Groupflights, a new Python program, now updates club/group web pages to show recent personal flight distance and speed improvements, recent top flights and all-time top flights. Updated daily from WeGlide, OnLineContest, and SkyLines. You can see a working example at...

Groupflights, a new Python program, now updates club/group web pages to show recent personal flight distance and speed improvements, recent top flights and all-time top flights. Updated daily from WeGlide, OnLineContest, and SkyLines. You can see a working example at...

Would you like to know when members of your club (or any other group) post flights? Groupflights is a free Python program that aggregates, publishes and archives glider flight information and tracks from WeGlide, OnLineContest and SkyLines, by name, for any group of pilots you're interested in. ...

Hi, we're starting our flights again after a summer break. If you're interested in OLC+ type flights on Condor and cooperative flying, join us at www.teamxc.us/about-us, and we can help you get started. We fly quite a few different sceneries, often with challenging conditions for realism (see...

After a lot of research last winter Utah Soaring Association switched our glider scheduling and communications (email) software to Pilot Schedule (pilotschedule.com). The support has been great ... they have added features we needed. The cost is less than we were paying before for our old...

I always thought sailplanes were white so the interior structure wouldn't overheat and approach the glass temperature of epoxy, about 190 F, and fail. And yet I see homebuilt aircraft of wood/epoxy structure painted all colors. So is it the gelcoat that the white color is protecting?

Is it feasible to add water to an ASW20 A that never had it? How expensive? Were they all designed for it?

We're looking for schematics for Cambridge CVS50 vario and audio unit. Anyone have them? Or are you interested in selling a similar working audio variometer?

What kind of mods to a glider force it to be reclassified as experimental? Does making your own winglets cross that line? What is process for getting it reclassified?

Hi, do any gliders have full-span flaperons that also act as airbrakes (say at 70-90 degree), or do you lose all aileron authority when the flaperons are that deflected?

Hi, I hear a lot about pitch sensitivity. Can that mean more than one thing? For example, it seems it could mean: 1. A glider in which smaller than typical stick movements are needed for pitch control 2. A glider in which the pitch stability is less, in that when perturbed from trimmed level...

Hi, in http://www.sailplanedirectory.com/ndxtype.htm, I see the notation "ATC" for some planes and some planes are described as EXP. Help me out here Thanks

Hi all. Just wondering if anyone else is having trouble renewing their xcskies account or is it just mine? Regards Brendon

Time to replace some yaw strings. Can anyone recommend a good way to remove old tape residue without doing violence to the canopies? Thanks, Mark -- B9

Some years ago I saw a magazine article (or reflector post) containing some advice on what seemed a very simple means for keeping everything absolutely straight in the spanwise direction when replacing mylar seals. For the life of me, I cannot now find that information (which I recall -- although...

Hi Pilots, I have a V2cxT that has the standard S-H disc brake that no longer works very well. I have been through the obvious fixes; pads, new fluid, bleed, etc. and haven't been able to bring it back up to original performance which was adequate but not stellar. I know a number of pilots have...

2010 Performance Soaring Seminar: UPDATE Everything is proceeding according to plan. The long-range forecast looks like the weather will be decent: good enough for a seminar, not good enough to go soaring! Everyone attending should have received an Evite and RSVP’d. If not, email me at...

Hello Pilots, I am pleased to announce the second annual spring soaring seminar to be held in Boulder, Colorado. It is entitled the 2010 Performance Soaring Seminar and Colorado Soaring Awards. It will be held on February 27, 2010, 9:00 – 5:00 MST at the National Center for Atmospheric Research...

Hi Pilots, My 2005 model Cobra trailer with AL top is for sale. 14" wheels, surge brake and other options. Excellent condition with NDH and low miles. It is currently configured for an 18m ship with 2 piece wings but can be refit to accommodate pretty much any 15m as well. Located in...

Hi Pilots, I have tried to contribute twice using the link from the site. It seemed to work fine except no smiley face and no charges to my credit card. Has anyone else had this problem? Solutions? Thanks, Bob