I'm looking for a tow-out wheel for my Mini-Nimbus and came across this http://www.airtech-composites.com/piste.html. Does anyone have experience of this neat-looking design?

I have seen a number of glider advertised and most tell you the total time. Unlike a powered airplane which has a tach or a Hobbs meter, gliders seldom have any built in way to determine the actually time on the air frame. While people might try to inflate their personal flying time, I would not...

This weekend Bob Carlton brought his Bonus Jet glider to Phoenix for Arizona Soaring Association members to demo and presented a fine PowerPoint / video presentation after our BBQ dinner at Turf Soaring. What a great time we all had. The weather cooperated, and although it was a tad windy, there...

Updated US airspace information for the charting cycle effective May 5, 2011 is now available on my website at http://www.soaringdata.info; it should also be available on the Airspace section of the Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange soon. Updated US airport data in formats that support...

Gordo and Hugh are up in wave again, flying north/south/north/south along the eastern slope of the Sierras after a 6:30 launch out of Minden. Bob Spielman (Chukar) is also up, trying a 500 km speed and distance in an ultralight (Sparrowhawk) after a 10:30 launch. Both flights can be tracked by...

LNav Version 5.7 with 2.25" vario.-$475.00 (upgrade to 5.8 is $75.00). Terra 240D Transponder with alt. encoder. Yellow tagged two years ago and used for about 250 hours since- $650.00 Winter 5 STV 5-3 vario-$350.00 contact mike_carris at yahoo dot com.

Hello fellow aviators, I have just released a new version of the GliderGPS application for the iPhone and iPad (Version 1.0.3). It includes a Final Glide calculator, Speed to fly calculator, Lambert Conformal Conic maps (for loading your favorite official aviation maps), Thermal Optimizer, Usable...

15m Nationals participants Just got off the phone with the proprietor of the Cache RV park at Logan UT, confirming my reservations there for the US 15m Nationals. He confirmed his contest rate of $135/week, including water, sewage, electricity, and free wi-fi. This is a brand-new facility about...

I've read the past posts on using ~20% methanol to prevent tail ballast from freezing. I have these questions three: 1) Is methanol in any way corrosive to rubber parts/seals? 2) Is there a reason not to use ethanol if methanol can't be found? 3) Does a glider flying in the Great Basin area in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyoaizNimo

A reminder that there is a GNII user's group that all are welcome to join. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GNII I also found a StrePla Yahoo group. Are there similar groups for SeeYou, FlywithCE, etc? - John DeRosa

Thanks! The same baudrate is used on the computers and LX20. I would send my LX20 to you Paul: it needs calibration anyways ;) The problem is that it is my GPS souce for feeding my LX4000, so I have to find an alternative GPS source while the unit is in the "mail" :) I am trying the LXe software...

Hi, I tried downloading my first flight of the 2011 season from my LX20 (old hardware version). SeeYou connects fine, but after about a minute, it says that there was an error communicating, error code -14. I tried with 3 different computers, one with a serial port (not going through a...

The Wingmate can be used for one-person assembly or to take the load off the person handling the wingtip. It has wheels, folds up, and can be stored easily in a sailplane trailer. I used it so that my wife would not have to hold the weight of the wingtip. The Wingmate holds the weight, allows the...

With the growing popularity of the Online Contest, SoaringNV is trying a new kind of cross country soaring camp this summer: an OLC mentoring camp that we will repeat three times (May 24-29, July 25-30, and August 22-27) to include as many pilots as possible. This will be your chance to try...

Last Wednesday Gordon Boettger and Hugh Bennett flew a Duo Discus for 2,200 KM as measured by the OLC, making their flight the highest ranked OLC flight in world, beating even Klaus Ohlmann's and John Williams' flights in the Andes. Here's a description of the flight prepared by Doug Armstrong,...

I've had a Microair for about 3 years. It's rev P. I've found it to be very (extremely) sensitive to low voltage. But, that's not the issue for this discussion. I was flying a few days ago when it began to turn itself on and off in a more or less random fashion. All of my other electronics were...

My Colibri is interfering with my Microair. What do I need to do to fix that? Boggs

Video from Australia: http://www.recreationalflying.net/threads/i-almost-cried-libelle-sailplane-landing-wounded.26923/

Afternoon all, I'm back in Breckenridge, Colorado in September on vacation and would love to fly there but converting my license seems a heap of bother for a few flights. I see there is a company based in Boulder that offer trial flights at inflated prices but wondered if there may be any Co....