The 5th Juniors opens today. Daily reports of the South African team are to be found in the Competitions Forum of the SSSA website. www.sssa.org.za ]. Team Manager, Dick Bradley will be reporting all the news that is the news daily, or more often, on the progress of Jennifer Bradley and Douglas...

Got it at the beginning of the 2014 season, 12AH Starkpower. Last year I got the CBA battery tester. At the beginning of last year it tested at 11.908 AH (down to 11 V) at a 1.5A load. Just tested it again and got 11.820AH. My panel is drawing about 1.3A if I don't turn on the solar charger, so I'm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=INIuSXFFPRk

I've been reading tall pilot threads here from a few years back, and I wanted to start a new thread. I'm 6'7" 230 lbs with a bit of a taller torso and I'm on the lookout for a glider. I've noticed that legroom isn't usually an issue, but with many gliders, closing the canopy is a problem. I've...

I was recently told that if a FR was out of calibration and you flew a badge leg, you *now* had 60 days instead of 30 to get the calibration done. If that is the case, could someone post a URL to the document? I get a headache and nosebleed on the FAI site trying to find stuff, and I could find no...

The flight was out of Middletown NY with the Valley Soaring Club.

The flight was out of Middletown NY with the Valley Soaring Club.

Did anyone see the student glider flight on 60 minutes?

How do you interpret 61.113 (G) ? Could a 17 year old PVT SEL with the 61.69 endorsements get a job towing for a commercial tow operation? Hmmmm!

Uh, Oh! It's that time again, time for that ditzy bird and the 63rd Annual Harris Hill Snowbird Contest. Members and guests may participate, and the public can watch this fun contest highlighting precision landings and exact flight times. It happens November 25th and 26th this year, and is an...

I'm not able to get the cambridge igc file validator to run on my 64- bit windows (7) operating system, it used to run ok on a 32-bit computer. Anybody have an idea what I might try?

66 attempted a flight from the contest site of Caesar Creek, Ohio, USA back to his home field near St. Louis, Missouri, USA, a flight of about 250 miles. The report is...

66 attempted a flight from the contest site of Caesar Creek, Ohio, USA back to his home field near St. Louis, Missouri, USA, a flight of about 250 miles. The report is...

66 attempted a flight from the contest site of Caesar Creek, Ohio, USA back to his home field near St. Louis, Missouri, USA, a flight of about 250 miles. The report is...

How soon will WinPilot and SeeYou Mobile (or XCSoar) run on Android? I will buy one of the 7" Tablets when they add the Pixel Qi screen. http://www.gottabemobile.com/2010/09/20/pixel-qi-promises-7-inch-screens/

For soaring, this is it. New racing class? Why fly fast when you can fly slower. What's a rush anyway? Race slower, cover less ground, easier retrieve. Stalls at 31.4 km/h http://www.revilo-france.fr/avgauchesthil2.jpg http://www.revilo-france.fr/3vues.jpg

Very interesting article with Brian Seeley at Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency. See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35258761/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/ Michael

Man, what a pain in the ass at Mifflin. Returning on the back side of Jacks with weak ridge and no thermals, you leave the ridge at 1900-2000 because you *cannot* get higher and fly through a ton of sink (netto 4 - 6 kts down is common). The closest point of the ridge to the edge of the finish...

So what happened to the 70K+ altitude record? I sure hope it gets submitted to IGC. In order to deny the claim, they'll have to assert that the recorded GPS altitude has some validity. Once that door is opened there's an excellent, forced study of just how valid it is if it's used as the basis...

http://711reporting.blogspot.com/ Information on AMT's new Titan UAV 88 lb thrust engine. Also, seems to be alot of talk on the Club Class. Just my 2 cents, Club class should have its own scoring, but can still be run within the Sports Class Nationals, as their seeding scores will then come from...