Skylark North in Tehachapi CA USA needs a new full time Tow Pilot as the ever-present and highly reliable Ken wants to retire (again). Fly Pawnee's exclusively. Good Equipment and facilities. A CFIG and mountain flying experience would be useful. This is a beautiful place to live and...

But this one is a tough retrieve..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-9RPJDoC5E

This book contianed a table depicting the amount of lift produced by an empty glider with the tail on the ground and the tail up on a stand in the tiedowns. Could someone provide me with these #'s? Thanks, Mark

Congratulations to Team Payne with the come-from-behind win! Seven 1000 km sorties and two of more than 1400 km - even when forced to fly his "poorly handicapped" (cough, cough) "vintage" (cough) ASH-25. :) Maybe step up to a Ka-6e next year? Also congrat's to Tehachapi Soaring for a...

Just wanted to point out ad congratulate DS on an awesone 1000 km ridge flight! Put him at the top of the OLC after a brilliant season in vintge gliders. Mark

A colleague is doing some aerial geophysical survey work in an ultralight within restricted airspace in SoCal and they want him to be transponder equipped. Professional crew and highly experienced. Anyone have a used / portable unit they would like to rent for a few weeks in early October or...

Another glider pilot turned to the Dark Side of X-C Soaring. he is now officially "One of Us" After launching from Ely, NV and landing out in UT a pilot posted this in OLC commments: "I used a lot of family "points" to have my wife and three daughters come fetch me in Utah from California. It's...

Mint Condition, newly calibrated. $1200 Or Best Offer. MarkGrubb at AOL dot com 661.822.3941

My experiences with light aircraft, aviation-related Search and Rescue operations in the contiguous USA coupled with the recent near-tragedy in the Appalachians leads me to believe that one might be better served with a Satellite phone in most circumstances common to gliders - landouts or...

Climbers and Backpackers have lists of the "Top 100 Climbs/Treks in the World". How about a list of the "Top 100 X-CRoutes in the World" with dominant lift types and distances? A very few examples are included below. Obviously, routes may be reversed, multiple flight types are possible (yo-yo's....

Skylark North in Tehachapi CA needs a new full time Tow Pilot as the ever-present and highly reliable Ken wants to retire (again). Fly Pawnee's exclusively. Decent Equipment and a excellent facility. Must be tailwheel qualified. Pawnee and Mountain flying experience would be useful. Beautiful...

Southern California is currently fractured into several different OLC clubs.. There is a movment by pilots in Tehachapi, Inyokern, Cal City, and Crystal to consolidate all OLC flights in the region into one club. The names "Southern Sierra", "Region 12 Soaring", and "SoCal Soaring" havbe been...

http://www.tecmate.com/u_optimate_5.php They are used by the 2-meter radio folks and lots of motorcycle people. Aircraft Spruce sells them to airplane people. Seems like a highly versatile compact, durable charger/maintainer/diagnostic tool at a decent price. Perhaps overkill for our...

What a monster! Fully flying stab with a trim that at times zipped to random places, coupled with massively heavy ailerons. PIO-prone Spaghetti Wagon, Indeed! Gotta love a design that require transiting full negative flaps to get to the drag flap settings. So, if you were low on the approach...

Tow Pilot Wanted at Skylark North in World-Class Tehahcapi, CA USA. I took this job for "a season" in 1989 and ended up working full-time for 7 years. I still tow and CFI there 25 years later. Truly a stellar location and amazing aviation community. Pawnees are in very good condition and very...

Reasonable rental rate and transport fee paid. Contact: Jane Barrett at Skylark North email: mva7 at earthlink dot net phone: 661.822.5267 Or

Anyone care to look in their manual an share? Have e-mailed dealer and factory. Just covering my bases. Kind of in a hurry. Trying to get the the toys back to the boys. Silly season is upon us! Be careful! Thanks, mark.

Anyone? Learned to fly there with Lyn Bachtell and Karl Rhomann. Amazing airfield. First time flying there from Bluefield, it took as while to see it. Definitely did not look like an airport!

There will be SPOT Tracking for the Mifflin Region 2 contest. Here are the URL's for the tracking: Google Maps - http://www.hawketracking.org/mifflin/files/tracking.htm Google Maps Larger - http://www.hawketracking.org/mifflin/files/trackinglarge.htm Google Maps Mobile -...

I've put together a SPOT tracking webpage capability that may work for something the size of a standard competition. It pulls the latest positional info from the SPOT shared pages that it is configured with and presents them, on a google map. However, I need to test it further with a heavier load...