I hadn't heard of vacuum drying electronics after water submersion - interesting - hadn't thought of that. With any electronic device that gets water dunked, it's important to remove batteries as soon as possible. This will help prevent corrosion due to electrolysis of circuit board traces and...

SSA Regional Webinar - Black Forest Soaring Society - Cross Country Prep Ground School Series Friday April , 2021. 7 p.m. MDT Model Based Weather Forecasting - using NOAA weather models, BlipMap and RASP tools. Examples Using the Colorado Front Range RASP Tool. Presenter: Dave Rolley ...

My good friend and Hawke Tracking LLC partner asked me to post the contest SPOT tracking links for the Moriarty super-regional race, so how could I refuse. Google Maps - http://www.hawketracking.org/moriarty/files/tracking.htm Google Maps Large -...

Report is now available at the SSA site or at SoaringCafe.NET TA

Hi, I tried downloading my first flight of the 2011 season from my LX20 (old hardware version). SeeYou connects fine, but after about a minute, it says that there was an error communicating, error code -14. I tried with 3 different computers, one with a serial port (not going through a...

Looking to buy a good, modern VHF radio suitable for gliders. MGL V10 would be nice, or a FL-760 or Microair M760. Btw, any experience on the MGL V10? It sounds good (I like digital!), but I'm not sure about the user interface.

Final results of the 2010 Gauteng Regionals are now available at http://www.sssa.org.za Zulu-Alpha - are you reading this?

It’s spring! Let the soaring season begin. We call this “The Silly Season,” when otherwise safe, competent pilots do the dumbest things often resulting in accidents. Glider clubs and commercial operations around the country conduct spring safety seminars to help pilots get their head in the game...

Paging Wayne Paul. Wayne Paul of Nampa, ID. Would Wayne Paul please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone. Or maybe just email me at -- Frank Stutzman Bonanza N494B "Hula Girl" Boise, ID

Our club is repainting/recovering the ailerons, wings and horizontal tail of our 1999 Blanik L23. Our supervising A&P and I are stymied in the disassembly of the horizontal tail. The trim tab cable runs from a rocker arm near the forward horizontal tail attachement point through the stab and...

Two-seater performances compared using Carl Herold's figures: Handicaps L/D Max Grob Twin 1.155 35 ASK21 1.180 35 PW-6U 1.190 34 Puchacz 1.287 32 Peregrine (Krosno) 1.370 26 Ka7 1.490 26

I'm pondering the notion of hiring someone to be a dedicated retrieve crew for days when I'm planning on going XC. I was thinking maybe a HS senior or perhaps college student. Hourly rate would be paid and any expenses covered related to the task. If I'm not headed too far out, they could...

One thing that you should be careful of is comparing the Diana with the Diana 2 as far as wing location. The leading edge at the wing root was moved forward from the Diana to the Diana 2. This was most likely due to the overall shift in the wing planform. On the Diana, the leading edge is more...

I have scanned in some of the smaller pictures from the article, and put them on my site. Still working on the...

http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/nswstateglidingcomps/ Were will the NSW state comps be this year ? Narromine ? Narromine is happy to have the comps the problem is people to run it as Narromine club is small club. There are three operations to work with lets hope this can be done.

From the perspective a a GM operator, my 1985 V-6 Camaro has had three fuel pumps put into it. It died once at work and kept me from going to a dentist appointment, and the other two have been at home. Vehicle currently has 287K on it, and it is still my daily driver after 20 years of my...

at http://www.asa-soaring.org/2006region9.asp. If you're attending the contest but did not receive the e-mail please let me know! ~ted/2NO/CO

Does anyone know an internet link from which to download an English version of the Janus B Flight Manual? or a copy they could e-mail me? Regards Christopher Thorpe

Just watched the PBS Nova program "Mystery of the Megaflood". Fascinating program, and the landscape left behind in Eastern Washington state is beautiful and somewhat bizarre. Is it easy or safe to fly cross country over the "scabland" features? Are these sights reachable from Ephrata? See the...

I was at IVSM last weekend...unfortunately couldn't stay longer, but this is again a great event and if you get a chance to go well worth the time spent.....I've added a few images of the event (quickly) and will add more if anyone has images or comments they too would like to share.... please look...