The Blue Ridge Soaring Society is looking for a used L-Nav vario repeater to install in the back seat panel of our ASK21. Please contact me directly @hotmail.com, peter_pfortner PF

For those of you who don't have See You flight soaring software, you will like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCXmUv-1k4w

It's a rainy day here and so I sort of drifted into watching a few of Bruno Vassel's awesome "Scenery tours of Utah" videos on YouTube. I bet most people have no idea that the mountains seperating the dusty, brown valleys of Utah are so green and intersting on top! Then I started reading the...

The winter is just too long and I need something to fill the time with that's related to soaring...time for a new panel! :) Everything is in first-quality condition. For Sale: Cambridge 302 and 303 Secure GPS flight recorder, vario and flight manager. $1,700 ($2,500+ new) Cambridge GPS model 25...

I am trying to find this sailplane. It was brought to the US in 1970 or so by Elmer Katinszky. It then went to the East Coast in 1979, then to the Pacific Northwest in 1980, and returned to Souther California in about 1984. Sometime between 1984 and February 1987, the aircraft was destroyed. At...

Any experience on the optimal material, mixture, and material source for bubble bombing ? Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Dave "YO electric" PS: For those who don't know, "Bubble Bombing" is making soap bubbles come out when you dump water ballast...

I just picked up a bucket had that pretty much every glider pilot wears, but I don’t want to wear is because I feel like it limits visibility way more than my baseball cap does. With the baseball cap basically visibility is only limited when looking up, but with the bucket had visibility is...

Here's a link to a video from the 2014 Budapest (my favorite city - after Nephi, Minden, Julian, Warner Springs, the Mynd, and North Yorkshire - that is/are?). I know they are all powered aircraft, but the flying skills are remarkable. You will also see why those who have been to Budapest succumb...

My old orbital buffer died, so I am throwing the question to US RAS members to suggest a replacement. I know they run the whole gamut from $29 to $999 - looking for a recommendation for a reliable and cost-effective unit. Mike

Since the season is just getting started, I know this is an older topic, but I have to ask again about how other glider owners approach this. My experience is using both "Meguires Products" and finish up with Harly Wax. I use also the vertical buffing wheels associated with what is commonly...

Hi Folks - We found and fixed a bug that caused some NDB files not to load properly from a USB memory stick using the new USB adapter (only some NDBs without airspace). The bug is in the software within the USB adapter (not the SN10 software). (1) Download the file...

I'm shopping for bug wipers for my ASW27B, and am curious to hear from others with experience, especially in this model. Bug wipers are not very common in the US. Thanks John Cochrane

Brousing today's science news turned up a bit of research on the self-cleaning properties of titanium dioxide - a pigment used in 'superwhite' paints. From a Science Daily story on self-cleaning bathrooms: "The particles work by absorbing ultraviolet light below a certain wavelength, exciting...

Hi anybody know about cheap electric system for bugwipers? Thanks, Luka

Anyone else catch the 2 second glider video shown as part of the Buick invitational yesterday? I didn't see the entire match, but I was visiting relatives and caught probably the last 30-45 minutes (John Daly was on the 17th I think when I started watching). There was a quick glider shot of...

Group, Are plans available? Has anyone ever done it? I bet SSC could sell the dickens out of plans and kits if they made them available. I bet it would be a quick build too! Thoughts? GR

OK this is kind of silly but the the actual size of the PowerFLARM device has been discussed in other threads. And as pointed out there I think the renderings on the PowerFLARM web site makes the unit look a bit larger that it really is. Anyhow being a visual kind of person (and somebody who...

Brad wrote: Paint it in polyurethane and you can probably leave tied out about as well, too. Brad can tell us how long it takes to build one. Hi Eric, Building the Apis was actually a lot of fun, with good instructions, and advice from Robert Mudd I was able to complete the build...

We hope you Club and FBO leaders have given thought to recognizing one of your young line-crew workers and have prepared an application to send in to SSA by the 4/30 deadline. See www.soarcsa.org/ssa/ssay/byfs.htm . We really would like to increase the award's soar-selfishly stipend, currently at...

We hope you Club and FBO leaders have given thought to recognizing one of your young line-crew workers and have prepared an application to send in to SSA by the 4/30 deadline. See www.ssa.org/Youth/youthships.asp and www.coloradosoaring.org/ssa/ssay/byfs.htm (inc. application PDF). We really would...