Since I have given up soaring due to aging eyes, I have decided to sell my 2015 Itasca Tribute 27B for the same reason. It has been a fixture at the last few Seniors'. I can be reached at 394-5076 in Clermont Wes Lineberry

I have reduced the asking price of my ship (J3) to $77,000. Details are on the Wings and Wheels website. You will not get the "goodies" that I'm including with this ship anywhere else. Please don't turn this into a forum about the direction you think soaring as a sport is heading! I'm tired of...

There are 3 nice ASW27's for sale, all at reduced prices in the Wings and Wheels website. We 3 owners are mystified at the seeming lack of interest in this ship. Two of us are no longer flying thanks to Father Time and we're throwing in lots of soaring related "goodies" with your...

I have reduced the price of my ASW27B to $82,000. Formerly owned and modified by Dick Butler. Glider comes with lots of extras. Failing eyesight is forcing me to hang it up after 50+ years of good times. Details on Wings and Wheels classifieds website. Wes LIneberry (J3)

Hi everyone, I am a licensed glider pilot and will be pursuing my Single Engine Land power license this upcoming year. I was wondering if anyone in the group has gone from Glider License only to Single Engine Land licensing? What were the requirements, etc? Do any of the hours transfer to the...

Greetings, I have listed my Grob 102 Astir CS for sale on the Cumulus-Soaring site. The reflected price is for users of rec.aviation.soaring users only for the next week or so. Please pass along the info if you know of anyone looking for an airworthy entry level glass ship for a great price. ...

1962 Scheibe SF-26a 15m sailplane. Standard instruments with audio vario. Excellent condition, very nice open trailer. L/D 31:1. Located in Vermont. 7500 USD or best reasonable offer. Pics and description on "Wings and Wheels" and "Barnstormers". Be ready for the IVSM this year with a...

RENO NEWSPAPER DEFENDS REPORTING ON GLIDER ACCIDENT August 30, 2006 Reno, Nevada: A spokesperson at the Reno Daily Review & Journal Dispatch defended charges of plagiarism today, arguing that material gathered by one of that city's most respected newspapers was in the public domain and thus did...

Effective immediately, SSA are revising the voting process used to elect Rules Committee members and to survey pilots on upcoming rules-related comps issues. Presently pilots on SSA's seeding list avail themselves of online Internet survey forms for voting purposes each year. In order to do...

The U.S.A. Rules Committee are rumoured to be polishing off the details of a multi-prong program to address the much-ballyhooed topic of Rules simplification. Recent sentiment amongst pilots indicates that the Rules for U.S. comps--as codified in a proliferating document that has spun off multiple...

Endeavouring to defuse tensions that flared again recently over which finish procedure to employ at comps, SSA are rumoured to be considering a change that could quell the rancor and invective over the two practises: viz., finish line v. finish ring/cylinder. As America's gliding overseers are...

Attention this weekend in the American soaring world is focused anxiously on Houston, Texas as pilots await word of the annual U.S.A. Rules Committee's closed-door deliberations. Will the sudden emergence of fumata bianca (white smoke) signal that costly new still-to-be- proven FLARM devices will...

With the growing controversy over the escalating cost of safety equipment, a group of concerned American comps pilots have submitted a proposal to the U.S. Rules Committee to permit each pilot to choose which safety devices to employ. This group, the unfortunately dubbed PowerFLARM Advocates...

Gliding enthusiasts, join the 99% in Minden, Nevada this June and send a message to the wealthy and greedy 1% that gliding is a universal right that cannot be abridged by any person or organization. The cruel convergence of income inequity, the breathtaking cost of gliders and equipment, and the...

The outcry over U.S.A comps safety which preoccupied rec.aviation.soaring last year assumed an uglier tone at the SSA's yearly convention in Georgia last week. There, an emerging group--Safe, Law-Abiding Comps Racers (SLACR)--were said to have been rebuffed when SSA's board of directors refused to...

For Sale 1991 Stemme S 10V, 2 Place side by side self Launching Sailplane. Original Factory Demonstrator with hardpoints on the wing for pods.....Platform Work. Very dependable Limbach engine 95 hp. As much an airplane as a sailplane! Taxi and fly it off any airport. Busy airports do not even...

E L Y NV June 26 through July 2 Improve your technical and tactical soaring skills related to increasing your achieved cross country course speed, improved glider handling! Lead Pilot Instructor: Carl Herold Seminar Manager John Neel, contact 435 656 0440 John Neel

Well done Soar Point The fact that he comes out with his points just once in a while, makes it very interesting! BUT.......for us who could not make it to the Convention, could we have some reports, stories. What gliders were on the floor, Talks, lectures, items?

Low time, Limbach powered,located in the midwest, Independent soaring and traveling. reasonable. 9709253418

Anyone still using a VP 6 without the VP 9... What is the easiest way to get a new turnpoint library into it? I do not have DOS anymore. Do have a couple of Ipaqs. Dieter