill

this is worth watching for field landing pilot perspective http://www.youtube.com/user/bviv#p/a bwBB

Just this once, I would like to introduce to you our new company, specialising in glider-related products, called Of Course Ltd. You may have seen our banner ad above, or you can check out the website on www.ofcourseltd.com These products have essentially been evolved by glider pilots, for...

I am having issues trying to use EW View with my Notebook which uses Windows XP. If you know how to make it work please let me know.

This afternoon about 3PM a very large and powerful dust devil removed a 30' section of roof from Lisa's Family Resturant. Many glider pilots will be familiar with this establishment - it's a very well built building. There also were reports of large trees down in city parks. The dust devil which...

The scenario is winch rope break practice with the instructor pulling the release to simulate rope breaks. I'm not talking about just an ordinary hard pull. This is a maximum-effort, adrenaline pumped, two-handed strain to get the release to work. On the ground, the CG hook checks out as a...

Lets say you are deploying a retractible gear glider in a club with members who some might suspect of landing the thing gear-up someday. (Of course, you private owners never land gear-up...) Is there a way to minimize the damage when the inevitable day arrives? Maybe. One of my favorite...

I need a detailed spreadsheet or work-up on tow plane costs. Anybody have one?

Those with airplane training will be familiar with Ground Reference Maneuvers which teach students very accurate maneuvering with solid airspeed and coordination control at low altitudes despite the peculiar visual cues found there. Those with glider-only training will not be familiar with GRM's...

http://cumulus.atmos.und.edu/winds_introduction.php Note first picture. I think it's easy to see how a pair of AOA sensing ports could be added to a glider nose.

This news made today easier to bear. http://soaringspot.com/wwgc2013/results/club/total/day1.html

On Friday, June 7, 2013 11:38:36 AM UTC-6, Bob Kuykendall wrote: On Jun 7, 10:08*am, Bill D wrote: The Colorado Wing of the CAP needs a nitrogen fill tool for the gear strut on their L-23. *I pretty sure it's the same one that was used on the L-13 and Lark. ...

I'm working on some numbers for SSA Growth and Development. I need a SWAG as to how many aero tows were made in the US in 2011. Anyone care to guess? I know there are about 210 tugs, some more active than others. If each made 20 tows a week, 52 weeks a year, that would be 218,000 tows but I...

Even with PowerFLARM on "stealth" pilots may soon have another way to find the next thermal. The DARPA "One Shot" initiative will develop a rifle scope which uses LIDAR to detect and correct for crosswind "windage". The Israeli Soreq Nuclear Research Center has already been granted a patent on...

For the first time in my life I heard a 1st person story of a release failure. The story follows: The glider, an ASK-21, was jerked forward by the tug so the front wheel rolled over the rope at the start of an aero tow. The slack was then taken out and the tow was launched without inspecting...

A friend sent me this link to an excellent article by Patty Wagstaff. It's about airplanes but the same principles apply to soaring safety. It's worth a careful reading. http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/proficiency/flight-training/risk-management.html Let me try to put it in soaring terms. Feel...

I have found the very excellent series "Air Accident Investigation" on YouTube. Google "Air Accident Investigation", click "video", long (24 min+) then YouTube. This series focuses on airline accidents in the last 1/2 century or so. However, the accidents, subsequent investigations and the...

Any time this topic comes up the discussion is about the contents of the list. This post is about the physical attributes of a glider checklist. No matter what items are on a checklist, it doesn't matter if you can't find it when you need it. It doesn't matter if the type is too small to read. ...

I'm posting this for a second time. Some sort of problem with Google Groups has been messing things up. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028185.700-autopiloted-glider-knows-where-to-fly-for-a-free-ride.html