I'm writing to let the group know that Pete Williams, a revered pilot and a friend to all of us at Minden, has come down with a serious health problem. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Over at pprune, there is an interesting article with a few details on SS1 and White Night. http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=156626 -- Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd., +61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda. West Australia...

Texas Soaring Association will host a Region 10 contest July 3-9 (includes practice day) This will be a no water ballast contest. The entry will be limited to 40 contestants. All loggers must log position, altitude, competition ID and name. No fish finders. 15Meter, Standard, Sport class. Contact...

On Saturday Feb 12 2005 there is a planned "software shootout" at the SSA convention. The idea is to give about 10 minutes slide presentation per program and answer some questions. At the moment I am not planning to attend, but if a (experienced) GPS_LOG WinCE user is going there anyway and would...

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Sad news. A glider crashed in the Omarama saddle area and the pilot was killed. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3154669a11,00.html No witnesses, although the nearby contest was tasked through the area. A contest pilot found the wreckage and called a mayday. That's the second mayday I've...

Additional information from Texas Soaring Association July Regional This contest will be limited to 40 contestants.

Hello, For the next IGC meeting in March 2005 at Lausanne we filed a proposal to amend the note "turn points must be at least 10 km apart and may be claimed only once" in rule 1.4.3.c. and 1.4.5.b. This is to avoid that large sportif flights like the 1000km flight given...

Anyone know the status of the GGS online ground school.. http://www.falcontrainingsystems.com/ggs/index.htm Website is still there but says closed until 9/1/04. Everything works except the online signup link & I get no email response from them. Thanks, Bill

PW-6 pilots of the Auckland Gliding Club won the North Island Sports Class regional competition in New Zealand last month. Charles Yeates Swidnik PW-6U & PW-5 http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/yeatesc/world.html

Take a look at this site. http://www.gliding-in-melbourne.org/resource.htm Download the Polar Glider and print WAC, JWC or Stöcker final glide calculator.

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Can anyone help please with a contact e-mail ID for any member of the development team who built this excellent product. None of the Stransim site e-mail links work - mail is always "administratively rejected" - whatever that means. Many thanks DJR

All XC GLIDER PILOTS Should Make Plans to Attend: "The Seventh PASCO XC SEMINAR" to be held from 8 a.m to 6 p.m. at the UC Berkeley, California held in the LeConte Physics Building adjacent to the Campanile on Saturday 26 February 2005. The Theme of this Seminar is: "EXPLORING SAFE SOARING ON...

The final results of the 2004 South African Nationals are now available from: http://www.sssa.org.za With 10 competition days out of a possible 11 this championship has been hailed as one of the best since the 'Kimberley days' of the 1960s.

Can anyone help please with a contact e-mail address for Jeffrey Bogan, author of the 3DTracer package. The associated website support@... address doesn't seem to work. Thanks DJR

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passed away Jan. 4th, 2005. A member of the WSSA in Alamogordo, NM. He was still active and will be missed. He was 83. Thermal tight, Soar high, Fly safe. # 711.