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Becker AR-3201 radio owners: check your batteries by sssarah
Hi group, Just a note to remind owners of older Becker AR3201 radios to check your internal nicad button cell batteries. These tend to leak after a few years, and if left too long will destroy your PC board ending the useful life of a pretty good radio! I found this green-crystal crud beginning...
May 24th 06 07:40 AM
by Michael Huber Go to last post
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I wish I'd never got into this... by Kevin Neave
The original question stated a glider doing 100kts with/without 100kgs of ballast. Ignoring the stalling speed for the moment, Does anyone out there think the pull-up takes more than 4 or 5 seconds? Does anyone out there think that the sink rate of the unballasted glider at 100kts is more than...
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September 19th 03 12:18 PM
by szd41a Go to last post
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Concealed Carry In MY ASW27 by Bob Youngblood
What a surprise, just today my son brought me a great gift to fight off the flaming liberals at the gliderport. It is a Bulgarian AK47 with 2000 rounds of ammunition. Thank god that I raised this kid correctly, educated him and he achieved the status of a Structural Engineer, PE. He advised me to...
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July 8th 20 11:32 PM
by CindyB[_2_] Go to last post
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Performance World Class design proposal by iPilot
I do not think that soaring community to trash current World Class. There are some gliders out there at least and there are competitions. And PW-5 seems to be a perfect glider for beginning pilots in clubs. But I still believe that although the idea of the monoclass is very good, the problem is...
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September 9th 04 09:11 PM
by Kirk Stant Go to last post
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Glider accident while filming commercial in 2011. NTSB Report updated by Steve Leonard[_2_]
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20111013X31821&ntsbno=WPR12FA010&akey=1 Happened to be looking through the NTSB Database and saw that they updated the report about a month ago.
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July 10th 13 04:30 AM
by flgliderpilot[_2_] Go to last post
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Proposed 2005 Rules On SRA Site by Ken Kochanski (KK)
http://sailplane-racing.org/ Ken Kochanski SRA Secretary
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January 27th 05 07:51 PM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Best Soaring Simulator?? by Gary Emerson
Greetings, Off season (northern hemisphere) is coming. What are the top 2-3 soaring simulators or is there a clear winner? Thanks, Gary
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June 15th 18 02:18 PM
by Scott Manley[_3_] Go to last post
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Refinishing: Who has tried a shortcut? by Ian Forbes
Hello All There has been quite a bit on refinishing on RAS recently. Most people advocate that when gel-coat starts cracking up, it is essential to remove it ALL. Does anybody out their own a ship which was refinished without removing all the gel-coat? What is the service history of these...
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December 26th 03 10:30 AM
by Phoebus_810 Go to last post
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Pre Takeoff Checklists by Tony[_5_]
Seems to me that it's been a while since we had a good brouhaha over pretakeoff checklists. Most of use use either ABBCCCDDE (or is it AABBCCDDE? Or ABBBCCCCDDEEFG?) or CBSIFTCB or some other variant. I'm curious what you use and WHY? What have you added or subtracted to the "base" checklist to...
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March 26th 10 03:56 PM
by mattm[_2_] Go to last post
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Devices for avoiding VNE? by John Galloway
Through the contributions to the avoiding VNE thread runs the theme of the difficulty of avoiding overspeeding and/or overstressing some modern designs in accidental spin recovery. This is made more difficult than in older composite gliders because they had a little more drag and a little more...
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April 12th 04 08:53 PM
by Andreas Maurer Go to last post
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Motorgliders (long) by JJ Sinclair
There are several questions concerning motorgliders on this years SSA / SRA pilot poll. Some of the questions may have been spurred by my letter dated 7/11 03 which follows Members of the rules committee, A few years back, we allowed motorgliders to have their engines...
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October 9th 03 10:11 PM
by Eric Greenwell Go to last post
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Soaring in Portugal by Peter Kelemen
I am going to be in Portugal from September 2 until September 17. It would be great to be able to visit a soaring site and even better to be able to fly. I speak Spanish and understand Portuguese some time... Any information would be most welcome. Peter Kelemen
October 3rd 11 10:21 PM
by Charles I. Johnson Go to last post
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HOW MANY GLIDER PILOTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB by Mal
One to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed. Fourteen to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently. Seven to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs. Seven more to point out...
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October 4th 05 05:39 AM
by 309 Go to last post
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LAK-12 Question by Doug Hoffman
I have noticed over the years that this glider sells for what seems to be a very low price given that it is a near 50:1 glider. But I notice lately that there are also some for sale on Wings & Wheels with relatively low total time: 320 hours $21k 260 hours $20k 200 hours $15k Other than the...
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May 16th 07 03:50 AM
by kirk.stant Go to last post
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FLARM by Robert Hart
Hi This summer season in Australia has seen our first use of FLARM anti-collision system for gliders. http://www.flarm.com/index_en.html and http://www.rf-developments.com/page008.html (the local manufacturer for Australia) It would seem that FLARM is becoming very rapidly accepted here in
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March 17th 06 12:20 AM
by Robert Hart Go to last post
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Polar Analysis from flight logs? by Mark Zivley
We all know what the manufacturer's polars look like, but what about our individual planes. Has anyone done any work to develop a program that would look at some flight logs and determine what a particular glider's actual polar is? At one point Ball was making a vario system that would determine...
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January 13th 05 01:34 AM
by Eric Greenwell Go to last post
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Refinishing Ventus b Fuselage by Richard Pfiffner[_2_]
Pictures and process for refinishing a ventus b fuselage. Work in progress pictures and process as work is completed. http://www.craggyaero.com/ventus.htm Richard www.craggyaero.com
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December 31st 18 03:03 PM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Flying with Parachutes by John Huthmaker
I'm just starting out with soaring. Simple question for you guys. How many of you fly with an emergency parachute? It looks like they cost around $2000 online. Pretty steep price; although the cost is insignificant if it saves your life. Is this something I should be looking to purchase?
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February 18th 21 10:26 PM
by b4soaring Go to last post
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Using Plasma Rope For Winch Tows by Craig Freeman
We recently converted from 3/16 7x9 cable to 3/16 plasma rope on our winch. "Plasma", made from Honeywell "Spectra" fiber, seems to have some real advantages over wire or cable. Some benifits include light weight, 11.48lbs per thousand, (that's not much even converted to metric!!), hollow braid (no...
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August 24th 03 10:55 PM
by Andreas Maurer Go to last post
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Komet trailer tires by Robin
I want to replace the tires on my Komet trailer. The original tire size is P165/80 R13, which is now hard to find. The choice seems to be either a Firestone passenger car radial in the correct size or a slightly taller Towmaster made by Greenball. The trailer tire will have a taller but stiffer...
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February 27th 10 06:27 PM
by Craig[_2_] Go to last post
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