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We want to install a tow hitch on a recently acquired Husky in preparation for the contest season. Is a Tost hitch required or preferred for SSA sanctioned events? Is the venerable Schweitzer hitch still OK ? If so, for how long? Tost is the standard in Europe. Is the US moving toward that...

What are the best procedures and materials for painting the fiberglass top on a Komet trailer? Prep? Primer? Urethane? Epoxy? Auto body shop? Aircraft paint shop?

Does anyone have polar info for a HP-18? Thanks jim

In his book Gliding, p100, Derek Piggott writes: "In most modern gliders, the elevator power is not adequate to pull the wing beyond the stalling angle in a steep bank and it is only just possible to reach the pre-stall buffet with the stick right back. This is very different from straight flight...

I've read archived RAS threads; Terry Joint used to arrange Euro purchases for U.S. delivery back in 2002. His e-mail is broken now. The USD keeps declining & registration & shipping costs both in $$ & time might make this route undesirable.Yet? I'm looking for a first glass ship with an XL sized...

Thanks to all KA-6 pilots responding to my earlier question. Wayne Paul has kindly sent links to HP websites, suggesting the HP-18 as an affordable option for the economically-minded flyer. Compared to the wooden KA-6, the HP-18 has a larger cockpit, is made of metal, structural foam, composite &...

I'm looking for an inexpensive sailplane & see a few KA 6CR's for sale, all including enclosed trailer for around $7,000. A 1-26 would have been OK, but there aren't any right now. I'm not sure I'd fit in a KA 6 at 6'3" & over 200 lb. Also; how about maintaining a wooden sailplane? Does one need to...

Anybody have a clue what effect the SSA tax/financial crisis may have on the February Memphis convention.

Many descriptions have been posted here in several threads on spinning over the last couple of weeks and I have found all of them to be fascinating. I've been prompted to think through again my own understanding of the stall and the spin in gliders. One description that has been strongly asserted...

I think the recent threads on spinning have been wonderful. I find them a great help to focusing on such an important issue. Somewhere in my dark student-pilot experiences I was shown that coordinated flight, with the yaw string kept carefully in the middle, does not guarantee against spin entry....

Still thinking about VNE and whether it is usually stated as a TAS rather than an IAS (one must read the POH to be sure, of course). I've gotten the notion, probably from comments I've not understood very well, that the "coffin corner" is the intersection of stall speed as an IAS indication on the...

I came across Dr Jack's BLIPMAP forecast page http://www.drjack.net/BLIPMAP/NE/index.html Probably a lot of good information if you know how to use it (and some very pretty maps), but also not exactly intuitive and slightly overwhelming. Anybody find good use of this material, and in an orderly...

I would like to hear what other glider pilots have found to be helpful in trying to center thermals. It is common in gliding books to read that a constant diameter circle, as a product of flying a constant airspeed and a constant bank, is important in centering thermals. If the airspeed and / or...

Before I buy a new one, I'm wondering if anyone has one in good condition for our Kestrel. We have the mount, the housing (yes, the actual compass) shattered and I found it on the cockpit floor. Yes, possibly an overfill issue, read about that on here recently. The glider came from a...

Is anyone driving their SN-10b with an EW flight recorder? I'd like to go with this combination, and possibly add a PDA as well. I think I want it because it allows me to not bring a laptop to the airport, I have a partner and we can each have our own SD card and don't have to hassle with...

I'm looking for this exact model. My FSG 71M is going to the shop for repair. I'm foreseeing that it is going to take too long and I'd rather not fly all season with my handheld waiting for it to be repaired. I want to be able to plug and play, i.e. use the same connections and mic that are...

Presumably somebody came and picked up the Ventus 2 that I was flying? It was parked outside the fence, on a public street, at my local airport for the last few weeks. Some notice would have been appreciated, the conditions were quite good the other day and I had a badge flight planned

I went to a popular western US tire shop and they quoted me $175 for two 13" tires. I didn't buy them. Surely I can get good tires for less than that somewhere? If so please specify brand and type. I do drag the glider a couple thousand miles each summer so I don't want cheapest, just good...