What is lost without them? One point of glide? What about sink rate? Is this just for racers? My glider does not have them. Does anyone have any facts on this? Thanks.

Due to high fuel and insurance costs, declining flight scheduals, and a year of bad weather, Southwest Soaring announced that it cannot economically continue flight operations beyond 31 December. They plan to permanently close their glider operations on that date, unless a buyer or a new operator...

Does anyone know of a PowerPoint or other computer-based presentation that could be used in an elementary orientation to ground handling and other gliding topics for CAP cadets? If you've got something that might work please reply to Eduardo Iglesias or Bjorn...

Hi, Does anyone have experience using as a tow plane a C-150 with a 180hp conversion? There is one on the market for a very good price. It has a tow hook and a STOL kit already installed. Obviously, a Pawnee would be the best choice. But, for 15-20K less, two seats and trike gear, it seems a like...

For those towing behind tow planes equipped with ADS-B out (1090MHz), a new version of PowerFlarm firmware 6.67 is now available which should suppress the collision warning from the tow plane's ADS-B out. Below are release notes. Version 6.67 Published 04 March 2019 Platforms Build Expiration All...

Hi, Has anubody got any experience with XCSoar? On the face of it it appears to be a good package. Trouble is the site is currently down, anubody got any ideas why? Anybody know what will happen in 2005, according to the site, when it was working, it will be free until 2005.

The Swedish Soaring Federation will sell one of its 2 Pawnee tugs. 235 hp Pawnee C, reg SE-ITY, engine 1600 hours, 4 blade prop, silencer and tow rope winch, wings with new fabric this spring. Excellent condition. Asking price 400 000 SEK (ca 49 000 USD or 43 000 EURO). 235 hp Pawnee D, reg...

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...

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...

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,...

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: ---

On Oct 6, 11:04 pm, Andreas Maurer wrote: No member in my club pays more than 600$ per year for gliding, all costs included. Lots of young people, too. Bye Andreas I'll bite. How does you club make that work? If we paid the same, we'd cover barely a third of the...

Thought this might be of interest forwarded from another forum. Rob On November 9, 2004 a team started at Porta Westfalica in Germany for a World-record flight, by which a glider will be towed over 11.900 km from Porta Westfalica in Germany to Naua Naua lodge in Namibia in Africa. On this flight...

Congrats to BB (John Cochrane) for the lead article on the Opinion page of the Wall Street Journal this morning! It is a great piece but after reading it I still am in doubt as to what to do financially. I "got out" 2000 Dow points ago (10,000) and am clueless as to what to do now with my money...

Does anyone have a clue as to the features of the NK vario? I even looked on wikileaks- nothing.

Anyone have a thin parachute they would like to sell?

Fly the best. 5 Ugly. Discus 2A. Nationals and regionals winner.Highest placeing standard class glider at the 15M nationals in Hobbs 2003.Waxed and buffed every 3 months. Cobra fiberglass trailer in excellent condition. This is the best performing standard class glider in the USA. $65,000.00...

From Aerokurier: Plastic winch cable now in series production ----------------------------- After a year of testing at AeC Landau the Lippmann Tauwerk GmbH has begun production of Dyneema as a winch-towing cable. Lippmann Tauwerk has developed the necessary braiding and coating of the "Dynatec...

Hi all If anyone has an electronic version of the T59D manual I would much appreciate a copy. I do have a paper version came with serial #1771. Unfortunately the quality is poor and many of the diagrams are illegible (high acid paper + 30 years) As an aside - I have the standard question - what...

Please advise a hapless victim of software technology. My PC uses Windows XP. How can I validate an igc file ? I can find no way to open a DOS window. With vali-lxn.exe installed, I can tell it to run vali-lxn on a named file. Apparently it does so; I get a second or so of a blue window as it...