Is anyone out there using these radios? Thanks to limited archive searchability all I was able to find was a post a while back from Tim Mara saying that he had sold about 50 of them. I'm curious what the real world power drain is on them from a 12V sealed lead acid battery. Spec is a bit high at...

NASCAR is expected tomorrow to announce bonus points for anyone running in the top 10 during a pre-decided race segment. Each race will be split up into at least three segments with bonus points awarded for anyone running in the top 10 at the end of each segment. NO more laying back at the back of...

Today I think I set career highs and lows. Highest circling percentage that I can remember associated (naturally) with probably the lowest average climb rate of a cross country flight I have ever flown. SeeYou says 63% circling and .7 knots average. Took the Cirrus on a downwind dash from...

I know the SSA Rules have allowed for a while the ability to split classes in a regional by pretty much any criteria. A few contests have split by glider type or handicap range. Have any split by pilot skill? If so how did they do the split? Volunteers? Pilot Ranking? Combination? How does the GTA...

RAS, I'm looking to borrow an ASW-27 (or very similar performance) glider to use at the US Team Camp in Cordele, GA right before the 15 meter Nationals. Francois Pin and I plan to use the camp to hone our team flying technique before heading to the 13.5 Meter World Championships in Hungary in...

I have noticed this year that my Oudie will upload the task to my Portable PowerFLARM but it will not update the pilot name, glider type, contest I'd Etc. The dialog box on the Oudie during task upload indicates it is sending the glider info but the flarm config file does not get rewritten and the...

Good morning USA, Weather is expected to be excellent here in Szatymaz for the 6th day of the 13.5m WGC. Task is a 499km racing task. Tracking links at wgc2017.hu. First launch is 11:30 local which would be 4:30 AM US Central Daylight Time.

RAS, I'm pleased to announce that the Kansas Soaring Association is hosting Region 10 North at the Sunflower Aerodrome near Yoder, KS this year. Practice June 9-10 and Contest June 11-16. We hope you can join us! Kansas is conveniently located approximately half way between the East Coast and the...

Big Congrats to Daniel Sazhin on winning Sports Class Nationals in Nephi with some awesome flying. He's now a two time champion and only 23(or so) Yrs old! Congrats buddy

Looking to analyze a bunch of igc files for our clubs trophy program. These will be flights made throughout the year by club pilots often flying different gliders on different flights. I've investigated using SeeYou Competition for the scoring but it is not designed for this type of year long...

As far as I know, the first two diamond altitude gains ever made in Oklahoma were accomplished yesterday. Wind was SW at about 40 knots and consistent up to at least 30,000 ft. I launched just before 8:30 AM in the Silent 2 Electro (THANK YOU LEO AND JENNIFER!) and found the secondary right next...

Anyone have a Barograph or two sitting on a shelf collecting dust? I would like to put one or two of these relics back into service generating FAI Badges. Replogle preferred as that is what I have experience with, however I'll consider any other model. Thanks! Tony

I don't need another one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/HALL-CHEROKEE-II-GLIDER-AIRFRAME-SKELETON-FULL-SIZE-WOOD-FRAME-DISPLAY-/280862061069?_trksid=m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7647822281301929972

I have multiple igc files that I would like to display overlaid on a Google Map or similar. I'd like to have the flights shown on map that shows state boundaries, major cities, etc. and not the clutter of terrain elevation or sectional charts which make it difficult to really see where the flight...

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/cng-airplane/ could be perfect for a club towplane since we fuel up at the club field 99.9% of the time.

Open towball available going to and from the SSA Convention in Greenville, SC. Very convenient place to pick up or drop off that glider that you've bought/sold from the other side of the country. Save yourself the drive. Plenty of trailer towing experience, references available. Save your vacation...

Today is the Kansas Kowbell Klassic. Free Distance contest, whoever lands furthest away from Sunflower wins. This should take you to the tracking page for Sunflower: http://glideport.aero/map?p=GlidePort:389 Winning distances in the past 53ish years have ranged from about 3 miles to a little over...

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/july/26/faa-restores-birthday-solos?

Sean says the US needs to go "Back to FAI Rules". Has the US EVER flown a National contest under the then current International Rules? In the May 1937 Soaring Magazine, the System for Awarding Points for the upcoming 1937 Nationals is printed. Page 12.

Saturday July 11th is the annointed day for the 2020 Kansas Kowbell Klassic.. All Kompetitors will launch from Sunflower Gliderport and whichever pilot lands the furthest from Sunflower will win the Kowbell. Follow along on the SSA Tracking page. Most of us will show up on there except for a few...