GLIDING INTERNATIONAL - JANUARY ISSUE

THE JANUARY 2013 ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL

The January 2013 issue goes in the mail on December 18. Another 64
page issue that has a spread of news and photos from around the
planet. Another issue with some great reading plus a wealth of new
press release stories for soaring pilots wherever you are. Stories
include:

1. We have a replacement for the late Jochen Ewald. Aldo Cernezzi
fills Jochen’s place on the world gliding scene reporting and flying
new sailplanes with great expertise. He files his first in depth
report and its on the Schempp-Hirth Quintus . His reports will now to
be a regular Gliding International feature. Aldo provides great
photography too.

2. Gliding International columnist Francis Humblet has been in
Lithuania and reports on the Lak factory. Not a pretty scene there.
A shadow of its former self, the work force is down from 600 to 80,
all mainly engaged on repair work.

3 We have another look at the ‘Morning Glory’ with some great new
photography. We report on a visit to Burketown and the ‘Glory’ by a
German expedition who write about the wonders of this phenomenon.
The ‘Morning Glory’ is a must for all glider pilots to experience
before you hang up your parachute. The article provides an
explanation on how and why the Morning Glory forms.

4. A first for any gliding publication. Gliding International has a
one on one interview with Sebastian Kawa, the world’s indisputable
leading soaring pilot. He lets slip where he gets his competition
soaring weather forecasts from and you would never guess it in a 1000
years. And they are there for you too!

5. Our expert on sailplane instruments reports on all the new goodies
that are to be available in 2013. Competition pilots/owners can’t
afford to miss this report.

6. Bet you didn’t know Flarm employs over 40 staff now and is the
gliding success story of the decade. Flarm research has led them in
all sorts of directions. Flarm and their associates have now
manufactured over 35,000 Flarm type units. Read about the start of
the company in 2004, their first assembly line (the kitchen table) and
their future.

7. Ritz again reports from Europe and tells us about the multitude of
1000 km triangles being flown world wide. Almost an every day event
nowadays.

8. Maria Szemplinska produces some original new photographs for
soaring pilots to ‘ogle’ over.

9. South African manufacturer Jonker sailplanes details just how
they fitted out a test sailplane to produce induced flutter and how to
control it.

10. The history of Windward Performance makes great reading, how it
all came about, what they working on and the future of this exciting
company that is emerging as a force to be reckoned with.

11. Giorgio Galetto, a world top Italian soaring pilot had a
disastrous accident in the French Alps earlier in 2012. He analyses
all the mistakes he made and felt he should let others know just how
easy it is to end up on a hospital bed. A lesson that everyone should
read

12. A ‘do all – provide everything’ glass instrument that needs no
installing is amongst some of the latest instruments to reach the 2013
market. The Dynon is worth looking at despite that it is not
certified as this report is written. The Dynon has a future which you
can read about in the latest Gliding International.

13. At last - a simple easily applied new Nasal Spray for motion
sickness. NASA has got into the act on finding a solution to this
problem (airsickness- sea sickness) and thrown a lot of money at the
problem.

14. Details on a new on-line course to improve your radio
transmission abilities. The online training program labelled ‘Sound
like an airline pilot’ is a ready solution to any problems you may
have. Inexpensive too!

15. Big development strides in having drones fly with collision-
avoidance technologies. Successful trials show that the answer to
this thorny problem is very near.

16. The British Gliding Association has reduced the minimum age for
first solos to 14. A Scottish lad achieved this milestone just three
days after the new regulations come into force.

17. FAA reports that fatal accidents in sporting aviation have
increased by 25% over the pat 10 years whilst accident numbers are
basically static at 6.8 per 100,000 flight hours (six times higher
than commercial operators). More details in this issue.

PLUS A MULTITUDE OF OTHER INTERNATIONAL STORIES THAT PROVIDE GREAT
READING.

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