When I flew for the Air cadets, we used to just tie a reefknot in the cable and tape over the 'tails' with the same tape as racing cyclists used to use for their handlebars(basically cloth tape) . You need to leave about 4' tails. This worked fine and takes about 30 seconds to do with a good team....

MARFA 2004 APRIL 3 - 11: Dick Johnson's annual Marfa Wave Camp, with guest instuctor Bob Wander, author of many soaring books and mentor to thousands of glider pilots. MAY 28 - 30: "Wings and Wheels" Memorial Day weekend Fly-In for airplanes, gliders, vintage cars and motorcycles. Pancake...

With Spring and a new season arriving, here are some absolutely GREAT news for the World Class: - Our Breakfast event at the Convention was the best attended ever. A full room, with 36 attending, made this the largest breakfast event for the World Class, and one of the largest breakfast events at...

We have added new info to our web site. Motels, chute prep, pilot requirements and more. Check us out @ www.region5sports.com. Thanks, Sam.

I noticed this being considered by the FIA http://flarm.com/index_en.htm Page 18 of the minutes... Agenda item 12 http://www.fai.org/gliding/meetings/2004/igc_minutes2004.pdf FLARM

If you were wondering how Dune Running works: Nistal Wloczysiak (pilot and producer of the T31 videos) has made a marvellous, 30 minute film about this subject. You can get it at http://gliding.hoppenrath.com/texte/glidingvideos.htm - look for "Hellingvliegen" Detlev --

Hello ! I am addressing to you to ask you about possibility of renting Open Class glider ASW 22, ASH 25 or Nimbus 4 for Polish Team for European Gliding Championships in Lithuania – Pociunai 19.07-08.08. 2004. This glider will be used by Robert Sleczkowski, 5-th in Open Class on EGC 2002. We would...

To celebrate the Spring Equinox, I hauled the Nimbus to Boulder, Colorado yesterday for the year's first flight. The 21Z ETA Blipmap forecast looked strange to say the least and I wasn't convinced that it was accurate. The blipmaps showed a strong subsidence over the mountains just west of...

Anyone familiar with the soaring opportunities within driving distance of San Antonio? Best time of year to fly? Thanks. Mike

Testing 1-2-3

Hi, I flew a 300K flight yesterday (Friday) that I tried to submit to the OLC. They keep denying my flight. I will give some facts below so we don't have to go through them. If you think you may know the answer, I will E-Mail you the flight and let you have a look. 1. Yes, it is a Cambridge 2....

The silent sport of soaring can risk an unfortunate reputation with community neighbors by operating loud towplanes. Mile High Gliding, Inc., a commercial glider operator in Boulder, Colorado, now offers a solution. They have acquired an STC for fitting a smaller diameter four-blade propeller to...

Did some soaring in Moriarty, NM (0E0) today to get prepared for my check ride. We did the boxing the wake (flying a vertical rectangle pattern behind the towplane), steep turns, stalls, slips. I did quite ok, so I hope to get my checkride soon. But it was really fun to ride the thermals of 8kn or...

We will have a new Safety Video, "Preventing Landing Accidents" available by March 24th. This video was professionally done in February at the FAA studio in Lakeland, Florida, and is about 50 minutes long. With 64% of all fatal glider accidents occurring in the landing phase, this video can give...

New unflown Duo Discus Turbo for sale. Komet deluxe trailer with brakes and two man rigging. Includes Becker VHF and head sets coms and Cambridge 302. Mode c xponder and E.D.S oxygen system included. Situated in NZ. Genuine reason for selling. This sailplane is ready to go now and is very complete...

1993 Grob G103C Twin III SL (Self Launch) All Over White with Blue Stripe (Was repainted in 1995 as factory paint had some flaws) Total time - 222.0 hrs Engine Time - 61.4 hrs Rotax 505A Last Annual - 9/3/03 No Damage History

Hi! I'm trying to install LXE. The problem is, that we have a strict user management on our club-pc. Administrator account and a user account with normal user right... Installing LXE with the user-account isn't possible. Installing LXE from administrator account is possible, but the normal...

I would like to test the interface and because of that I need the Cambridge 302 instrument output. I would like to ask 302 owners if they can send me the instrument output. You can record the output with Hyper Terminal program (standard Windows Accessory). Connect the 302 to the PC and start Hyper...

When Kent and I arrived in Marfa Saturday, we were greeted with a blazing sun, higher than usual humidity, and NO wind. At 11:30 AM cu's were already forming over the mountains. By 1:00 there were clear signs thar it would probably overdevelop, but there was a high cloud street leading toward Van...

Hi Dave (Martin), My compliments to Jan Szladowski (whom I know) and your very good self. 'Kwadrat', in Polish, is a 'square' - as in the geometrical figure with four, equal, sides. In the gliding context, it refers to the launch point.