There were several long wave flights in Utah on Saturday. Dan Wrobel posted a flight of more than 700K in a Ventus B 16.6 to OLC and York Zentner flew over 1000K in LM (ASG-29) but appears to have had a logger failure. His spot trace will be around for a few...

Folks - I was doing this one local. Turns out we can do it as an SSA Webinar...?!! Sign in like usual, but I can't guarantee Wings Credit. Visual Landout Site Evaluation from In Flight - Cindy Brickner PDT 6pm to 7-15?? Different in that this is a live performance that is being simulcast. We...

Hey hey....looks like I have competition with Walt reporting on Day 3... TSA put on a left over cookout with plenty of BBQ, Burgers, and Hot Dogs with all the sides to go around. Beer of course and Ice Tea. Then I got side tracked with Rich Owens (999pts today) telling me about all the fighter...

If you are a pilot with a US license living in Europe and would like to be able to fly here without converting your license or spending a ton of money to bring a glider from the US, I have a classic Aer Pegaso M100S standard class Italian glider for sale, US registered, standard airworthiness....

Curt, Next time you're at the airport, could you power cycle the computer underneath the desk in the backroom upstairs? Should start up automatically when power restored. I'm generally available in July to help with wings or whatever. Tnx Dave

Some of you are are familiar than I with the HRRR http://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/ Has anyone figured out how to bookmark specific current fields, e.g. the latest Mean Layer Vertical Velocity for the NE region. Trying to discover how to set up some useful bookmarks for quick access on a...

Hi All, I only recently discovered this group. I'm in the US Army stationed in Germany as a mobilized Reservist. I'll be returning home to Augusta, GA, the end of January. Shortly before I came to Germany in 2011 I did an add-on glider rating so I'd be able to fly while I was here "for a year"...

My 302 won't go. When you turn it on it just starts up with "CAI 300" on the LCD and thats as far as it goes. It did this a couple of times last year but seemed to sort itself out after a while. This time its well and truely stuck. Any ideas?

Dear All I am in the market for a used Sparrowhawk. If you have your ship for sale, please shoot me an email with a short description, a couple of good pictures, and your idea of the sales price. I am looking around for a ship in good condition, trailer would be nice too. Thanks, Heiri

After doing an extensive panel upgrade, I have several instruments for sale: Cambridge 302 DDV and Cambridge 303 Display--$1000.00, including ground shipping within the USA. This includes all the bits to go along with the system--including a GPS antennae, OAT probe, and a serial to USB cable for...

All racing plots should be using these to improve 'finger to touchscreen' performance: http://www.phonefingers.com/

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Hey Abigel, I'll take the 7.5 million. You will definitely not be placing it in the WROUNG hands! Bad speelers of the world unite! :) JJ

Our soaring club, the Soaring Club of Houston (Texas), has grown considerably over the last several years. As a result, we’re starting a strategic planning process to help guide our future growth. If other clubs have any planning information they could share, I’d appreciate copies. I’m interested...

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I would like to buy a Borgelt B40 vario. If you have one that's available, please drop me a line. Cam Martin Tehachapi CA jcmartinATbak.rr.com

Sorry if this is boring, but the last discussion pretty much focused on the release / rudder waggle. I can't get to the NTSB report just now, but I seem to recall reading in the report on the OTHER incident (loose hand held radio blocking forward stick movement) that the pilot released, still...

Last December I reported in this forum that I was starting a project to extract airspace information from the National Airspace Resource Files (NASR) published by the National Flight Data Center, and to translate that information into file formats commonly used in the sport aviation community (such...

I have not found a really good source for current Jet Stream analysis and Forecast Charts. This is the best one I've seen so far: http://weather.unisys.com/ngm/init/ngm_300_init.html Anyone got a better source? In the past I've seen similar charts from NOAA or NWS That had a white background and...

Hod Taylor celebrated his 89th birthday August 20 with a 2 1/2 hour flight over the beautiful Carson Valley and Lake Tahoe in a Duo Discus out of Minden. Many readers will remember Hod from his days at Black Forest Soaring, where he flew a triple lennie and entertained other pilots with his...