I just got my latest Soaring magazine and really liked the new centerfold shot. I hope they do this every month. Reminds me of the great shots by George Uveges and Alex Aldott in the 70's soaring magazines. Good Work Dennis and to the art director! Willie

Hi I downloaded a flight from my Clearnav vario with IGC logger for the first time. OLC says it is not a IGC file. Advice are welcome to solve this problem. Thank you.

Can you swap out the levers on Tost hooks? For example taking a standard lever off and replace it with a short lever. Or taking a short lever off and putting it on a hook with no lever

How does one communicate with OLC? I sent a service request days ago without a reply to date. ID and password does not work anymore; it has worked fine for months and AOK up until a week ago. Is membership account dependent on age of your "donation"?

Our club PW5 has a problem with the composite material detaching from the aluminum cap on the top of a dive brake (the part that makes the dive brake cap conform to the airfoil shape at that station). Has anybody had actual experience with this type of repair? I emailed the nearest shop and the...

About this time last year the gliding world, at least in print, was gaga over the Electric Tarus, and since then there has been total silence. What I read caught my fancy, and a friend in Durango, CO had one on order. But, before his ever came in, he was killed in the crash of a gas-powered...

I am planning on installing a Mountain High EDS O2 system in my glider. Anyone have a used one that they want/need to sell? I need a unit for a single place glider. Thanks in advance Ron Gleason

Well, we finally had a good day - maybe 3/4 of a full Parowan day - great lift, but very few clouds. Apparently the temps got a few degrees higher today, and the winds were fairly light out of the south. The task advisors knew we didn't want to go very far south, and we *definitely* did not want...

Cambridge L-Nav v5.7 Model 20 logger GPS Nav display 57mm vario in kts Capacity flask temp probe System is currently in service, with no known problems. $1500 complete

I need Winter vario, 80 mm and 10 kts scale and United altimeter 35000'. Please email with pricing. ASM

Hi, we have written a open source flight log softwa FluPP (http://flupp.sf.net). At the moment it is written in Delphi and only available in German. We plan to rebuilt FluPP2 from scratch. This time we use C# for better compatibility to Linux and Hand helds and there will be the...

It appears that I may be transferred to Amarillo from Houston about September or October. I'm wondering about the soaring group there. I know someone in the area and he said the soaring club had ceased to exist. He also said the group was trying to get a winch going in order to reform the club....

"Quilljar" wrote in message ... An interesting rant, this one. The guy is so inarticulate you end up not knowing what he is for or against...LOL -- Yours Quilly,

Like new 2006 chute rarely used for sale. $1200.00

Two, possibly three years ago, I read an article in one of the gliding mags detailing the attachment of a plexi or lexan sheet to the inside of a canopy, creating an air space which would be warmed by solar radiation thus preventing frost during cold-weather high-altitude flights. Trouble is,...

Where there is a statistics of record flights in Europe ?

How often should the mylar be redone on a horizontal stab/elevator? The glider is always stored indoors in its trailer,and everything looks fine with the factory installed tapes, etc. There is sometimes a quiet air sound that changes pitch with elevator deflection especially when cold.

I would like to use a Cambridge vario I have but it does not have the audio box AU... Does anybody have one they would sell? or have a schematic diagram which I could make one? Thank you

Does anyone know how much additional power the touch screen version uses? Clay Thomas

Episode #14 of The Thermal is now available at your favourite podcast provider. In this episode , we get an update on how one Canadian gliding club is dealing with the COVID pandemic and flying operations. (1 minute and 50 seconds into the show) In California, Jim Payne has been breaking records...