On Friday, March 25, 2011 10:41:58 AM UTC-7, Tim Taylor wrote: Sad thing is the AOPA site never mention the obvious error that if he had turned left rather than right he could have used the cross runway in a smooth 270 degree turn rather than the 360 degree turn required to go back to the...

On Friday, July 22, 2011 8:14:22 PM UTC-7, Steve Koerner wrote: The most fundamental problem is that we invented too many towplane signals. Consider if there were only one signal, then there could never be this fatal problem of misinterpretation. The signal should simply be "tow...

On Friday, July 22, 2011 6:42:31 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote: I've had two engine failures with gliders on tow (blown front engine seal and failed oil pump) and both times the glider released when I rocked the wings. Had they not, I'd have dumped them without concern of the terrain ...

On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:43:20 AM UTC-7, Andy wrote: I'm sure that if you open it up there will be a way to adjust the length without cutting the tip off. I thought I had the same antenna as you but my sleeve is larger diameter. My measurements a I looked inside mine a while back...

On Friday, July 15, 2011 4:05:32 PM UTC-7, glidergeek wrote: "Tonopah traffic Skywagon N180BM entering left down wind descending out of 7200' ". Better example would be to use Stewart Airport, about 3 miles away from Caesar Creek. Just ask one of the AGL proponents to describe the radio...

On Saturday, June 25, 2011 6:02:27 AM UTC-7, Andy wrote: You already scared me off. "Exciting and challenging" and by implication "aggressive" tasking for handicap class. Not what I need to tempt me to fly in an area I've not flown for over 20 years. OK then replace those words with short...

Or if you're at the command line of a Linux, Unix, Mac OS-X machine: $ date Fri Jun 24 22:07:18 PDT 2011 $ date -v+180d Wed Dec 21 22:07:24 PST 2011 ;-)

On Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:47:13 PM UTC-7, Tony wrote: Paul, since you sell V2000's, and I intend to buy from you anyway, do you know if it will work on Static or is TE an absolute requirement for the vario? TE is just static that changes with airspeed, so the vario has no idea whether...

On Monday, April 18, 2011 7:26:40 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote: my regular password does not meet their requirements. I hope it's not a password you use at multiple websites. One gets broken in to and the bad guys now have all your passwords. Try these guys to better deal with remembering...

On Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:19:07 PM UTC-7, Nyal Williams wrote: I don't mind giving a cockpit checkout in gliders I have not flown. My statement says simply that the pilot has read the POH and that I have conducted a review of the instruments and flight controls, and then sign that...

I have a PZL K-13 compass that's leaking. Here's a photo of the compass: http://www.soarbfss.org/scgi-bin/gallery2/v/Flying_0/acc.jpg.html This summer, I had the canopy of my ASH-26E open and it focused the sun onto the compass and melted a hole in the front. Luckily it was in the black painted...

I'm using parallels on my MacBook to run SeeYou on Windows XP and quite happy with the solution, pretty much transparent as it's possible to make the Windows app look like it's running natively on the Mac's desktop. Another option is http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/ which...

The best way to get a good wind calculation while flying "straight", such as on a final glide, descending through wind gradients and shears, I do the following per conversation with Dave Ellis a few years ago: 1. Turn 45 degrees off course and fly straight for 10-15 seconds. 2. Turn 90 degrees in...

Video of indoor slope soaring miniature glider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAR2WD-BgM&feature=related Has anyone thought about trying this with a full sized sailplane? Perhaps a Sparrowhawk and a big-rig truck? I don't see anything in the Sporting Code that would prevent someone claiming a...

Messenger, that is... OK, so I've just been driving with it recently. But I have kinda figured it out, and have also set up an email filter to generate a much more useful email or text message position report. What follows will be most useful for someone who already has one of these, but it may...

A group of employees at my company are participating in an evening walk to raise funds and awareness for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Each of us has set up a website through the group to collect donations, so I thought it would be a great way to also promote soaring. I'm asking folks to...

Searched the archives for this info, but all I find are non specific refeences to some installations. Not very useful when one is out shopping for someting to install on the club Pawnee. So, who has mirrors on their Pawnee that work well? Where did you buy them? Current part number would really...

With all this discussion going on now, maybe someone with some knowledge or experience could enlighten us on the consequences of 10 or more sailplanes in a tight gaglge all squawking the same info. Will ATC see them all? Or will interference and/or filtering software at ATC make some or all of...

I was browsing a CompUSA today and came across what looks like nearly the perfect camera for taking photos from the cockpit. It's a Kodak V570. 5 megapixel and a 23mm equivalent wide angle lens. Here's a review: http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/kodak/v570-review/index.shtml The camera's tiny,...

I currently charge the (hard to remove) batteries in my ASH-26E with a solar panel and charger installed on/in my trailer. During a contest, the plane may not spend much time in the trailer during daylight hours, but it does spend most nights in there. The solution would be to use the solar panel...