New forum at the weather site Glidemet http://glidemet.co.uk/glidetalk/ Looks like its been up a couple of weeks. rlj

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder but the Slngsby T-53B listed for sale on W&W has to be one of the homliest gliders I've ever seen. Still outperforms the slightly less ugly 2-33 (which I'll likely be flying soon), though. Mike ASW15

Team Lüsse pilots Rick Walters and Garret Willat will be hosting a US Team training seminar in conjunction with the Montague Sports Nationals and concurrent Regional. Dates will be June 29 - July 5 and they will provide a morning session as well as individual ground instruction. There will be no...

I have a handy little BlueTooth GPS logger. I can download files and then display on GPSVisualer.com, but would love to be able to use soaring programs to analyze in greater detail. GPSBabel does not support icg, and programs like SeeYou do not appear to accept NMEA or types of files generated by...

I am pleased to announce that at the suggestion of John Seaborn, GlidePlan will be making contest maps available for all 2008 SSA sanctioned contests on our website. These maps will be constructed from current NACO sectional scans, valid as of the date of the contest. The map areas will...

I encountered the AMCC and the SecureAv website at http://www.secureav.com/ while web surfing today. The GAMCC (http://www.secureav.com/GAMCC.pdf) is the glider-specific version, and was "launched" in May 2007. I presume that means it was made publicly available at that time, and could be...

http://711reporting.blogspot.com/ photos, news and some views of mods............. Thermal tight, Soar high, Fly safe. # 711 reporting.

Want to buy Schleicher ASK-21. Contact Jane Barrett at (661) 822-5267.

Launch and grid photos ....... http://711reporting.blogspot.com/ # 711.

I would be gratful if anyone could send me the manaul (in English or German) of this bugwiper system. I have lost mine and I can not remember how to calibrate it. And Hohloch does not appear to have a web site. Thanks in advance Robert RD ASW 28-18E SWEDEN

Hi, A few weeks ago a customer of mine asked me to purchase and setup soaring software on a new iPAQ 210. I have avoided this PDA in the past because it doesn't have a built-in RS-232 serial port. But this customer used a CF GPS so the serial port was not necessary. I was very, very...

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:03:33 -0700 (PDT), WingFlaps wrote in : On Apr 28, 9:32*am, Larry Dighera wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:34:55 -0700 (PDT), WingFlaps wrote...

Has anyone been successful hooking a GPS engine up with an LX 1600 through the port where a Colibri would go? That would be with the GPS engine spliced to an RJ6 flat cable. That port should supply 12v to the GPS antenna. I am so far utterly defeated, trying to use a Garmin 18 PC. Any tips or...

I've seen a few threads around here about the future of 100LL fuel. Seems there is some hope after all. Swift Enterprises "Swiftfuel"! http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080505005358&newsLang=en WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Swift Enterprises...

I am thinking of upgrading my PDA for my GNII. The display should be readable in sun light. Presently I use a1550 as primary with a 302 and the 39xx as a back up with a 302A. Maybe I should get a CAI Nav display and one good PDA. Which one? Please make recomendations. Udo

Hi, It has been a long time but gliderpilot.net is almost ready to go back online! There are just a few more final tweaks and testing to be done and then the site will re-open. Thanks to everyone who has emailed in their support and also offers of help etc. - it is all much appreciated! I'll...

Yawns: Rich and young, but frugal NEW YORK (AP) — They drive hybrid cars, if they drive at all, they fly gliders not jets, they winch launch only, shop at local stores, if they shop at all and pay off their credit cards every month, if they use them at all. 'They may have disposable income, but...

Below is a pre-amble to a new yahoo group I have started to discuss thermals. I would ask all interested gliding pilots to join in and learn, or teach. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thermal_truth/ Ok, we know the shapes, triggers, the sizes, the volumes, the heights, the strengths, the distances...

Newly created Web Site of World Class Soaring Association: http://www.worldclasssoaring.org/ Current information, interesting articles, nice pictures. Waiting for new participants. Check it out. RK/GR8

Yes, it is an antique; but it works (when I removed it about three weeks ago). Electric variometer that drives three heads: Solle, vario and te Have vario and the three heads it drives. Offer (or I could really use a sailplane radio. Does anyone have an old Dittel they