Help. I am at that age. I wear contacts for distance vision but now my arms are getting too short also. Causing headaches and queasiness when trying to read my instruments, especially the PDA. I would like to hear back from others on what decision they made on progressive vs. lined lenses...

Hello ;) I'm about to start refinishing a Discus.Searching through this and other forums I've noticed people are leaning towards polyurethane and away from gelcoat.Gelcoat seems to be much easier in my situation, since I don't have a spray booth and they don't recommend sanding poly after you've...

Come on now, what where some of the highlights from this year's convention for those of us stuck at home for various reasons. With no convention next year, there should have been a lot of "new" stuff. Usually RAS is full of post-convention Some information I would love to hear about would...

Below is a pre-amble to a new yahoo group I have started to discuss thermals. I would ask all interested gliding pilots to join in and learn, or teach. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thermal_truth/ Ok, we know the shapes, triggers, the sizes, the volumes, the heights, the strengths, the distances...

Any aerodynamic thoughts on the two available choices? My ASH-26E came with the stub mounted just behind the wheel. Every now and then it catches on the trailer, so I just straighten it, no big deal. An ASW-24B in our club is about to get a transponder and the factory recommends the installation...

I am in the process of designing the instrument panel/layout for my HP-24. Still a ways to go before I will need it, but it is raining out and my CAD program is running and so is my imagination..........so.............I was reading about the new Tasman Data Module on Paul R's website and see that...

What happens if we handicap pilots instead of aircraft..... Have a handicap card for each pilot airplane combination. If I can consistantly get 50% of the possible points earned by the days winner, I would get a series of normalization factors (2.00) that over time would reflect my...

Simple question (for everyone but me!): Is the CFI endorsement to take a private pilot test for a specific category (e.g. airplane, rotorcraft, glider) or a category and class (e.g. airplane, single engine land) or some other classsification (e.g. fixed-wing), or not category or class...

I've dispatched this question to the dealer and factory, but need to troule-shoot quick so trolling here. I have a 2008 Schleicher ASG29 with confused instruments following some repair work. My question is, in its factory configuration, are the three lines from the multi-probe free of joints,...

Parowan, thinking outside the box - An opportunity knocks! Is it just me? With the obvious decline of soaring participants in our sport shouldn't we really consider this a "good problem" to have, let me see if I have this right: "Way more Pilots want to race, not just fly but race with their...

On Oct 6, 11:04 pm, Andreas Maurer wrote: No member in my club pays more than 600$ per year for gliding, all costs included. Lots of young people, too. Bye Andreas I'll bite. How does you club make that work? If we paid the same, we'd cover barely a third of the...

I am one of those people with ongoing intermittent landing problems. I have good patches - managed to get solo recently - and then bad patches. The bad patches probably co-incide with forgetting to look up as I start the round-out, so there is no hold-off and a rather heavy landing, sometimes...

Was hoping someone could help me identify a raptor. I was working in my shop the other day, the door was open and I was waxing the Glidair plug.....getting it ready to start laying up mold side 2. Suddenly a bird flew right through the doorway, swooped right over my head........and crashed into the...

The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has recently published a report on a fatal accident involving a DG600 sailplane back in 2005. The circumstances were that the DG600 took a winch launch, and rotated into an unusually steep climb after lift off. This was enough to slow down a slightly...

Is anyone else having problems logging in to the OLC -- Mal www.mals.net

My Cobra trailer is difficult to open and close in colder weather. It seems to be with the struts. Any suggestions? Thanks, Bob

An eye opener: http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_bca_story.jsp?id=news/bca0107c.xml We are mentioned there as well: "Most recently, a Hawker 800XP descending into Reno collided with a Schleicher ASW-27 sailplane near Minden, Nev., a popular soaring location. Somewhat miraculously the...

Hello all, I plan to fly in my first contest this summer. What is the best (easiest) way to transfer my IGC flight log to the scorer? I use a Cambridge 302 and IPAQ 3955. For the OLC, I download the file to my IPAQ using ConnectMe and the take the IPAQ home and connect it to my PC and then...

I would like to fly more cross country flights but have to admit I usually come up with a list of excuses for not going on any particular day. The weather is never good enough, or I have a dinner engagement, or my battery seems low, or something. Some of this is a general concern about personal...

Needing a replacment, my transponder shop told me that above 15k' the FAR's require a 250 watt transponder (125w below 15k'). True? I'm pretty sure that sailplane owners are mostly installing 175 watt units and flying them to 18k' (and higher in wave windows). Right? If this 15k' rule is real,...