Hi! We are trying to get new two seater from various funds for our club. Most of the funds force to buy new glider. Can you please help us a little bit with market research and suggest low budget two seater? Thank you all!

He sure looks like he is flying fast enough that a stall wouldn't have occurred. Something break? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xCct8cDtyk

Hi, I'd like to hear about the people who were able to compare the performance of an LS-4 with an ASW-20 in weak, average and/or strong conditions. Which climbs best? Which glides best? By what kind of advantage (is one glider really better than the other, or just average?) Overall, which is the...

There has been a lot of talk over the past several months about FLARM and PowerFLARM coming to the US. Unfortunately, there has been not enough information about these systems to support an informed discussion. John Cochrane and I both flew with Classic FLARM units in Hungary this summer at the...

At sunrise on 17 February, we are planning on launching in the Duo Discus glider from Minden at sunrise and aiming for Rapid City, SD as our goal, a distance of over 933 miles. Below is a link to the map with our position updates every 5 minutes. If you'd like to see the details of our position,...

Hi Folks, Two questions 1) Anyone out there know how to check the alignment of winglets that have been retrofitted to a Discus (CS if it makes any difference)? I believe this is fairly critical & if it's wrong then I'm better off flying with the 'normal' tips

Looking for Wedekind Sleeves for 1985 DG 400. Anyone have any leads? Thanks, Kevin Anderson 92

Has anyone every sold a glider without the buyer looking at it? I have my glider listed for sell and the guy is buying without looking at it and sending a cashiers check and arranging shipping....sound familiar. Casey

Does anyone have experience flying the Apis MC motorglider? What are its performance and handling like? Any problems to watch out for? Thanks, Key

I have a question for you CFIG's out the I recently moved to a "flat" state from a "mountainous" state and noticed that every glider pilot I have met and flown with in the "flat" state sets his altimeter to zero (a QFE setting) instead of field elevation. Back in my old stomping grounds, all...

Apart from the very sweet looking 17.6 m tips and tail ballast what are the other differences between the Ventus B and the Ventus C. Does the C have the same long cockpit as the B ? I believe the C handles a lot better. Ian

do they fall out of the sky when they get wet?

Discus CS 1998, winglets, 116 hours. Immaculate. $64,000. Cobra metal trailer w/ 2 wingstands, Security 150 Parachute, Cambridge GPS - LNAV, Cambridge Vario, Sage Vario, Microair 760 Radio w/ Boom Mike, EDS 02 w/steel bottle, Altimeter, ASI. .

I need advice about the best choice of batteries for an asg 29e. lithium ion would be outside manufacturer's remit and the insurer's plus too many risks-the fuel tank is directly above the battery housings. I would like something with at least 9 amp hours, whether gel cell or mh.

Congrats to SZD for making 5000 gliders. That's a bunch. How many years did it take. What is their production rate and how does it compare with Western European (German) factories? Must be a high percentage of training gliders? Any military? I have owned German gliders with serial numbers in the...

I would like to hear what other glider pilots have found to be helpful in trying to center thermals. It is common in gliding books to read that a constant diameter circle, as a product of flying a constant airspeed and a constant bank, is important in centering thermals. If the airspeed and / or...

I'm looking at adding a commercial glider rating this summer. Never been in a glider, but my hunch is that it will be a good learning experience even though I'll never fly one for hire. So ... trying to divine the meaning of Part 61.129(f)2 "20 flights in a glider as PIC" and "5 solo...

The Diana 2, a new high-end 15m class ship designed by mr Bogumil Beres, has flown its maiden flight, guided by the hand of a test pilot mr Mariusz Stajewski. Today's test flights totalled at four flights and have been considered very succesful. Any enquiries about the details could be asked using...

Currently the club that I am part of don't seem to be too concerned about the safety aspects of using the correct weak links for winch launching and I'd like to know how safe it is. Currently I see two issues with the winch launching: 1. Sometimes a weak link is not used at all. The gliders are...

I committed one of the worst errors - an incomplete preflight check. I did not check the hotelier locks to the spoiler rods with enough care before takeoff. Coming into the pattern I extended the spoilers and noticed immediately that something was wrong. The glider (SparrowHawk) was pulling to one...