It is a classic wing from a classic glider design by a classic glider designer. It has a slightly larger wing area than some more recent designs and should carry the extra weight of a motor glider well. It is well behaved and benign in its flying and stalling characteristics and also tolerates...

True - but even on dull days in Scotland I have never once in 27 seasons found sunglasses off to be preferrable to sunglasses on in a glider. The light reduction from a tinted canopy is a fraction of that from the average sunglasses. They just look dark from the outside because the observer is...

I have a vague recollection that a while back someone mentioned in passing that their club used a little drougue chute near the glider end of the aerotow rope to fly the rings higher during approach and landing. Does that ring any bells? If so I would appreciate some information - or did I just...

I would be interested to hear if anyone has any knowledge or experience of the above static/TE double probe as shown on the esa-systems web site by following the links to 'multisonden' and then STATEK: http://www.esa-systems.com/ It features the unusual flat Ilec 'Stats' static design which is...

All you SeeYou users have probably been doing this already but just in case: Lets say another SeeYou user with satellite raster maps asks you what its like to fly from X site (which preferably has a bit of terrain around it). Send him the IGC file of your most relevant flight from there. He runs...

I would be interested to make contact with anyone who has an order placed for this type or who has been enquiring about doing so. Thanks. (The header email address is not functional)

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...

So, as I understand it, the current situation with the Open Glider Network is that: It relies on tracking Flarm collision data against Flarm's wishes. It relies on using the Flarmnet database (which is encoded so that the database can't be downlosded and be easily human readable) against their...

So, as I understand it, the current situation with the Open Glider Network is that: It relies on tracking Flarm collision data against Flarm's wishes. It relies on using the Flarmnet database (which is encoded so that the database can't be downlosded and be easily human readable) against their...

So, as I understand it, the current situation with the Open Glider Network is that: It relies on tracking Flarm collision data against Flarm's wishes. It relies on using the Flarmnet database (which is encoded so that the database can't be downlosded and be easily human readable) against their...

Tailplane mounted video cams show fin mounted TE probes to be bouncing and jiggling up and down during flight. Do we have any information to indicate whether this affects their performance? John Galloway

An excellent article by Pete Harvey regarding flying the Antares 23 at Uvalde WGC includes the following: "One of the most surprising factors was the Lange total energy system. In Texas, the thermals were fast bubbles of strong lift - fast, but very small. With our high cruise speeds, it was...

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Anyone seen or using an LX Map in a glider - or is it just too big? John Galloway

Ipaqs batteries run down pretty quickly even when switched off. If I unlock an hx4700 battery without removing it (by flicking the left hand battery lock switch on the base of the unit to the right) then unit seem to switch off fully allowing the main battery to stay charged. The back-up battery...

Anyone have a Maintenance Manual for a Genave Alpha 100 Transceiver they would be willing to sell me please ? Probably email me direct rather than clutter up ras. TIA Regards, John G. -- John Giddy 5/287 Barkers Rd Kew, Vic. 3101 Australia

Hi all, We have a couple of old Genave Apha 10 radios in our training Blaniks which are giving some trouble, and are getting harder to fix due to difficulty of sourcing some of the components these days. Rather than change the whole radio installation, I am wondering if there are a couple of these...

Hi Guys, I seem to remember that there was some discussion here a few years ago about problems with the internal battery in Becker VHF Transceivers going flat, and the radio subsequently losing stored frequencies and other information. A friend of mine has a Becker radio, which is starting to show...

"Paul Remde" wrote in message news:qrv9b.468279$o%2.208652@sccrnsc02... | Hi, | | I have just received a new product for owners of 2 seat gliders. The | product allows 2 Pocket PCs to be connected to a single GPS. The unit also | supplies 5V power to both Pocket PCs. Details...

"Jim Culp" wrote in message ... | Does anyone have a polar curve for the Blanik L-13 | with the Fowler flaps out? | I found several 'normal' polars on the web, but none | for the flaps out. | Background for this question is...