Save the date(s)!!! The 2016 Canadian National Soaring Championships will be hosted at York Soaring Association. York Soaring is located 1.5hours NW of Toronto, ON. Our field supports room for a limited number of RV's, nearly unlimited camping potential a modern club house, showers, ample...

U.S. Team Day Reports - Day 1 & NCD Today, July 28, was a no contest day for competitors attending the 28th World Gliding Championships in Poland. Read all the reports on the SSA U.S. Team Web site direct from Team Captain John Good in Poland. See the links below for the U.S. Team...

Hi, I'm planning to attend a mountain flying course at CNVV in St. Auban in June, and I'm trying to get answers to a couple of questions from others who have flown there. First, I speak only enough French to mangle a dinner order. How much of an obstacle is that likely to be both for flight...

Anyone know the dates and locations for these 2004 U.S. contests? 18m nationals 15m nationals sports class nationals

I was reviewing some contest flights from 2008 and it occurred to me that there hadn't been a thorough review of people's experience with the new "start anywhere" rule - which measures distance on the first leg from a start from anywhere along the boundries of the start cylinder. I general I...

I am trying to locate a copy of Disney's 1967 TV classic, "The Boy Who Flew With Condors". Best I can tell, the show has never been released on DVD or VHS, but I suspect someone somewhere has a copy, probably taped off the air. Please contact me if you have one, or know someone who does. I...

I recently bought a 1972 ASW-15B. I am on a budget to fix this up. I'm looking for stuff that works, doesn't look flashly, but fits the need. I need a: 1. GPS data logger thats contest worthy 2. PDA device and connections

Why don't people in SRA and SSA get the message about contest safety? A unnecessary loss of life because the FINISH GATE was used and not a FINISH CYLINDER. Charlie Spratt and the top racing pilots want the finish gate at contests because it is so exciting! All the near misses in the pull ups and...

I am looking for a source for a replacement bottle jack for a cobra trailer ramp (yes, I know I should switch to the mechanical jack and all problems will go away, but I don't want to go down that route yet). The Torin 2-ton jack that Walmart and Autozone sell is extremely poorly built, in addition...

My club is buying a K-21 for student training and I am wondering if a tail dolly is necessary for ground handling? We plan to get the tail wheel option - not the tail skid. Does the K21 balance like the Twin Astir so it is easy to turn on the ground when towing it back to the launch point? When...

I know there have posts regarding the OLC. Perhaps I missed this topic. Anyone know how to navigate the new OLC? All I can get is OLC Worldwide, I can't seem to make it display just North America. Any tricks? Also seem to have a lot of trouble with the calendar. I have to go back and forward to...

Video flying down the Marble Mountains from Wright to Carter Turnpoints. Montageue, CA Soaring Site. I have approximatley 20 flight hours on the Butterfly vario. It is a very nice instrument. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i0IVkHUnWU The Butterfly provides power to a PowerFlarm Brick, the...

Does anyone on this forum currently own/fly and American Falcon or Spirit? I am keen to talk with you. Please send me an email off the forum ) or give me a call 250-792-4850. Thanks, Andrew Doepner

An external display is optonally bundled with the "blind" PowerFLARM. Early reports seemed to indicate that it would be a Butterfly panel mounted display. Now other sources seem to show it is a stalk mounted unit that is not compatible with a standard instrument hole. Is the bundled display...

I've uploaded version 1.1 of GammaFV to: http://www.carrotworks.com/ GammaFV is a simple Mac OS X IGC file viewer that plots the geographic trace of a flight onto a terrain, satellite or road map. Version 1.1 can now colour the trace with vertical speed data. Vertical speed colouring might be a...

The majority of clubs and FBO's in Region 11 have gone to a mandatory radio policy after the recent midair where the tow plane and glider collided turning final. The tow plane was not radio equipped and therefore didn't know (hear) that the glider was turning final from the other direction. That...

In his article on avoiding PIO in Grob 103's, http://www.soaringsafety.org/pilots/ic8.htm Dean Carswell writes, "the more the airbrakes are closed, the less pitch stability the Grob will have, making a PIO more likely if otherwise mishandled" Is there a simple explanation why opening the...

I've agreed to make a 20-30 minute presentation to the local Kiwanis group about soaring. I'm hoping someone has a suitable Powerpoint presentation they can email me, so I can adapt it to our local situation without having to start from scratch. That should be a lot quicker and easier than coming...

Hi guys I'm looking for a motorglider for a friend. He wants something like an SF25C with the L:imbach 1700EA or an SF28 Tandem Falke. We're quite prepared to look at something that needs some repair work. Thanks

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:57:51 GMT, "Malcolm Austin" wrote: Hi, due to the current UK problems with flying K7's we have resurrected our Capstan. Having had a first flight in it today I'm surprised at how good it was. Yes of course it's wooden and doesn't...