I am new to ClearNav2. I have planned and flown two FAI tasks using the ClearNav2. ClearNav gave me a start time and changed from the start to first way point and then to the second way point, and then to the finish but no finish was acknowledged. I had the same task in my Nano and my Oudie,...

Can someone tell me how to load area maps and waypoints into the Clear Nav simulator? Thanks,

Does anyone have info on the wheel bearing assemblyl on this trailer? Is it a sealed bearing? Are parts available?

....copyright 2007 by Bill Geist; ISBN 978-0-7679-2272-2; subtitle "Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America" in which - among other charms - is the chapter entitled, "The Alien Highway: Rachel, Nevada" which begins: "Rachel, Nevada: only place I ever had a gun drawn on me; only...

On 2/24/2021 12:00 PM, Dan Marotta wrote: Since I use the Thunderbird email client to read RAS and I just discovered that I can attach a file to a message, I thought I'd do a test run. Anybody out there see the picture? Worked for me - using T-bird. Dern! Learn sumthin' new most every...

So it's wintertime in the northern hemisphere (short days/long nights), and on a recent thread it's (yet again) been implied out how crucial GPS is to routine navigation (you're doomed without it), and part of increasingly-geezeristic me gazes back fondly upon those forever-vanished days when...

A first-generation great has passed. I did not know Mr. Lemke, but from multiple sources whose opinions I respect, every one of them - unsolicited by me - volunteered he was not only a (quietly) superb, multi-talented, sailplane designer, but - far more important in the grand human scheme of...

Having just watched (36 hours after the fact) the SSA/Sebastian Kawa webinar of the (U.S.) evening of Feb. 5, 2019 (link that worked for me below), am "feeling the need" (ha ha!) to: 1) thank everyone involved - the (many) organizers; Sebastian Kawa; the moderators; the...

Warning!!! Intentional experiment of trying to intentionally 'drift a thread' by 'cold-starting' an entirely new, similarly-named, one without simply renaming one of the posts from the original one (which seems to cause some RASidents heartburn). Don't like today's result? Whine to the Ruler of...

A post from another thread is timely - this being the start of the most active part of the U.S. soaring season. Excerpted from another thread: Beginning of Excerpt... "There's a personality type that won't be convinced. I stopped to talk to a pilot who was launching on a wave day at Minden....

Thought I'd start a new thread, kinda-sorta forked off one "festering" in "The Boy Who Flew With Condors" thread (which I re-watched last night for the first time in decades; cool!)... On the card is a Grudge Match between two (irreconcilable?) schools of thought. Will there be a WINNAH?!? In...

So OK, naysayers, doom mongers and skeptics may disagree, but (to me) good news is good news. As measured by the FAA's Preliminary Accident & Incident Notices - specifically the absence therein of any glider reports for the month of January - 2013 is off to a distinctly better start than 2012...

From today's FAA Prelims; note the reporting delay (i.e. Feb. 22 crunch date). Note also FAA registration data identifies the plane as a G-103A Twin II Acro (as distinct from the preliminary data description). Registered to a corporation. Let's hope the injury data is accurate... Begin...

Another weekend, another two glider "incidents"... Check out http://southtahoenow.com/story/02/05/2012/report-glider-crash-heavenly-mountain-resort-calstar-helicopter-its-way So, OK, no injuries (apparently), and no aircraft damage, but done on a flight review?! And sure, wavish days out west...

What with it being mid-winter in the northern hemisphere, wouldn't it be wonderful if the 2012 U.S. soaring-activity-year got off to a nice, safe start? Especially with the SSA Convention coming up and in light of the statistically dismal last two years... Not gonna happen, folks. Per today's...

A newsgroup may well be one of the worst imaginable venues for 'selling safety' (other than Twitter, of course...) but the recent threads focusing on it set me to musing. Don't look for any pithy snippets of panacea wisdom in what follows, but if some of it gets a reader or two to cogitating on...

(Apologies for the truncated earlier post...the 'draft' and 'send' buttons are adjacent...) Most U.S. glider pilots know of Tom Knauff, creator and long-time proprietor of the well-known Ridge Soaring Gliderport in Pennsylvania. Probably fewer are aware he has an intermittent electronic...

Most U.S. glider pilots know of Tom Knauff, creator and long-time proprietor of the well-known Ridge Soaring Gliderport in Pennsylvania. Probably fewer are aware he has an intermittent electronic newsletter, which has as its most persistent theme the utterly boring, sometimes irritating, theme...

Check out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXwy7dsLndM ....for a nice/useful/short video of two flapped landings in an HP-14, owned/flown/filmed by Wayne Paul (and posted here with his permission). Curious reader-pilots may find the following information helpful, should they attempt to...

About the only 'good' thing associated with having recent/multiple sailplane-based fatalities involving premature releases from tow *might* be that it tends to: 1) focus one's thought process(es), and 2) might also *possibly* serve as a mental door opener to 'learning something new,' or...