Well soaring isn’t dead everywhere. Today we got 14 flights in, private ships, and all three of the 1-26’s and solo flights in the club blanik. Social distancing in order, wipe downs of the club birds and all had fun. We didn’t need any ventilators but we did get up close to 7,000ft, thats...

You will only improve if you are honest with yourself and admit your weaknesses. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. A tow rope looses 50% of its strength with a knot it in. For those who have tasted flight, their eyes will be forever turned skyward.. And for those who have tasted...

I'm very much saddened to have just learned the Andreas Lubitz, the 28- old who deliberately seems to have flown the A 320 into the mountains started flying in a Glider Club (Montabaur). He was still a member and renewed his glider license in 2014 that he had since his teenage-years. If confirmed,...

On Mar 5, 12:55 pm, Sean Fidler wrote: I have an intern currently working on a slightly different project for US flights in an effort to isolate for potential cloud flying incedents over thousands of competition flights. It has been very interesting so far. More later. He...

Lessons to be learned? http://avherald.com/h?article=4320f1c2 Join the discussion.

I would appreciates some suggestions…..I am looking for the ideal place to live in the US – for soaring (I have not told my wife how massively weighted this particular criterion is!). I am overseas now and more than likely we will return to the US this summer. I have spent hours on the net...

Hi Race Fans The proposed contest rules changes for 2009 are available at the SSA web site under Sailplane Racing/Rules& Process. Due to a long time in developing some of these changes the comment period will be quite short. Please comment to RC members by 1/7/2009. Debate on this site will be...

Which vehicle to tow a glider trailer has been debated ad nauseum on RAS. I have always been a staunch supporter of towing with a full-size truck. After the events of last Thursday, I feel my position is vindicated. I was towing my sailplane westbound on Interstate 40 near Gallup, NM. I had...

More bad news in a tough year. Heartfelt condolences to all involved. http://kezi.com/news/local/138726 Craig

Another question regarding the above battery type! There are variety of techniques used when switching between batteries - on/off/on switches, good switches with a cut out between the movement, two batteries with a diode to prevent flow between both batteries, etc. The question I have concerns an...

OK, the peanut gallergy is driving me crazy. So I did a quick internet search and found this very relevant document from FLARM: How to Use FLARM(R) in Gliding Competitions? http://www.segelflugbedarf24.de/flarm/download/Flarm_Competitions.pdf The document includes some pretty interesting...

Saratoga NY, news report here http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s3911217.shtml?cat=10114&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

By all means a second battery should be installed in our electrically driven modern sailplanes. After many years of quickly flipping my 3-position battery switch, and trying not to have my logger to momentarily dropout, I have concluded that is best to use 2 single-pole battery switches. That way...

No scores or news about the crash, what's up? If Charly is not at the contest, we may never hear.

2014: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GYqUEaesROmKdkzS2Y1h7MSBUrQCdfydJxu6WnSbzOQ/edit?usp=sharing 2013: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NO7073Z6J-r77aUbR1oOEKrusXwfYf4amtaem_Rw-E4/edit?usp=sharing 2014 US Tasking Highlights Total Number of Tasks - 189 TATs - 122 or 65% MATs -...

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...

Hi, FLARM has become extremely popular in several regions of the world (Europe, and Australia, and ...?), but it has not been "allowed" in the USA so far. However, there are several gliders flying with FLARM here in the USA. It is a great technology solution and safety enhancer. But technical...

Does anybody have anything to say about the accident described in Soaring magazine concerning a pilot who could not land to a stop on a 6,000 foot paved runway or the parallel dirt runway to the South? I know this sounds very judgemental and I don't ordinarily make negative comments about an...

I received an email stating that my diamond goal flight has been rejected due to a typo on my igc declaration. Despite the fact that the security was good, all turnpoints rounded ok, and everything else good, it's still rejected. On the IGC declaration where it says "registered ID" I typed in...

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...