The OLC gives the total scored distance flown in the US for the 2005 season as 1,068,218.12 km (3044 flights). What do you suppose the actual total distance flown for all flights was in the world? I couldn't find that number on the OLC web site. Whatever it is, it's sure to be a...

US Pilots, With the onset of cooler weather, I've had time to do a tiny project I've been meaning to work on for a long time. Many of you are aware that my website (http://www.soaringdata.info) can produce current US Temporary Flight Restriction airspace files in formats that work with most glide...

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Anyone engineered a good in-panel installation of their portable P- Flarm unit? Trying to get mine off the glare shield (see YO hall of shame) of my a- model Schempp, and would like to use the unit's internal GPS antenna if possible. Have seen a bracket commercially available, but it's aluminum...

Here's a list of questions about restoring an ASW-15B model. How expensive is it to tint a canopy? What about hinging it? The old metal Ben Greene trailer sure could use some struts/hydraulic to help open and close the lid. It's really heavy. Anything to assist in opening it?

Has anyone set-up a Colibri feeding NMEA to a Dynon? Specifically have you worked out what combination of NMEA sentences are required to get the Dynon (D10A) HSI to display in full? I'm getting the GPS positional information, but not information relating to next waypoint in a task.

I know this has probably been discussed many times, but here goes again. I am building my rudder this week for my HP-24. My fuselage and vertical fin is predominately carbon fiber, so no antenna in the fin. The laminate for the rudder will be fiberglass, and I plan on putting the antenna there. I...

For Immediate Sale in Wichita Falls, TX 1965 Phoebus B-1, S/N 715, N90857 $9500 Or Best Offer I am the third owner of this lovely Phoebus, the second owner never got to fly it due to health reasons and sold it to me. It spent all but the last two years at the same gliderport in northern...

DOS error 5 is a read only file error, have you checked the file attributes ? Failing that there are two Cambridge progs you might run,can't remember in which order you do it SYSINIT.EXE REBUILD.EXE or

Sometimes, I find tapping on the screen of a PDA in the cockpit a bit of a nuisance. I wish the thing had 'voice control.' My finger, not really all that big or fat, sometimes, doesn't find the 'buttons' just right. Getting the stylus out is possible, but I was wondering if there could be a...

Sky Soaring is one club near Chicago. I fly out of the Beloit Airport with Sylvania Soaring in Wisconsin. It's only about an hour from Chicago. GORDY

New Year. New start now. Accept and practice: New Foundations, and New Principles in Gliding Discourse, and Affirmation of Welcome All. Subject:

I flew with mine for the first time today, and it communicated fine with WinPilot Pro, but I had a problem with the speed-to-fly function. No matter how bad the sink, now matter how slow I flew, it kept telling me to fly slower. Also, the vario needle disagreed wildly with my Borgelt B-40. Like...

'The A330 is also a first class glider...' (http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/images/airtransat/revelations.html) ;) -- heavymetal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via OziPilots Online http://www.OziPilotsOnline.com.au ] - A website for Australian...

Sometime in the last week, a mention of a freeware program was made in co= mparison to Winpilot and GlideNavigator. I figured to come back to the t= hread, but seasonal Alzheimer's seems to have kicked in. I googled RAS= and could not find this. Can someone help me please? =20

Congratulations to Derek Piggott for his flight on 15th Aug in the Club Class Nationals at Lasham. 504km in a Russia Me7 all 12.6m of it in 7hrs 14 min. He was 80 last year and still puts the rest of us to shame with his energy and enthusiasm for gliding. He disproves the theory about old and bold...

I haven't been able to get the Online Contest site today; instead, I get a "Connection was refused ..." type of message. Are other people having problems? It worked fine yesterday. -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA

I have two of Wings and Wheel's older wing stand kits that I would like to sell. All the parts are there and so are the instructions. Never used. $25 for both, plus shipping. Email me at Thanks

The Soaring Safety Foundation (safety affiliate of the SSA) will conduct a Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic as follows: Location: Long Beach, CA Date: April 22-23, 2006 Registration: Jim Skydell

Has anyone had experience with installing a transponder antenna on the top of their glider? With as little level flight that we do and with most threats that have TCAS coming from above it would seem logical that having it on top would not be a detriment to the functionality of the instrument. We...