The US Schleicher dealer warned me of a problem with the stick mounted trim lever. If the trim is full forward the instument console will hit the trim lever when the canopy is closed. I heeded the warning and avoided breaking it for over 2 years. My luck ran out last week when, as I rushed to...

Hi , for your info, there is a Schempp-Hirth Standard Cirrus 15mtr span standard class glider for sale in north florida, Gainesville area, right off I-75 just about 70 miles south of the georgia border.

The regionals are on at Ely. If you go to ElySoaring.com you will see that Carl Herold will have a area orientation June 2 thur the 4 with the regionals from the 5th thur the 11th of June. Those of you going to Parowan might just want to drop over to Ely and get in a few days of Carl's camp,...

I think companies should get credit for good customer service and should suffer the public consequences of poor service. In my recent experience, Dittel gets top marks, UPS flunks. I returned my FSG2T Dittel radio from the US to Germany for the service bulletin repair (details discussed on r.a.s...

If you're in the contest but didn't receive yours by e-mail, you can download it at the contest web page. http://www.asa-soaring.org/2006region9.asp http://www.asa-soaring.org/documents/PilotKit.pdf ~ted/2NO/CO

To recap, one of the SparrowHawks built for Mississippi State University broke up in flight Oct 18. The pilot parachuted safely. I just finished talking to Greg Cole, designer of the SparrowHawk. The program manager from MSU visited him Monday to discuss the data from the flight and pictures of...

We look forward to numerous entries in the "Cadet" learn-to-fly scholarship contest (named for the 1930 Frank Gross training glider). While this distributed SSA recruiting tool (poster, site invitation, essay challenge)is available all year, the submission deadline passes this weekend -- while kids...

The company originally responsible for PIK 20 no longer exists. I've heard, that no procedure to extend the 3.000 hrs limit has been established, and that consequently ships after this limit can only operate as experimental. Can someone confirm og correct me? Yours, /Poul Guldbaek

From the cockpit, I want to transfer my flight log to my phone and email it to the contest scorer. If your IGC approved logger is Bluetooth equipped and it is paired to your phone, is it just a simple matter of downloading log to phone and emailing the file? Are there any "security" issues or 3rd...

Does anyone know if Jantars (48-3, specifically) have a life-limit inspection interval? 2000? 3000 hours? Regards, Tim

On a recent leg from the west coast to Memphis (at night of course) playing Santa in a Fedex MD-11, we encountered a nice bounce in the wave crossing the Sangre De Cristo range at FL350. Wave was in the forecast so I got the camera ready as we approached the range. Pretty cool how much energy is...

I'm planning an Idaho soaring trip this summer, searched ras and checked out the King Mountain website. Would like to hear from people with experience at King Mountain about task planning in the area. Looking to do some 300-500km training flights in a two place glider and longer flights in my...

Must sell my favorite toy - PZL SZD-45A "Ogar" self-launching motorglider. Two-seat side-by-side for easy instruction / conversation. Very good condition, low hours. Broke my back, can't fly, so must sell. :-( See listing / photos at: http://glidersource.com/cgi-bin/post.cgi?id=541 $34,000...

If anyone happened to have the ASW-19 panel in autocad format and wouldn't mind sharing, please contact me direct. Thanks, Gary

I have decided to down size my fleet of soaring machines to the SparrowHawk and the Stemme S10-VT. I have owned the DG800B since new in 1998. It comes with a Cobra trailer, single person assembly wing dolly, EDS oxygen, Cambridge LNAV with iPAQ 3900 with GN11, transponder and many other options. It...

I have a B40 with a very small loudspeaker (maybe an inch across), and a 302 with a much larger speaker (2" to 3"). Could I use the small speaker on the 302 without wrecking the speaker?

Greetings: Last week, around Wednesday, there was a large grass fire west of Portales, New Mexico, USA. The wind was around 45 knots and it was warm. Albuquerque television station KOB aired some video tape of the fire that I found astounding. They showed two, what I would call, fire-devils. ...

Hello all in US-gliderland, Some time ago, there was an interesting article in Soaring about a glider being struck by a lightning. I seem to remember a photos of scourched sneakers, a blown out canopy and other damage. Can anybody tell me which issue of Soaring this was or if this article is...

Pilots meeting at 10:30 am went well and was short. Grid happened at 12 with first launches shortly after. Everything went smoothly, lift was up to 180 again, with climbs on course of over 10 kts. The stantards and 15 meters had the same course with polemtn and then Zion as turnpoints, Sports was...

Hi The elevator balance mandatory mods weigh about 2kg. Thus you would need about 10kg in the nose to balance it. Now my understanding is that if you put weights on the ends of a long fuselage and spin it there is a tendancy for it to end up in a flat spin? please correct me if I have this...