Has anyone tried using the "Bell No-Mor Flats" foam rubber material in a tail wheel tire as a safety backup. It looks like the 1.75" diameter cut to the correct length might be a good safety backup if the tail wheel tire gets punctured. 9U

I need to replace my 24 year old crew radio. The current radio sits in it's charger base 98% of the time, with the charger power on. At home, it's connected to an external speaker that's in my wife's sewing room and to an antenna on the roof; in the motorhome, we use it's internal speaker, but...

We have set a Date for the Crystal Derby (formerly Crystal Dash). The event will be on Sunday, July 24th. (Safety/Pilots Meeting @ 9:00AM) The course will be open after the meeting, and we will fly till we can't stay up (or the sun goes down). The Southern California Soaring Academy will have...

Does anybody know who 'won' the auction for the Speed Astir in October (ish) 2009? I would like to get in touch the him. TIA Jim

Is anyone planning to fly Ely between July 9th and 14th? Thanks, Michael "BK"

I recently purchased an LS7. On days when I eat only a light breakfast, I'm awfully close to the lower limit of 165lbs for weight and balance purposes. There is a vertical post way forward near the nose that is set up to accommodate a stack of 2.5kg / 6lb ballast/trim blocks, but...

Someone at the gliderport brought in a 1969 version of "Joy of Soaring". It was fascinating to flip through the pages. Many things are the same then as now. There were several pictures of gliders; Diamant, Standard Libelle, 1-26, 2-33, Sisu, Skylark 4, Dart, Kestrel - all of which I have heard of...

I have one of these hand held radios and there is an "E" that is flashing on the top, left of the screen and it keeps it from accepting any other key strokes. You can enter a new frequency, but you can not save it and lock the keyboard. Any ideas? Thanks, Fred Blair Houston, Tx

Reports are available either on the SSA contest reports site for Region 2 North, or at SoaringCafe.com. Enjoy TA

On Saturday, July 2, 2011 4:01:08 PM UTC-7, Darryl Ramm wrote: Many folks will probably use the TinyTrak see http://www.byonics.com/tinytrak/ A lot of SoCal folks are using the MicroTrak http://www.byonics.com/mt-rtg I just used mine for the first time on Saturday. I added a second aircraft to...

On Jun 27, 5:28*pm, Ron Gleason wrote: I have been posting daily updates onwww.soaringcafe.comfor the 18 Meter Nationals. The results are posted herehttp://ssa.org/members/contestreports/contestresultsdetail.asp?id=216... Most pilots, only 15 here, flew 7 days...

Put head through canopy yesterday, in severe turbulence in pattern @ BDU,CO. Any body have, and want to sell, a workable new or used canopy? or know the where- abouts of a serviceable unit? CLang

Anyone have a scan of the Rico manual? I have a Rico vario in my recently purchased 1-26E and while I did find a PDF of the manual (somehow) a week ago, I can't seem to find it again... have been searching for hours. Thanks tom

Does the LK8000 software work with the Cambridge 302? Interested to know if the LK8000 running on an iPAC 310 can get accurate wind data from the 302. thanks, Brad

Let the jokes begin... :) My Cambridge L-Nav's backup battery ran low and I switched it out. The settings got reset to default. Now field elevation reads 4" millibars too low. For example, 6,200 feet the awos said pressure was 29.99 and my Cambridge read 29.54 for that elevation. On start up...

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We need new cushions, front & back, for our SZD 50-3 "Puchacz" glider. The original ones have been eaten up by the sun. Can anyone recommend a shop which can do the job ? Thanks, Charles V.

I can't seem to connect to the server... Did it move? http://soaringweb.org

http://blog.delorme.com/2011/06/03/delorme-inreach-two-way-satellite-communication/ Looks like starting in the 2012 year we will see a competitor to SPOT product and service. Read some of the comments in the blog and some features a - user selectable data send interval - custom messages in...

Hi Jim, Today, Fri 07/01 was the first day of a building warm core high pressure aloft. Traditionally, there's a lot of subsidence capping inversions which makes it very poor day. Noted a flight out of Bishop where the best altitude on the Whites was only about 13,500 with a lot of close ridge...