Hi, I used to visit Zimbabwe for gliding facilities. The best weather is starting now. There were facilities in Gweru : Harvey Quail, Paul Cooper ...etc. , and facilities in Harare. Now when I phone previously valid numbers, they are all 'native' occupants. Have all the 'whites' fled ?

Video from Australia: http://www.recreationalflying.net/threads/i-almost-cried-libelle-sailplane-landing-wounded.26923/

First Arrival at the Marfa Wave Camp. A car with a glider trailer slowly approached my "Marfa Gliders" hangar, thankfully creating very little dust. I thought "here is someone who knows how to drive on an airport!" Noticing the New York vehicle tags, I greeted the driver and lady passenger with...

I would like to be able to calculate the actual CG position for my ASW-19B, in addition to using Schleicher's cockpit load CG check. I found some data in the AS Airworthiness Test Report and more in the FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet, but 3 items are still unknown. Schleicher does not give any...

Hi all If anyone has an electronic version of the T59D manual I would much appreciate a copy. I do have a paper version came with serial #1771. Unfortunately the quality is poor and many of the diagrams are illegible (high acid paper + 30 years) As an aside - I have the standard question - what...

A recent article highlights the AOPA's advocacy of in-flight cell phone use: http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2007/070426fcc.html It references this March 2005 article, http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2005/050328cell.html which states in part:

On Oct 6, 11:04 pm, Andreas Maurer wrote: No member in my club pays more than 600$ per year for gliding, all costs included. Lots of young people, too. Bye Andreas I'll bite. How does you club make that work? If we paid the same, we'd cover barely a third of the...

The discussion on tow vehicles hits home. I have to replace the trusty Accord with something that has a beefier hitch attachment point. I've managed to rip the hitch off from the bottom of the trunk twice now. Car: 2000 Honda Accord V6 sedan, 201,000 miles. Trailer: 2006 Swan, with fiberglass...

As an experiment in using high definition video and images for soaring education, I've put together a site: hdsoaring.blogspot.com with a few installments for your viewing . The intent is to use the fine detail available with high definition video (both live and with graphic overlays on still...

Hi, Does anyone have experience using as a tow plane a C-150 with a 180hp conversion? There is one on the market for a very good price. It has a tow hook and a STOL kit already installed. Obviously, a Pawnee would be the best choice. But, for 15-20K less, two seats and trike gear, it seems a like...

I am looking for articles / videos on how to compete well on OLC. How to get the best scoring, What type of tasks are better than others, or just working in OLC flying in general. Any links to articles or videos, or whatever would be useful. For others as well as myself I'm sure.

These days we're asked to email our log files to the (often remote) scorer, and PC's are, well, so passe. It's a drag running around trying to find somebody with a PC to email the file. And we definitely to NOT want to delay the scoring. Some flight computers can send the log file directly from...

;-) Perhaps we can infer a correlation between the proliferation of electronic gadgets in our cockpits with the dumbing down of glider pilots? There are Standford University studies that indicate that multitasking can lower your IQ or that "people who are regularly bombarded with several streams...

I'm looking for a blue tint Mecaplex sliding canopy window with pop out air scoop. Don't need the guide rails. Anyone have one from a broken canopy? Terry

FYI, recently I upgraded my notebook to Windows 7 64bit. I've found a good reliable USB serial convertor that works "out of the box" on Windows 7 even the 64 bit version. USB to Serial Adapter - Mini PRO -...

Tried to send an email to Bumper to get instructions for the MK IV yaw string installation. The email address on the package and what I have by searching RAS bounces. Anyone have the instructions or a valid email address for Bumper? Thanks in advance

Just posted this on GliderForum.com Pictures and description are on there. http://www.gliderforum.com/thread-view.asp?threadid=3328 Apologies for earlier post hit the enter key before it was ready to go. Cheers

I have a Winter variometer that works great except that at rest it reads high (+1.5). While that makes me feel good in flight, I'd rather zero the thing out. The question is how to do this. I have been told two different ways to do this; 1) Find the zero adjustment - I removed the face plate...

The competition director has his hands full when tasking sports class because of the vast differences in sailplane types in the class. If he gives the Nimbus driver a challenging task, the 1-26 driver will have no chance of completing the task. For this reason Assigned Task is not allowed. At first...

With the conclusion of Region 4 North, the 2009 sanctioned contests are finished and the first release of the Pilot Ranking List for 2010 is available on the three identical Soaring Servers at soaringweb.org/ PRL, soaring.gahsys.com/PRL, and soaring.xinqu.net/PRL Some of the names are just WAGs,...