As a still under 40, very active standard class pilot with an LS8 and a Duckhawk on order, and who has flown a few regionals and one nationals (Montague 2012), I'll chime in with a few observations about why I haven't been very motivated to fly any US-based competitions this year. (1) Time...

Three cheers. The "US club class" section of the ongoing sports nationals has 17 pilots flying. Two (silent, apis) are below the usual club limit, which makes a bit of a case for allowing such gliders in club class in the future. Three more (2 x 304 flying in 17 meter, and 1 x genesis II) could...

A JS-1C crashed today near Houston. Pilot died.

Peter, I've been lurking here and seriously considering where I stand with your proposal of combining STD and CLUB class at the Nationals. Initially, I favored having STDs join with 15M since I fly a very competitive Discus 2A which can do well as demonstrated this year by myself at Montague. I...

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to research the FAA database to find out if a glider has a standard airworthiness certificate or must be registered in the experimental category? Thanks, Uli

32cf Aluminum O2 cylinder, Hydro 6/11 A-14 Diluter Demand Regulator Oxygen Mask (one elastic strap has broken, do not know if it can be repaired or not) o2 bailout bottle (it's charged) Blinker o2 monitor Regulator was removed from glider after purchase, I do not know condition. Was told it worked...

Hi guys, I'm trying to get my new KRT2 radion to function. I bought an adapter with it to simply plug in my old ATR720 wiring. All seemed well, except there was no sound coming off the speakers on receive (or when opening up squelch). We then tried using the original wiring loom, rewiring...

Can anybody give me guidance with a problem I have in See You. I cant seem to get Andrej to respond. I have the latest version of See you 6.15. I cannot seem to get the vector map display or the satellite map to come up in the 3D view. I get a picture of the glider and the trace over a tan...

Many of the larger clubs in the UK have a two seat, touring motor glider which is used for navigation and off field landing training, pattern practice, particularly practice at dealing with patterns started too low or in the wrong place and PRACTICE LAUNCH FAILURES, PARTICULARLY THOSE REQUIRING...

Does anybody have a manufacturer issued, English language POH for a DG500 Elan Trainer which I could copy? Thanks, Uli

On Tuesday, February 2, 1999 8:00:00 AM UTC, Uwe Beger wrote: I'm a glider pilot from germany with no exp. in the alps. I've to decide to come with friends to Norway for soaring. (End of May, possibly Elverum?!) Yes I know, there are taking place the Norway championchips. Are there any...

Just as described. Leaves Tuesday of next week. Driver also continues on to Afghanistan from Mayrland, could possibly get U.S.A.F. to ship. :-) -Mitch

Flarm have updated their DLL file from version 1.5.1 to 1.5.3. This new version is now available for download from the GFAC and IGC web sites. DLL stands for "Dynamic Link Library" and is a file that links with other programs, in this case the IGC-Shell program for checking the electronic...

Not to be confused with the Soaring Hall of Fame for which nominations were just requested... Though some FLARM installations perhaps deserve nominations there too! I've recently received a lot of requests for the FLARM Antenna Hall of Shame advice, but sadly the original web page got trashed. Urs...

More on the nationals later in this post, let's give a quick update on how our OLC/XC event that ended a little over a week ago went. :) We had 65+ gliders show up from all over the USA and Canada and wow did we have fun! We flew over 100,000km during the week's time (that is 2.5 times around the...

I have an Ilec SB7 (same size as the SC7 but older) installed in a club glider. I'd like to get a blank MacCready disk to use on it (I'll build the numbers for the glider to mark on the disk). If you don't have a blank disk, how about something like a standard Libell disk that you have laying...

I am in need of a Winter 57mm ASI (0 - 160 kts.)Not enough room in the panel so have to take out the 80mm.

All - There's been some recent discussion on training XC pilots; and there was also a little bit of feedback in the Nephi thread about XC learning/mentoring.. So I wanted to share info about an event that our Region has been doing to encourage XC flying. Hopefully it sparks someone's interest...

I have been following multiple threads over time discussing how to get more pilots to become competition pilots. I had the pleasure of flying in the Region 10 North contest. The contest is specifically advertised to be "beginner friendly" and has 2 competition classes - Club and Low...

Here is my configuration: PowerFlarm brick and Trig T22 mod S transponder. PowerFlarm configured with the transponder code to disregard it. I get constant notifications of my own transponder; yesterday probably 100 times, not kidding. I will have to unplug LX9000 from the PowerFlarm as it is not...