The results of the 2011 Competition Pilots' Opinion Poll and the Minutes of the 2011 Competition Rules Committee Meeting are now posted on the SSA website at http://www.ssa.org/myhome.asp?mbr=6310235857 Please also read the Contestant Liability Insurance requirements document also. For the...

The 2011 Pilot Opinion Poll and the 2011 Election for the Rules Committee are open through October 19th and can be accessed at http://www.adamsfive.com/soaring/survey/surveys.php The poll and election are open to SSA members on the US Pilot Ranking List. We solicit, appreciate and encourage your...

In a remarkably close election, Bill Elliott has been elected a member of the US Team Committee, replacing Sam Zimmerman when his term is up at the end of the year. We thank SZ for his wisdom, perspective and work over the years of his service to the Committee, welcome Bill as an energetic and...

The SSA Competition Committee is offering any qualified USA Junior pilot a rebate of 90% of their contest fees for a sanctioned Regional or National contest during the 2013 season. There is a limit of one rebate per pilot. Download the application form here. For the committee, John Godfrey (QT)

The election for a member of the US Rules Committee and the annual pilot opinion poll is now open. Pilots on the US seeding list (i.e. have flown a contest in the last 3 years) are eligible to vote/participate. Access the ballot and survey at...

All, The proposed rules changes summary for the 2014 season (and one important change planned for 2015) have been posted in the Rules and Process section of the SSA website. The comment period ends on Saturday January 18. Send comments to quebec dot tango at gmail dot com Although the changes...

All USA Competition Pilots, The annual pilot poll and Rules Committee election is now open. Please take a few minutes to get your two cents in. If you have flown in a USA contest in the last 3 seasons you are eligible to vote. If you are unable to access the survey please contact me so we can...

I took advantage of Burt's offer and completed my Commercial Glider Pilot addon in Dec. 2013 at Marfa, Texas. Burt runs a first class operation with an emphasis on safety. I had completed all my solo flights in a SGS 2-33 and 1-26 at my home glider port Cedar Valley Airport, Eagle Mountain, UT...

Glider tows will be available most every day during the month of July. Especially with prior notice. Please contact John Gonthier for more information and scheduling. 435-640-3978

Hey, someone posted a link to a google forum that dealt with SH Arcus issues. I have a google account, but seem unable to join or post comments. Thanks

This is a set (one left, one right) of Type 1637 wheel hubs made by Al-Ko Kober for a Cobra trailer. These are the type with 4 lug bolts, rated at 500 kg each, as used on most Cobra trailers set up for 15-meter-span gliders. Photos he...

At around 12:54 today, Thomas Johnson (V12 - MiniNumbus) was injured in a takeoff groundloop accident. He was airlifted to an Orlando hospital, where he'll be met by his wife. Emergency medical personnel were pleased with his vital signs and cautiously optimistic about his prospects for...

Does anybody have a PDF version of the L13 Maintenance Manual that they could send me? Thanks

Any Jantar experts out there? What the difference between an SZD-48-1 and SZD? I don't really know that much about these aircraft. At the moment I'm trying to help resolve an issue with play in the ailerons on a glider that is suppost to be an SZD-48-1. One of the control rods has a lot of wear...

Does anybody know of a online booking software\website made specific for gliding clubs? Thanks john

Has anyone found more details on AD 2007-08-07? To wit finding Lavia SA Service Bulletin No. 25/53/03, dated May 10, 2006?

Here's a plug for the "Youth in Soaring" booth, #218 in the Grandhall (Hall B), reserved by the Kolstad committee (http://home.att.net/~midlk/klsthmpg.htm). "College", "Junior", and "Junior Team" shirts will be for sale with tax-deductible donations gratefully accepted. If you run a youth program,...

Happy birthday, soaring. The "first" soaring flight was the 9 minutes and 45 seconds of hovering over Kitty Hawk dunes by Orville Wright, in the Wright "No. 5" glider on October 24, 1911. This was no milestone on the way to powered flight, "started" on December 17, 1903 (by Orville also,...

From the youth presentation, keep in mind that our junior pilots would like to be known as PILOTS, rather than 'the kids'. Kevin Christner is an instructor after all... Thanks to Kevin...and Sylvia... for presenting... ... uh, we all start as kids (Mark Keene spoke of gliderport visits at...

Thanks to Mountain High Oxygen Equipment & Supplies, who sponsored the Junior Team in 2003 as well as 2001, we have a miniature Oxygen system to offer, see www.mhoxygen.com/index.phtml?nav_id=28&product_id=390 As a back-up, this is more compact than the old military "bailout bottle" systems...