I understand there will be no taping/recording or whatever of the Convention lectures. What a shame....and with today's technology! Trust me; you absolutely gotta see/hear Karl's Soaring Birds lecture. I have been lucky to see it several times in the last 40+ years, starting way back with SOARING...

It is being updated on a regular basis..with pertinent information. I think it works well.

For authoring a very nice article on Soaring in this month's Flying Magazine. BV

In an age when customer service does not always measure up to what we’d like, those who excel deserve to be recognized. I had seriously bent a part on my 2-year old Cobra trailer. It was my fault during a rushed disassembly in the rain at a recent regional contest. I checked around the US to find...

Gary Kammerer at ClearNav deserves big kudos for his work in what he does. One of the many things he does is repair Cambridge instruments, including my 302. After the very recent upgrade to the 302, the gps portion of the instrument was found not working. I sent the 302 back to Gary and he found...

Those of you who've flown at Moriarty know our "line boy" Steve. Steve arrived here a couple of years ago when his truck, pulling a travel trailer, and a utility trailer with his Harley behind blew up at Clines Corners. Steve had been interested in gliders and, seeing Sundance Aviation on the...

Just saw this on the interwebs this morning. A paraglider pilot managed to finally complete a 300km triangle in the alps. http://www.xcmag.com/2014/06/thomas-walder-flies-first-paraglider-300km-fai-triangle/ Pretty impressive for something with slightly better than half the L/D of a 1-26 :-) Pete

Having just completed flying the Region 10 Contest at Fredericksburg, Gillipsie County Airfield in the great State of Texas, I wanted to publicly thank the organizers, the Fault Line Flyers and the many other volunteers that made the contest a roaring success. This was one of the tightest run...

Just yesterday, I sent the SSA Webmaster a request for an addition to the SSA webpage. He responded he would look into it, but after the Convention. He was VERY busy getting ready for the Convention, and understandibly so. He lied. He didn't wait until after the convention, but changed and...

I noticed after yesterday's flight that my flight display on Skylines had metric values in the altitude graph. I sent an email to Max and today got an email from Turbo letting me know that it was fixed. Now that's service! Maybe some of the vendors of high-tech stuff should use that as an...

Kentucky is on the SSA list for non-existent soaring clubs. Any interested glider and/or tow pilots in the Louisville KY area? I have a 2-33 that I will be operating out of Springfield KY 6I2. If interested, send an email to

but only variant L 13 A or equivalent (having reinforced wing spar), and also when compliant with some additional limitations, see amended/new EASA AD at http://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/easa_ad_2011_0135.pdf/AD_2011-0135_1

Dear aviation friends, my name is Pavel Rind and I am representing an approved maintenance organisation for L 13/L13A/L23 and L33 gliders produced by former LET Kunovice Czech Republic. We have recently finished a repair and complete refurbrishment of L 23 Super Blanik G-CFYF located at York...

In the W&W Claasifieds there is a L33 Solo listed for 13K Canadian, that about 9400 USD. I read Dick Johnsons flight report and he liked it, he was concerned that it had very little aerodynamic stall warning and would readily drop into a spin. He thought it best if low timers had real spin...

I have started flying a glider with a L-Nav and hav a question regarding L Nav speed command bar graph. How do I read it all I see in the manual is a black bar but, what does that mean? Dennis

Hello Is there anyone out there with a L spatz 55 Flight manual that I could purchase or copy for EASA transfer Many Thanks

Hello Is there anyone out there with a L spatz 55 Flight manual that I could purchase or copy for EASA transfer Many Thanks

Hello I know it is a long shot, does any one out there have a L-Spatz canopy? or know were there may be one on a damaged airframe? or some one that could manufacture one? If there are small crachs that is fine although I would prefer one with no cracks. Regards

Those bobby pins are used extensively on my Stemme and I lost two that fell out of their retaining strings during taxiing operations leaving me with only one spare. A quick search found 1.2 mm hitch pins at WalMart (of all places). I got a bag of 50 pins for under $8. Here's a link...

Hi There was a publication for a L'Hotellier replacement. I cannot find it or remember were it was. Any help welcome. Thank you Gilles