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The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has recently published a report on a fatal accident involving a DG600 sailplane back in 2005. The circumstances were that the DG600 took a winch launch, and rotated into an unusually steep climb after lift off. This was enough to slow down a slightly...

The US Competition Rules for 2013 have been posted on the Rules and Process page of the SSA website (http://www.ssa.org/myhome.asp?mbr=6310235857). You can access the rules directly via these links: National FAI Class...

MITSA, a New England-based soaring organization that promotes the sport to our youth, is looking to acquire a Becker AR3201 radio in good working condition. Please email me if you have one for sale or if you are willing to donate one. All donations are tax-deductible. Thanks,

Hi, If you're interested ;) you can watch some movies from wave flying over Zar (EPZR) with Diana 2 and other gliders. Most of the movies were made by Sebastian Kawa and Pawel Drenda. Here is the link to one of them from flying on the last day of...

Are any other Libelle fliers having difficulty extending the spoilers. Mine have become very stiff, sometimes requiring two hands to unlock.

I have a Colibri logger version 3. I haven't used it in several years and I'd like to use it as a backup logger but have not been able to get it to communicate with my PC. The manual describes the connection as easy and automatic, however, using the 9 pin D plug serial cable (no USB avail on this...

Hello All, I posted this to my local glider club's discussion group; thought I'd repost it here, given the recent safety threads... As a powered-aircraft pilot, I check out the annual Nall Report. This is a study compiled each year by the AOPA regarding aviation accidents and trends. You can...

Interesting read... https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/K-12/airplane/wrong1.html

I have a Winter variometer that works great except that at rest it reads high (+1.5). While that makes me feel good in flight, I'd rather zero the thing out. The question is how to do this. I have been told two different ways to do this; 1) Find the zero adjustment - I removed the face plate...

;-) Perhaps we can infer a correlation between the proliferation of electronic gadgets in our cockpits with the dumbing down of glider pilots? There are Standford University studies that indicate that multitasking can lower your IQ or that "people who are regularly bombarded with several streams...

FYI, recently I upgraded my notebook to Windows 7 64bit. I've found a good reliable USB serial convertor that works "out of the box" on Windows 7 even the 64 bit version. USB to Serial Adapter - Mini PRO -...

Hello All: I've got a couple of questions regarding Zander flight computers. If anyone has any insight (good or bad) I would appreciate it. 1) Are there any opinions out there about the Zander 940/941 flight computer? 2) How about the new ZS1 flight computer?

Tried to send an email to Bumper to get instructions for the MK IV yaw string installation. The email address on the package and what I have by searching RAS bounces. Anyone have the instructions or a valid email address for Bumper? Thanks in advance

Wonted plans for Duster bj-1b /Russ

Group, Time to get serious about selling the Russia. Price reduced to $15,995. Year 2000 150 TT Altimeter Winter Airspeed Winter mechanical vario

I have recieved conflicting answers about the airbrake position while my Cirrus is tied down outside. Can the experts of RAS clarify this for me? Thanks ahead of time!

Hi, I have recently imported a Discus BT into the UK. The glider has FLARM fitted with the antenna mounted under, and parallel to, the coaming. The FLARM installation manual states that the antenna should be mounted vertically. Mounting the antenna vertically under the coaming means feeding it...

A recent article highlights the AOPA's advocacy of in-flight cell phone use: http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2007/070426fcc.html It references this March 2005 article, http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2005/050328cell.html which states in part:

With the conclusion of Region 4 North, the 2009 sanctioned contests are finished and the first release of the Pilot Ranking List for 2010 is available on the three identical Soaring Servers at soaringweb.org/ PRL, soaring.gahsys.com/PRL, and soaring.xinqu.net/PRL Some of the names are just WAGs,...