There seems to be some problems with Volkslogger declarations generated by other than the Volkslogger DOS software (that won't work reliably on many recent Windows computers), e.g. the sector definition can change (it happens when I make a WinPilot declaration and upload it to Volkslogger). I find...

I'm coming to the USA in a few days (first trip to America). It's not a soaring vacation, but I'd like to find the opportunity to put one more sailplane type in my logbook. Where in the California/Nevada region could I make a dual flight in a 2-32? Any...

Just another point in this discussion: when I look at an approach map of an airfield, the pattern altitude is expressed as a height above ground. To me, this means the easiest way of complying is to fly QFE when entering the pattern (no mathematics needed) - providing of course you can get the...

I remember some pictures of a carbon fibre pure glider that caught fire when it hit some high tension wires during an outlanding. The pilot had time to walk away (and was luckily able to do so), but couldn't extinguish the fire. Most of the fuselage and part of the wing burned up. The fire was...

In the previous post, I read the classic 2. Short pause, However, EASA's CS-22 (the new European glider design norm, replacing JAR-22) gives the following standard spin exit procedu AMC 22.221(c),(d),(e) and (f) Spinning General

Probably the strangest incident of this kind happened in the sixties to the well-known pioneer of alpine flight, Jochen von Kalckreuth. See his book: Das stille Abenteuer (The silent adventure - I don't now if it has ever been translated to English) He was cloud-flying over northern Italy in an...

Let's say for some reason I had stored in the FR three different declarations made on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. As far as I know, it is impossible to have different declarations in one FR! What you can have is different flight plans, tasks or whatever you wish to call them. But the only...

You can trust a tree, but you can't trust a glue. Due to a catastrophic in-flight failure of a Robin DR 400 wing, the French authorities discovered badly glued wingspars in a lot of airplanes of this type. Consequently, reinforcements have been made mandatory (C.N. 2003-348). To see how this is...

Try this: *Puchacz WinPilot POLAR file: MassDryGross, MaxWaterBallast, Speed1, Sink1, Speed2, Sink2, Speed3, Sink3 550,0,80,-0.72,120,-1.33,180,-3.75 Copy in a text editor (should be two lines, with hard return after "sink 3"), save as text file "puchacz.plr.txt", remove the ".txt" extension,...

Just look at this one: a soviet TB-1 bomber with 9 sailplanes on tow! http://etiennefly.free.fr/images/9plan.jpg] -- stephanevdv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via OziPilots Online http://www.OziPilotsOnline.com.au ] - A website for Australian...

About the correct order of actions in a checklist: what about putting in last what you actually want to do last? When I first learned to soar, one of the first items in the oral checklist was: canopy closed and locked. I promptly inverted that with the last item (it was the same initial K in...

I already asked this in another thread concerning the same subject, without getting an answer: Why should every pilot have his own personal flight recorder? If there is one per glider, this will be more than enough! In fact, it never happens that all gliders on a site are busy with competition...

I prefer to start this new thread rather than to pollute the original, related to the recent fatal Teton crash. I have some reservations concerning this posting: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.aviation.soaring/yTA5-SFWPKw/UPoMSUMjBgAJ "My hats off to the commercial pilots and CFI's out there...

I have an early 1990's vintage Cobra trailer with a front hatch. The gas spring that holds the hatch up has deteriorated, and I'd like to replace it. I've emailed both Cobra and the German gas spring manufacturer with no response. I can see that the length of the gas spring is critical to the...

I was at Parowan a few years ago for a nationals contest and saw a software product that imports Blipmap data and then generates a map with a series of circles containing themal heights and updraft predictions for a gridded area. Can anyone recall the name?

What do you think is the best tow vehicle for a single place glass sailplane? What is the smallest vehicle one can safely tow with?

What a prospective buyer should look for? Rust? damaging mildew? dry rot on trailer tires? What else?

The FAA Registry has a heading for V2bx as well as V2ax but indicates that none are in the U.S. What gives?

At my club we want to take some air to air photographs of a glider for promotional purposes. Does anyone have any useful experience they can pass on? Questions I'm thinking of: What is a suitable camera aircraft? I imagine another glider is not the easiest for getting the camera where you...

My Club would like to build some Hangers. Trailer hanger and Assembled glider hangers. Any plans or ideas would be very helpful, including open ended and Doors that slide.