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Favored sailplane for 15 meter Club Class contests with the wing incidence factory mod. Spacious cockpit for larger pilots. Good factory support from US dealer or Schempp-Hirth in Germany. 1972. 667 hours total time. Annual Feb 2020. Always hangared or in Eberle Trailer since I acquired it in...

Yes, really. E-mail only to marfagliders AT a0l.c0m Southwest Texas, USA.

Feeling Rusty? YOU choose the topics / maneuvers that you feel that you need to work on to become proficient. Aerotow, accuracy landings, thermaling, reading the sky and more. May qualify as a Flight Review. Marfa is on a grassy plateau at 5,000' airport elevation in southwest Texas, near the...

PVT, COM, CFIG renewal, reinstatement of expired CFIG or "Initial" CFIG. Let's finish it up ."Someday" is NOW. FREE checkrides at Marfa in southwest Texas or I can travel to your gliderport anywhere in the USA to get it done! No more complicated FAA paperwork for me as your Designated Pilot...

Seeing old friends, making new friends and putting faces to names in this age of sterile social media communication is a reason why the SSA Directors might consider a return to the annual SSA Conventions of the past. Just because you might be my "friend" on Facebook doesn't necessarily mean that we...

"Schempp-Hirth open class Cirrus" is a new Facebook group about the classic SH Cirrus (Open class 17.4 meter) sailplane. Many new photos, some of which I have contributed of the Open Cirrus (FC) that my father, Fritz Compton, imported in 1968 and flew at the 1969 ("Sun Ship Game") US Nationals at...

T-minus 30 and counting down the days to the Soaring Society of America Convention in Little Rock, February 19 – 22, 2020. February 19, Wednesday at 6:00 PM: The Soaring Safety Foundation (SSF) Training and Safety Seminar is the traditional opening event at the SSA Conventions. A talented...

Just saw this advert in Barnstormers.com The nicest gliderport in the USA in my opinion. The swimming pool makes it so. http://www.floridaairparkhomes.com/property-for-sale.html Rich Owen: Please reply if anything about the advert is not true.

TOWPILOT needed to fly and live in my guest cottage next to my home in town just 3 miles from Marfa Airport in far southwest Texas, near the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. Marfa Airport elevation is near 5,000' so we enjoy a pleasant year-round climate. 3 runways at MRF airport, a...

July 31, 1964. On this date in soaring history, Al Parker makes the first soaring flight to exceed 1,000 kilometers. Today is the 50th anniversary of Alvin H. Parker's remarkable 1,042 kilometer (647 mile) world record flight in 1964, the first-ever in the world to break the 1,000 kilometer...

In responses to my "Traveling Checkride Examiner" post and questions on the SSA Clubs & Chapters group I have received e-mails such as this one: Q. "Burt - Your recent message on Chapters-SSA got me thinking about site surveys. What exactly are they? How much time is required? What's the...

Almost ready to take your Practical Test ("checkride") for your Private or Commercial glider pilot license? Ready to become a Glider Flight Instructor? Burt, your Traveling FAA Glider License Checkride Examiner (DPE) will be on the road (mostly airline actually) starting this spring to New...

The FAA has granted the privilege (for which I am honored and grateful) to travel most anywhere around the USA (plus Alaska and Hawaii) to conduct your glider pilot checkride for PVT, COM, INITIAL CFI, CFI "add-on", CFI Renewal and a Reinstatement of an expired CFI-Glider. As your Designated Pilot...

Burt here. I'm NOT retiring, I just downsizing my fleet, selling a hangar, offering my collection of vintage music instruments for sale, specifically: My beautifully restored 1946 Piper J-3 Cub (low-time C-85 HP.) Grove brakes, new spars, new prop, etc. Schempp-Hirth Standard Cirrus, low time,...

Just added invitations from clubs in New Mexico and Washington state to my itinerary for free Site Surveys this year.

"Kiss A Dirt Road In Texas (sang the drummer in the band.") Enjoy it on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOmx3FAPGIk&feature=em-share_video_user A new music video (with my ASK-21 sailplane) written and sung by J. Brian King about my wonderful life as a flight instructor and musician...

DEC 2016. Texas, USA The FAA has just bestowed upon me, a Designated Pilot Examiner, the somewhat unique privilege and honor to conduct first-time “INITIAL� Flight Instructor (Glider) Practical Tests (“checkrides.�) My 24 month window of authorization to conduct Initial CFIG checkrides...

See it fly: https://www.youtube.com/embed/vOy_RnaymL0

i arrived on top of Harris Hill last evening from Marfa, Texas with my ASK-13, a bit ahead of schedule so now I can properly enjoy our National Soaring Museum and tour the beautiful Fingerlakes region of western New York state. Suddenly remembering decades of personal memories of Harris Hill...