I've been using a 20 AH LiFePO4 battery as a backup in the Stemme. It's portable and secured behind the passenger seat.Â* I charge it outside of the aircraft.Â* When used, it is connected through an DPST switch (only one half used) and switches the tail battery out of the system as it's...

So, I am well aware of the drag chutes supplied by Walter Kostelezky, K.G. of Germany. I am aware of the rings and swivels at the connection to the aircraft, and that the aircraft end is a release somewhat resembling a Tost style release. But, I have a plane that has a different sort of interface...

Did anyone else notice that cool as hell paintjob on that ASG32Mi For Sale on Wings and Wheels? That is Nice. I'd love for my plane to look like THAT! Plain white is so boring.

Here's a towpilot's take on a regional contest... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVw8sJ9nhog Jordan ASW20 E

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Everyone who wants an email reply to a thread couches his address as follows: My initials plus my last name (commercial "at" sign) and a period with that google thingy type email extension. Is in only because I use Thunderbird as my news feed reader, because I can see your email in the "From"...

(US) rule 11.1.1 states; A valid competition day is one in which every regular entrant is given a fair opportunity to compete. What is the definition of fair? I can tell you what I have used as CD in 3 nationals and several regionals over the last 35 years. The launch should go without interuption....

LNav Version 5.7 with 2.25" vario.-$475.00 (upgrade to 5.8 is $75.00). Terra 240D Transponder with alt. encoder. Yellow tagged two years ago and used for about 250 hours since- $650.00 Winter 5 STV 5-3 vario-$350.00 contact mike_carris at yahoo dot com.

a.. Flaps or no? (I'll be flying mostly in Arizona, more x-country than local.) b.. Opinions on the Rigging Innovations P-124 emergency parachute system? (Yes, I know it's a ram-air parachute. I have much more experience on that kind of glider.) Mostly looking for feedback on comfort compared to...

A short while ago my daughter was considering joining a local Civil Air Patrol chapter, while attending the meetings with her I began to be interested in Gliding. I'm in NJ. If someone could help me with a few basic questions, I'd really appreciate it: 1. What is the average ground speed of a...

A few notes from this pilot's vantage: http://www.nadler.com/public/uvalde2004.html Enjoy ! Best Regards, Dave

In case you get bored, there's a few pics you can have a gander at, over he http://x9jep.smugmug.com/gallery - including some from the recent Danish Nationals.... /J

Tuesday April 4 produced 9 great flights from the State College, PA area totaling 9109.7km. There were 5 flights over 1000km including 3 1000km triangles by Richard Kellerman, John Seymour and John Good and an 1191km broken-leg by Karl Striedieck (new USA open class multi place O/R record -1130km)....

I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on this video. http://www.geovisiononline.com/fineweek/ http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING/AFineWeekOfSoaring.pdf Disclaimer: Since we are members of the same soaring club, I'm personally aquainted with the production staff. However, I'm...

We had a wonderful premiere of A FINE WEEK OF SOARING at the SSA convention. Featuring stunning photography and an exciting storyline, the film gives an insider’s view of the Mifflin, PA regional contest from the back seat of a Duo Discus, with 15-time national champion Karl Striedieck at the...

Last December I reported in this forum that I was starting a project to extract airspace information from the National Airspace Resource Files (NASR) published by the National Flight Data Center, and to translate that information into file formats commonly used in the sport aviation community (such...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyoaizNimo

Hi Gang After 10 years of good soaring in my Stemme S10-VT I have finally decided to sell her. What were the highlights? Well I think the longest and most difficult flight was a return soar from Parowan to Minden with a 25 knot headwind in near blue sky conditions - I got as low as 2,000 feet agi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDIV5xKku5g&feature=youtu.be

What would you have thought, had you seen the following posted on April 1st? A low time pilot (we'll call him Alpha Omega) launches with a dozen other pilots in the first day of the group's annual contest series. AO has very little, if any, x/c experience, and only recently bought the glider. The...