A number of years ago during the course of the closing of the old Black Forest Glider Port, I purchased a signed print of wave clouds over NZ. This print measures about 20 X40, (acutally it's a bit larger than that). In the lower left hand corner of the print are what looks like the words Taieri...

The only negative thing I can think about when flying from Moriarty, NM is that unless you want to spend big bucks on distilled water, you have to use the local stuff which leaves hard water deposits on the glider. Does anyone have any good solutions, (yes, pun intended) for this problem? Zulu

OK, so un-sung hero may be a bit strong, but I thought Tom Kelly did an excellent job of getting the Region nine contest off the ground. Although I might have missed the cudos he was given during the awards dinner, I don't recall anyone singling him out. The low stress, (as low stress as a contest...

I'm in the process of researching ELT's for my Discus 2. Problem is with all that carbon fiber, I don't know were to install the antenna. Any suggestions? Zulu P.S. Wags with alternate suggestions as to where to stick the antenna, please remember this is a family site.

As most of you who follow the machinations of this little on line group know, the US will be sending a team of at least two, perhaps three pilots to the Junior WGC in Rieti this summer. At this point we have the pilots, but nothing for them to fly. It is our fond hope that within the next few...

Got my Junior Team Calendars. They look great! Every bit as good as the SSA ones and no shots of a 2-33. The are printed on quality paper, and I think a bit more artfully done than the SSA ones, (just my opinion, but feel free to flame away.) The most important thing about the Junior Team...

A fright dog friend is looking for a 1-35 and I thought I saw one for sale in the PHX area but have not been able to relocate it. Any one out there know something about that? Buhler, Buhler? Zulu, (Billy Hill)

During the course of our regional at Moriarty we had a very close encounter....something on the order of seven feet. One of the two pilots involved made a comment on twenty three point three regarding the manner in which the other pilot had entered the thermal. That evening our CD Tom Kelly...

A friend from Tucson showed up at Fidel's shop for some work on his Discus2b and it was discovered that the black plastic tool that fits into the end of the wing tip for both rigging as well as trailering had broken in two. I examined the ones I have for my Discus and discovered evidence of...

Sundance Aviation in conjunction with the Albuquerque Soaring Club will host it's second OLC camp from June 4th til June 12th. Entry fee will be $200.00. For more details contact Sundance Aviation at (505-832-2222) or Bob Hudson (ASC pres.) at 505-832-5072 ).

C F I-G's Perhaps by now you have read SOARING editor Eric Bick's statement regarding the start of a new department entitled CFI-G Corner. On page thirty-eight is an article I wrote along the lines of teaching techniques or perhaps different ways of presenting safety related information,...

In an effort to get "Big Ugly's" water ballast system working correctly I was hoping one of you might have the dump adjustment screw from the ballast rocker. I only need one and prefer not to spend 500 Euros on a service contract. This is for an LS-3a, but they are the same on many LS's and I...

Anybody got a junk trailer with a fiberglass Tailwheel cavity/recess/ holder they'd be willing to part with? Thanks in advance Bryce

Rumor has (had), it that the Feds were about to authorize a nation wide non-discrete transponder code for gliders which was to be 0000 in lieu of the current VFR squawk of 1200. Does anyone know anything about this or is this just another pipe dream? Zulu

OK guys, I know you are out there. Could I please get some feed back on computer programs designed to fulfill the above mentioned information? Thanks. Zulu

I have an S80 and just installed the remote stick. Everything is working fine except the sc glide/climb momentary switch. Pressing it cycles through the menus as if it is wired together with the 'enter' button. It doesn't change between climb and cruise modes as expected. I have auto-switching...

I had to replace the axle on my Komet trailer. I now have 5 lug wheels on it. The old 13in 4-lug wheels are available (3 wheels, no tires). They are in good shape, no rust, fresh white paint on two of the wheels. Southern California.

I hooked up reed sensors from my spoilers and landing gear to the S80 expecting to get voice warning but it isn't working. I know it is hooked up right because the hardware page displays the sensed positions. Gear up = red, gear down = green. Spoilers retracted = green, Spoilers open = red. ...

I loaded the latest firmware and got a peculiar issue. The numbers around the vario rosette are not displayed when the units are US or English. They display fine in metric units. I reloaded it twice and got the same result.. Anyone seen this problem but me? -Dirk

I have an interesting radio problem hopefully one of you have solved... My transmitted audio signal is clipping. It 'breaks up' intermittently during the transmit cycle. After many hours of checking everything, I found an interesting correlation. When the radio squelch circuit is turned off...