We are having trouble at our airport. Our airport, here in Oregon, USA, is owned by The Port of Hood River, and is federally funded. It’s a small, uncontrolled airport and on a busy day, probably has about a dozen non glider flights. We generally fly our gliders on the windy days, and have the...

I have recently started gliding again after a long absense. I no longer have funds to support my power plane habit and am soaring as less expensive means of getting airborne. I am surprised to see that winch tows in the USA are still almost non existant. Why not. Surely a winch is much cheaper...

Does any one know what process you would have to go through to import a G-reg glider into Germany and transfer onto the German register? Ie what would a German buying a glider from blighty have to do?

Got a question: the Butterfly wind vector and the XCSoar wind vector (derived from Butterfly information) seem to disagree by 180 degrees. That is they point toward each other. XCSoar seems to believe it too, based on glide calculations. I am using the LX format output on the Butterfly. I am...

Hello pilots. My father, who spent 50 years flying gliders and light aircraft, has written and self-published a nice little book about his years in the air. He's disappointed with the anemic sales of the book at the moment and i thought that maybe the soaring community at large might know of small...

Todd Smith posted: I was a new guy in soaring about 7 years ago and as I was working on my Silver badge, got a lesson in how to smoke a windup barograph and all that. I bought a used thermal electric model that required no screwing around, all I had to do was put it in the glider. I then

I am looking to compile a list of 'The Ultimate Soaring Adventures'. I'd appreciate any input from the forum on what they see as the pinnacle of soaring whether it is a 1000km task, flying New Zealands wave or some other goal that may be beyond the day-to-day pilots reach. I'll put up a list on a...

ASW-27 For Sale Located in Midlothian, Texas at Texas Soaring Association No damage history (except for usual scrapes under belly - typical of 27s) Built 1998 Standard Airworthiness Cert. 440 Hours TT Dittel Radio Cambridge GPS / LNAV w/ PDAs - GNII & bracket ILEC Backup Vario O2 with MH controller

Some type-specific sailplane canopy resources in the US: Aircraft Windshields, Inc, in my experience the best in the aircraft transparency biz: Los Alamitos, CA, no Web site --Gliders various, just ask (incl. 2-seat Lark, I think) --Custom tooling and acrylics ThermoTec (Ray Poquette), advertises...

Since I have been unable to get access to the XCSoar forum thus far, I thought I'd go ahead and post my questions here. I just got a used Dell Streak 5 that was previously an AT&T one. It appears it is Android 1.6 and seems to be functioning fine. I attempted to install XCSoar using wifi. I first...

Does any country run competitions in the IGC Club Class? USA does not. We have the Sports Class, which allows any glider to enter, and another Sports Class (called, locally, the Club Class) which uses a restricted list of gliders that is different from the IGC Club Class list. In another thread,...

Would appreciate any feedback as I am considering buying Stuart KInnear

I just put together a REALLY cheap system for budding LVVSA XC pilots to use. Here's the breakdown: iPAQ 3870 - ebay $22.50 including shipping (I bought a 'lot' of 5) New battery - $20.00 Bluetooth GPS from Semsons $23.60 including shipping http://www.semsons.com/amabg108blgp.html XCSoar - Free I...

Hi Folks, My friend has a pair of Asw19 winglets for sale (Slip on). One is in perfect condition, the other has a break at the bottom, easily repairable. Since he does not own the ship anymore he has no need for them. Contact Dave for details

Apple is rumored to have a smaller, 7" iPad in the works to compete with the Kindle Fire which would make it more accomodating in the cockpit for a nav aid than the 11" version. (There may also be a touch- screen in development with realistic tactile feel from a company in Sweden). Anyone have an...

Our club (CCSC) is starting to think about providing real-time SPOT- based glider track displays for ground crew/spectators for our 2009 Region 6 contest, and I was wondering if other clubs were considering similar programs. Sure would be a cool thing if the SSA and/or SRA were to provide a...

January 4 - 5, 2008 We had two very successful days of wave soaring in SE Oklahoma. Yes, Oklahoma! We also had a couple of great ridge flights 3 months ago in the...

Are there any working designs for an air extractor for the Ventus 2?

Seen this? http://www.flarm.com/index_en.html Radar and transponders are just so 20th century. John Galloway

"Snead1" wrote in message I am currently flying with a Cambridge GPS NAV and a L-Nav. I would like to upgrade or add equipment to help me fly the Turn Area Task. What works well and what are the important features that can aid in making correct deci- sions while flying...