It's raining at the field today so here is a serious soaring question to ponder: Should the end of the TE probe on the fin point up or down? Informal surveys at recent contests seem to show a slight preference for up (not counting those "swingers" that go both ways). I've heard all sorts of...

I have just done a weight and balance on our Club's Grob Astir CS and after computing the empty weight and C of G we find that the max pilot weight is 210 pounds (no chute, no batteries). The empty weight is 626 pounds which seems quite high. The glider POH states that the empty weight is 560...

I don't think I'm alone here in monitoring press articles about gliding - I like to identify the elements that make the story 'work' (in particular the ones that capture the things i enjoy about gliding). This one's a good one I reckon. Low on the fear/challenge factor and high on the accurate...

Thank you all for the fine past discussions archived here (2004, 2008, 2009) on this topic. Without having read all of that three years ago, I put a set of good touring passenger tires with adequate load rating on my Cobra and have been careful to keep them maximally inflated. It's a 2002 with...

From time to time I check the iPhone app store for soaring apps. I just came across GlidePath. The developer claims it's OLC compliant. I havent purchased it yet, but it looks like a good backup for OLC flying. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glidepath/id383714417?mt=8# Pete

http://www.ssa.org/myhome.asp?mbr=8148767352&show=blog&id=2362 John Godfrey (QT) US Competition Rules Committee US Team Webgeek

The US Team Committee, in cooperation with the Rules Committee and based on responses received through the on-line competition survey conducted last year, has decided to recommend to the SSA Board of Directors at its winter meeting that they approve amendment to the Selection Policy for US Club...

To Contest Director and Scribe Dick Butler: Thank you for the daily reports! They are well written, fun to read, and full of good information. And, to Scorer Leo Buckley: Thank you for your work in getting the scores out for all of us to see! Of course, to my friend and mentor (although I must...

Is there an easy way to check that my solar powered vent on top of the Cobra trailer is functioning properly? I haven't heard it running lately, but don't really know what triggers it to run (besides light of course...) Thanks, Matt

Anybody successful in connecting a Cambridge 302 to a laptop using the new USB port? The instructions say that the laptop should find the necessary driver on the device, mine does not, says it can not find driver software for DLP-TXRX, and that's as far as I can get. Is it possible to get the...

I am going retro and going back to a 3950 from my 4700, looking for a mount for the 3900 if you have one on the shelf. Thanks, Tim

Please tell me where I can find an Owner's Manual for a Scott A14S Oxygen Regulator - I am trying to assist a glider pilot friend in Europe - thanks in advance - rhwoody

Anyone know how to find more data and photos on WWII glider pilots from both 29 Palms and Lubbock TX? Communicated with George at the Nat WW2 Glider Pilots Assn, but we know there are some amateur historians who monitor this group and others. Philip and his family are receiving a special...

Hello All: If you have not figured it out, this is a topic I care passionnately about... Could we try and give the members of the US RC that post here/read opinions here regularly an idea of the possible support for establishing a stand alone US Club Class Nationals? I recognize that the devil...

While we’re lauding service to the gliding community consider this: (Thanks Tim on another thread) I have had my MRX for several years, and have never seen an indication that there was traffic anywhere. At the end of a runway at Pearson International in Toronto, it told me...

Presumably somebody came and picked up the Ventus 2 that I was flying? It was parked outside the fence, on a public street, at my local airport for the last few weeks. Some notice would have been appreciated, the conditions were quite good the other day and I had a badge flight planned

This link is to a video prepared to illustrate lessons from a crash in January, 2009 I believe this is the crash in which several members of the Chicago soaring community perished. http://flash.aopa.org/asf/acs_crosscountry/?WT.mc_id=100924epilot&WT.mc_sect=tts

Hi, http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/exclusivevids/HumanPoweredOrnithopterFlight_203330-1.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpobKBR6n9U - be sure to watch it in HD for best picture Very cool! What a lovely machine in flight! Congratulations to the designers for a job well done!

In French Alps last week end.. http://www.ledauphine.com/isere-sud/2010/09/20/coupe-icare-un-planeur-se-disloque-en-plein-vol

I support a Club Class National Contest in the US based on the list of "Club Class" gliders and "handicaps" used at the last Club Class WGC.