We have moved our event back 1 month by popular request to late June. June 22 (Saturday) is the single practice day. 7 contest days from June 23 - June 29. Sunday the 30th is a driving day. Website is up at www.r6n.org. Hope you all can make it again. We had roughly 45 gliders registered for...

IONIA REGION 6th We had a goood time at the Region 6th. This was the 35th year for the contest and we had some pilots that have been to just about all of them. The flying weather could have been better, but what can you do? Many thanks to Tiffany, Sean and Bruce. What a great job they did putting...

I started looking for news of the Region 6 contest at Ionia last weekend when their practice days started hoping the hosts or contest management would have some news...a current roster maybe or some sentence or two about the weather or at least a note if the was bad and unflyable. Here it is...

The SPOT tracking map for the Region 6N contest (starting tomorrow) is now available from http://www.hawketracking.com, click on 'Current Events' Enjoy! TA

Why is there no IOS app for skylines?

2007 Iowa Region Soaring Seminar and Banquet Saturday March 3 in Ames, IA Hosted by Silent Knights glider club and Iowa State Flying Cyclones Seminar will take place in Howe Hall on the Iowa State campus starting at 1 PM. The Program is still being developed, it includes the following, and we are...

Dont forget, this Saturday is the Iowa Region Soaring Seminar and Banquet in Ames, IA. The presentations have all been verified and this is what we have so far. Jim Porter will be presenting on RC Cross Country Soaring. He will have some of his RC Gliders on display. One is a 40% scale model...

Friends, Here is the preliminary info on this years Iowa Region Soaring Seminar and Banquet. It will be held in Cedar Rapids this year, a location which is an easy drive from Minneapolis and Chicago. In years past we have enjoyed attendance from many surrounding states and hope to boost that...

Yesterday Matt Michael, in his Woodstock, and I, in the Cherokee, set out downwind from Ames municipal on a pretty nice soaring day, especially considering the time of year! we were greeted with about 300 fpm thermals, sometimes stronger, but with wide spacing. Often we had nearly 10 mile runs...

does anyone have a url to the wiring diagram for IPAC to DB9 Thanks Mal www.mals.net

Apple is rumored to have a smaller, 7" iPad in the works to compete with the Kindle Fire which would make it more accomodating in the cockpit for a nav aid than the 11" version. (There may also be a touch- screen in development with realistic tactile feel from a company in Sweden). Anyone have an...

My handwriting is horrible, so instead of the "daily flight sheet" I created an iPad app to handle member "sign-in" and logging of the flights for the day. I tested it this past Sunday and now I'd like to broaden the testing. At this point I'm looking for just two (2) beta testers who have iPads...

Anyone using an iPad or iPad mini with the iGlide software? I wondered if anyone was using a mount for an iPad mini or could recommend one.

Can anyone recommend an iPad mini suction cup mount?

Hi, HP iPAQ 210 - Used http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/sale.htm#iPAQ210 This is my "test" iPAQ 210. It is 1 to 2 years old. It has been used only in my office for testing soaring software, CF GPS units, BlueTooth communications, CF Serial Cards, etc. It is in absolutely perfect condition. ...

I was going to buy an iPAQ 2210 for use as a final glide computer, but have been advised that the old 39xx series is better, even though out of production. Has anyone used the 2210? Is it any good? thanks Mal

Just bought a charger on ebay for $4.99. Works great and charges the unit even at full brightness. Still messing with the bluetooth serial connector, will report when I have that completed. Cheers Al

Hi, I have been successful getting my iPAQ 310's backlight to stay on, but one of my customers is not having any luck. We played with the backlight settings both in the street navigation software and in the Windows CE shell. The unit stays on but the backlight goes dim after less than 1...

Hi, I have been pretty happy with my iPAQ 310 with SeeYou Mobile, but there is one issue that has been very frustrating. The backlight keeps changing back to auto-dim mode. I have a customer that is having the same problem. We can both follow the procedure below to get the backlight to stay...

Hi Does anyone have any info on what serial port is connected to the USB on an iPAQ 310/312. I am trying to help setup one with XCsoar and feed in Flarm data as well. I have the Flarm data at the correct voltage levels but I can't work out what serial port the iPAQ thinks is...