One of the more interesting uses of the new ssa sailplane tracker is getting to follow some of our fellow pilot's adventures when they drive around and forget to turn the spot off. Someone went from Mifflin to get a glider out of Baltimore today, and some how got in and out of the port in about...

The weather for next week is looking nothing short of outstanding. We have roughly 20 confirmed and could hit 23-24 by contest start this Saturday. Saturday June 22 is the practice day. Contest days June 23-29. Motor home hookups, camping, shower, plentiful restaurants and shopping within .5...

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THE JULY 2013 ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL e GO Our July issue will go in the mail on Wednesday. It is one of our very best and includes: • A review of seven new two seater sailplanes not previously announced and now being produced and marketed. • A six page evaluation of the Schempp-Hirth...

We are currently releasing feature-limited versions of the CNv-XC vario software. No license is required but there is an expiration date built into the releases. Once the XC software has been adequately tested we will release license-controlled versions. Serial communication between the ClearNav...

I've been flying with the Avier / V2 using LK8000 and noticed that the lower right corner of the screen was getting very spongy. It gets lots of use since that's where the "menu" button is. After taking it apart it became apparent why. There is no support behind the bottom edge of the screen and...

We're all waiting for you to put your money where your mouth is. Suggested donation to the US Junior Team is $100 per post you've forced us all to read, and $200 per post in the future. Maybe you'll learn to temper yourself when there is a financial penalty/reward involved. 2C

Any further information or new developments regarding the bolt failure discussed last year? Discussion found he http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.soaring/browse_thread/thread/5ab46ee572ef6bb6 Thanks, WD

Here's a brief review of my experience with PowerFlarm at last week's Region 9 contest in Moriarty. As some of you know, I've been a bit annoyed with some of my PowerFlarm experience - setup isn't really intuitive and it's hard to find all the info you need in the manual. The antennas are cheesy...

I have been using LK8000 v3.2 on this device, but with v4.0 I cannot get it to receive the internal GPS data. Any suggestions? Wolfgang

At the recent VSA meet in Lawrenceville I picked up an old capacity flask with a built in compensator. This is an old 1 pint vacuum bottle with a compensation bellows attached to the stopper. This gismo has a rubber bellows sandwiched between two metal plates. The bellows are attached to a second...

https://www.facebook.com/SailplaneWantAds Announcing an all new and TRULY FREE Facebook soaring want ads site! Add your for sale equipment to the Facebook community today watch it go viral within the Facebook soaring community in hours! A large segment of the soaring community is on Facebook...

Bravely bold Sir Robin Rode forth from Camelot He was not afraid to die Oh Brave Sir Robin He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways Brave, Brave, Brave Brave Sir Robin. He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows...

I suspect that a repair I did recently on the TE probe on my DG 800B didn't work. So it's time to get a replacement. My factory probe is 8mm but the end that fits into the receptacle has a small reduced diameter section (4mm) that must fit into a reduced diameter hole inside the receptacle. My...

To all the more computer-savvy glider guiders in the US: I am trying to download the .cup file for SeeYou for Hobbs. All I am getting is a file with a double extension .cup.txt! The instructions given on the exchange server do not work since I have either Google Chrome or IE7 installed. Can anyone...

Hello Everybody, I received the following email from a friend of mine who lives in Argentina and would like to help, but I don't know how to find these parts. "I´m writing you because I need some help in finding some spare part for a Cirrus 75 that belongs to my gliding Club in Argentina. Last...

http://www.hauteprovenceinfo.com/article/17/06/2013/alpes-de-haute-provence--un-homme-de-46-ans-meurt-dans-un-crash-de-planeur/2599 Appears to have hit a cliff. Drop link into google translate if you cannot read French! Sean F2

Two comments/questions: 1. I had purchased a panel mount extension USB cable to allow me to plug the USB drive into the panel for upgrades and flight downloads. I didn't think anything about the cable type but after doing the install I can not download flights. I started looking at the cable and...

I put this into a new topic in order not to SPAM other topics where this question came up. I thought that a vario needed to use the 3-D inertial sensor to sort out the horizontal and vertical components of "gusts", and I thought that nobody was doing that just yet. Or does the inertial sensor...