If you are within driving distance of Georgia, Tennessee or Alabama please join us: We have a fairly firm schedule of events for GTA. Therefore we also know which days in the spring it is going to rain ;-) A few changes have been made since the draft was released so please look through this and...

I thought it might be useful to list all the soaring related discussion groups in one place, it is hard to find all the aircraft specific email lists if you don't know where to look. Please add your group to this...

The Blanik has a 350 x 135 tire. Apparently the company that used to make an inner tube to fit this tire has stopped doing so. The local Blanik operator has been told that the appropriate tube is 500 x 5. In the last week, there have been 3 flat tires on the Blanik. Each time, there was a 1-2"...

According to the SSA webpage: "Follow the 18 meter national soaring championships on Twitter "There’s something new with the 2009 18 Meter National Soaring Championships. We’re going to report on the contest, in real time, on Twitter. As you may know, Twitter is the micro-blog site that allows...

Anyone know anything about the US 18-Meter Nationals today? Nothing on the SSA website. Twitter report only says "Gumbo feed on the clubhouse deck tonight."

There will be a Tonopah camp this summer from July 8 to 16. Dr. D. (Frank Donnelly) will be towing. Organization is by Jack Harkin. Oxygen will be available. The Harkin/Donnelly team has done this for several years. Already nearly a dozen pilots have signed up. For more information,...

The latest SSA Newsletter says: "OLC entrants in the USA will hopefully at least double in size again this year - with more and more pilots going out away from the home airport. OLC has grown significantly over the past three years, with participation coming from many different groups. We are...

The OLC will reject a Cambridge file that does not have the G-Record. It has rejected my file that was recorded by SeeYou Mobile in my Ipaq. Yet a friend has no problem with getting it to accept a file that he records in his SN-10. I believe the SN-10 file has no security. Does anyone know why...

I have a B40 with a very small loudspeaker (maybe an inch across), and a 302 with a much larger speaker (2" to 3"). Could I use the small speaker on the 302 without wrecking the speaker?

Do I correctly understand the AD below to mean that any Pegasus in the US with 3000 hours cannot be flown after January 6, 2006? Certainly would have an effect of the market value of this glider, even one with significantly less than 3000 hours. I notice that someone put one on the market today...

The July issue of the Region 12 newsletter, "Southern California Soaring," is now on-line at www.SoCalSoaring.com Articles in this issue include: Youth in Soaring RESCO -- Then and Now Region 12 Director Election Memorial Day Weekend 2003 at Lone Pine 410 Miles from Lone Pine in a Phoebus

Thanks to the efforts of several Region 12 pilots, the last 7 years of Johnson Flight Tests have been added to the SSA site. Log in as a member, then click on Johnson Articles.

LS-3 (1977) with aluminum top Cobra trailer (1987). Both in very good condition. Entire glider was refinished several years ago. Glider is just back from cosmetic work at Yankee Composites in Williams CA -- removed scratches under the nose, repainted gear doors, refinished spoiler caps, and...

1987 Cobra trailer for 15 meter glider. Aluminum top. New tires and bearing repack. Parking brake but no surge brake. Located in Southern California. $5,650 or best offer. For info and photos, contact .

I have an IBM Thinkpad with no serial port. For downloading from an LX-5000, I have used a Belkin USB to serial adapter. It has worked fine. I now am trying to download from a Cambridge 302. When everything works, it takes roughly a minute to download 3 minutes of flight data (and at least a...

I am looking for a Winter 2 1/4" altimeter in good shape. Must be marked in feet with 1,000' per rotation. I am located in the US. Thanks, Greg Arnold

I from DG's latest monthly newsletter that they have officially taken over LS.

I don't have a PDA, and so can't try out this new software. But reading the stuff on the website, I can't tell whether the map shows arrival altitudes above ground level at various landing spots. It looks like it only shows the elevations of various points. Can anyone clarify this?

I think the brakes are designed so they don't work when the wheels are turning backwards. So be careful about parking the trailer when the tongue is aiming uphill. "Udo Rumpf" wrote in message ... What is the mechanism to prevent the breaks...

A three-view drawing of the new 18m Discus 2c is now available. Go to http://www.SoCalSoaring.com, click on Current Issue, and go to page 7. For a full-size 3-view of the D2c, click on the small 3-view drawing.