Hi everyone :-) GR8 to have service 'back'! Question for any / all interested: What is your travel time / distance (round trip?) from home to gliding / soaring club - site? Not that will make any difference to actual journey I need to take but knowing what fellow enthusiast 'endure' to enjoy...

Anyone wish to weigh in on the L-33 solo? I am in the market for a single seater. Metal is preferred because you can tie it down outside without the problems associated with glass. 1-34's are hard to find, not a lot of metal ships on the market these days it seems. Can anyone speak to the...

Details at: http://www.nadler.com/public/Ventus_2cm_offer.html Save a bunch plus a two year wait. Best Regards, Dave

Not much happening the past two years? https://akaflieg-karlsruhe.de/tag/12-modell/ Anyone know of further progress? Mike

I stumbled across this ACE AquaFix 406 ELT EPIRB while looking for a transponder: http://www.anchorexpress.com/acr-aquafix-406-epirb.html It contains a GPS that transmits your location in an emergency. ACR also has a $75 rebate for participating dealers (and they DO have to be participating),...

I had a chance to load a new config file and was able to fly today. There was no "flarm range" in my original config file. With the file I used today the "flarm range" config was set to maximum with the statement below. I had several flarm detections that occured around 4 miles. This is between...

Hi all. I'm a former cfi-i/mei and commercial glider pilot, but I've never gone cross-country in my PW-5 glider. Training up for it though. A question: If you are in an area where the fields are small, but there are several private airfields around, which should be your priority? Seems to me...

I wrote the following article and submitted it to Soaring for publication because it was something I was interested in and I thought others would be too. It was rejected because the subject matter wasn't suitable for soaring. Greg Cole is doing something extraordinary at Windward Performance and...

Science - AP New Robotic Gliders Can Soar Under Water Sun Nov 23, 1:17 PM ET By ANDREW BRIDGES, AP Science Writer SAN DIEGO - A century after the Wright Brothers first took to the skies, the world of flight is pushing to new depths.

I just received an email with the monthly news from DG. The 2 paragraphs that struck me most is the explanation of the cost of a new glider and cost of replacement parts. The high cost of a new sailplanes and the delays in production was blamed on the war between Airbus and Boeing. OK, lets say...

Looking for an FSG 50 mounting bracket If you have one available let me know Thanks Jim

I would like to start a thread to determine just how many (or how few) Phoebus B1 owners there are in the US. Being a new Phoebus pilot myself, I am interested in comparing thoughts, and exchanging ideas about this unique ship that is really well constructed, and ahead of it's time being that it...

Well, we finally discovered that the propeller was totally worn out. We took the prop to our local Sensenich dealer-repairshop. The very helpful people of BL Aviation took no more than 15 minutes on the prop stand to measure out the defective "windmill". Actually, the measurement were quite...

Hi All, I'm working on a project that I can't talk about much, but I was hoping to prevail upon some experts here. I need to analyze some IGC files in my project, and try to use the data to determine the behavior of the glider. As I understand it, the bulk of the IGC file is just a series of...

A long while back somebody (Ian Molesworth?) mentioned "lashing a Camelbak under the beam supporting the stick" in a Standard Libelle. With the season visible on the horizon I'm wondering how he did that. There's obviously sufficient space available under the beam and little chance of fouling...

In the spirit of fun, what gliders (makes or specific ones) do you hate, distrust, or are just plain tired of. Have you given so many rides in one model that you never want to see it again? Is there a plane that, despite treating it right, just seemed to want to hurt you? Or is there one out there...

Robert Mudd took two aluminum panels from our workshop to build a trailer for his apis. In return me promised to replace those with two 12 foot sections of similar material. I reluctantly agreed to this trade but Robert has never given us those panels. I reminded him just before he left for...

I wish someone would write a soaring book on flight computers. How to choose one, program, trouble shoot them, use them. Combine book with YouTube explanations.

Hello, Sme 10 years ago I wrote a program for DOS named "Polar Explorer" - designed for analyzing both theoretical and practical aspects of glider performance in any conditions. The program was advertised in the Soaring magazine for a couple of years by CuSoft Research Inc., and some 30 odd copies...

No License, Butt, plenty of experience Florida man here... Lived in NW, flown in more than several Gliders. Been winched up, car towed up, Pawnee towed up, worked the winch on way more than 20 flights alone, lots of hours in everything from a Stearman to F-4, 3 place gliders and 2 place gliders......