Piet Barber is one of the webmasters of Skyline Soaring Club in Virginia. He has established a cool channel on the AvantGo network that, once subscribed to, will automatically download the glider-related portions of 14CFR Parts 61 and 91 directly to your Palm or WinCE PDA. He has indicated his...

We have a few Aero 1550's left. These were bought in a close-out sale and appear to be new. The main batteries are good and we replaced the back-up batteries. We know they are hard to find these days. US $ 140.- with sync cradle and universal charger. Most other models available. From iPaq 31XX...

Hi all, Peter Millenaar from Holland has made a new video. It begins as a jojo-flight in an ASK-21, but later on they do some aerobatics (split-S?) and finally they fly and land !! in close formation with another ASK-21. Click on Video's on the left. There's a large (500mb) and small...

I need info on a Ball 620H vario such as a user manual, etc. Can anyone provide? Thanks, Ray

The primary Soaring Server website (soaring.aerobatics.ws) is temporarily offline. However, the mirror sites continue to be available, and are up to date with current content. The mirror sites may be accessed at... soaring.gahsys.com -or- soaring.xinqu.net We hope to have the primary server...

Authored by Hiroshi Seo and Peter Selinger. English version. Published by Airworks in Tokyo. It this book available anywhere...for sale? GA

Hi, I have created a couple of new help documents for Pocket PC users. Pocket PC Tips Pocket PCs are amazing devices. They offer a lot of processor power and a user-friendly touchscreen user interface in a small package. A large market keeps the prices relatively low. However, there are some...

Hi Olin and Mary Merry Christmas!! http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/ -- ----------------------------------------------------

Good day all, I am searching in North America for either a SF25 or SF28 motorglider to purchase. Could you advise if you know anyone interested or have found an advertisement to the effect (if have not). If replying directly please remove the usual capital letters from my address. Regards Andre...

Unit Has Been Sold

Hmmm...being a bit of a screwball, I've always wondered about getting an Airline Transport Pilot license for Gliders. It seems this is now possible... 61.165(f) says if you have an ATP already, you can apply for a category and class rating limited to a specific make and model of experimental...

Anyone know of a link to performace polars for a Blanik L-23? I have seen the polar curve drawn in the manual, but it is kinda simple and is difficult to pull out figures for making a glide calculator and/or speed to fly profile

Thanks for all the Excel log book help 380.38 gliding 67 power Now for a double check I entered them in right as I cheated by going off page totals. 434 flights is lot to enter. Mal

Cambridge S-NAV (latest) version 7.9 with built in G-Meter and readout for sale.Both items fresh from checkout and calibration at Cambridge (11/24/04). $950 E-Mail

Sad news. As most will already know, Mike Valentine is no longer with us. Mike passed away by his own hand last Friday night. I can offer no adequate words for this tragic outcome. Those of us who knew Mike will know that, while this outcome cannot be explained, it was the result of the very high...

The Standard Cirrus web site has been moved to a new home. It now lives in a folder at www.oxaero.com. It will take several days for the domain name to catch up. Until then, www.standardcirrus.org will point to the old site, or may not work at all for a day to so. Meanwhile, you can...

I recently noticed a Cherokee II project in Nebraska for sale on Barnstormers. Called and it's reported sold to "someone in Illinois". If anyone out there knows where it's ended up I'd love to hear about it. We have a restored Cherokee here in Iowa and it would be great to share knowledge and...

Written in the early seventies about soaring at Marfa - in big wing (open class) sailplanes. Map enclosed with green/red landable/unlandable areas (for big wings at least), and known "sink holes" and lift areas. I have copies available. I also have DVD copies of "The Sun Ship Game" movie. Then...

G'day All, Just a quick one to let you all know that the Inagural Australian Junior Nationals is taking place at the moment. For all results and daily updates check out www.joeyglide.com Unfortunately a lay day here, but have had two very interesting days sofar - both with thunderstorms and big...

Anyone else wonder why 1 gliding club got 3 motorgliders? See the latest issude of soaring for the details. Brad