I know someone out there in cyberspace has this answer.... If one declares TP's in the air, or post task...can this flight qualify for a 1,000k diploma? Or do I misunderstand the 3 Free rules? How would that differ from the Diamond Distance requirements? Or does it differ?

If there is anyone interested, and maybe coming this way after the SSA convention or anytime soon I have a glider and trailer near the convention that I'd be happy to pay (not too much :o) someone to deliver if possible...... Even part way would be of interest. please let me...

I remember some pictures of a carbon fibre pure glider that caught fire when it hit some high tension wires during an outlanding. The pilot had time to walk away (and was luckily able to do so), but couldn't extinguish the fire. Most of the fuselage and part of the wing burned up. The fire was...

nothing much here, you may as well go away. Tango4 signing off and re-inventing myself as Nimbus GB. T4 was a long time ago ( company name ) may as well keep up with the times I suppose. eMail and all accounts changed as a result of service provider changeover

My guess is that the fatalities we saw last season are the reason ELT's are being considered. Making contest pilots use them is the logical first step, very clever. I sat in the local airport restaurant for over 2 hours coordiating with the local Police and SAR folks last spring, we were pretty...

I would like to make contact with clubs or owners that have had, or are coming up to a 3000hr life extenstion requirement. Our club owned LS6-b is about to be grounded due to a lack of a factory inspection schedule for the 3000 hr extenstion. Despite many requests by us, our engineer, and national...

I have upgraded my panel, and in order to do so removed my Borgelt B100 flight computer. It's a very nice unit; I especially appreciated the two-in-one vario and the thermal strength graph. This unit has the GPS receiver and antenna. Versus newer units, the pieces are bigger (though the live...

Need a sailplane Tow Bar. Mine departed Marfa somehow last summer. Californians: Bring your used tow bar to the SSA Convention for cash! Send details to Burt Marfa Gliders cell: 800-667-9464

I'd like to hear what pilots with TPAS think about them; for example: * can you always avoid airliners and smaller airplanes? * are these a good/lousy substitute for a transponder? * how do they work out in the "highly congested areas" Tim mentions? * do you wish you had a transponder anyway? * is...

After seeing first hand the eggshell strength properties of glass cockpits when they hit objects, I have been thinking about how much protection I don't have between my spine and terra-firma. I have the astronaut foam, and otherwise it is just the seatpan and glass. I was chatting with my...

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Department for Trade have now published their report on the accident at Husbands Bosworth on 18th January 2004, both pilots were killed. The report may be found at http://www.aaib.gov.uk/sites/aaib/cms_resources/HCD.pdf , it runs to 21 pages. W.J....

I bought two Panasonic 7,2a/h batteries and I am very disappointed. Lucky for me I had two Yuasa 7.0 a/h units, one of which was still in good working order. I was able to get a direct comparison between the two. Both Panasonic batteries show at least a 25% less performance compared to Yuasa. This...

Dick Butler at the 1983 worlds flying his (now mine) ASW22-N58DB. Thanks Al

Hi, I just learned that the LX Navigation LX160 has been replaced with the new LX160si. The new model offers very easy connection for a Colibri and a Pocket PC. It also provides 5V power (2A) for the Pocket PC. The original LX160 did not have that ability. I purchased an original LX160 for my...

Group, Time to get serious about selling the Russia. Price reduced to $15,995. Year 2000 150 TT Altimeter Winter Airspeed Winter mechanical vario

Anyone know what the gliding situation is in Latvia? Its a tiny country, is there any activity? Ian

This question is motivated by the recent discussion about deriving polars from flight logs. We know that GPS fixes have some amount of (absolute) error. What is their accuracy relative to each other? In other words, when I'm analyzing flight logs, how accurately can I calculate something like sink...

The RAFGSA is looking at catering for the 15M Nationals/Inter Services and have identified a number of potential caterers in the local area. We would however prefer a gliding experienced soup dragon if possible. Is there any individual or club who would like to consider providing the catering for...

Jeff Farrow created the Polar Glider Software located in Australia. All the final glide calculators (JSW,Wright and Stocker)that it produces are only available in kilometers from what I can tell in Version 1.1. Does anyone know if the program was ever modified to support either miles or nautical...

What about the fact that we expose ourselves to 1,000,000's of instances of instinctively responding to the string by stepping in the direction the front end points to? Would that not lead to some kind of conditioning that will have disasrtous results (i.e. pro-spin rudder) when making a visual...