A hangar with insulated ceiling and walls seems to have less moisture problems than one with no insulation. Along the same lines, it seems that the interiors of the newer double shell glass tops are dryer that the single shell metal top variety. Am I wrong? GA

NUTSO Spring Soaring Seminar Location: Salt Lake Main Library Date/Time: March 27th from 8:30 – 5:00pm Fee: free Refreshments: Light snacks and drinks in the morning; drinks (water) in the afternoon. Preliminary Schedule (subject to change) Waive Flying in Utah or Weather Forecasting Lynn...

Durango Soaring Club needs a CFIG 2nd week of May through 2nd week of October. Details and questions to La Vern or Beverly (970) 247-1941 web site seems offline at the moment

For Sale: 1.) Cambridge Audio Vario model CVS 60 H, Ser. # 3538. This is an early model with the separate audio box and two buttons (volume & threshold). Scale is 5m/s (10kts). Works great! 2.) Blank McCready Ring, snaps into the the front bezel of Vario and can be marked according to the polar...

I was helping a friend with his ASW-20, and we took a mystery instrument out. The instrument consists of a small project box containing a single layered printed circuit board, non-silk-screened, that holds 3 integrated circuits, a few resistor packs, a few capacitors and a 20K trim pot. Etched...

One of our Texas Soaring Association (TSA) members, Dave White, discovered a VHS tape in a dusty old drawer at TSA made by June Wiberg who compiled and narrated all of her old glider days home movies from the 40's to the early 60's and sent it to TSA. June was the wife of Wally Wiberg, who owned a...

I have been using charts made my Taylor Blackburn, the daughter of 9B, Andy Blackburn. The best I can say is they work very well in the cockpit and also, for planning purposes while on the ground. These charts come with the contest turnpoints and are laminated to last for several years. Much eaiser...

Does anyone have any info on winglets being installed on an LS6C 17.6 or other LS6's even 15m versions? If so, is anyone in the US making and installing the winglets? Is the gain worth the cost? Any info welcome.

New Video Ten Year Glider Accident Review DVD This is a DVD video of a safety speech made by Tom Knauff at the FAA Safety Center, in Lakeland Florida in February. An excellent review for spring safety meetings. Approximately 1 hour in length. $22.95 Order on-line at www.eglider.org

Hi All - As I got 1005 points Tuesday at the Seniors, it looks like 2.35 is good to go. The production 2.35 build has now passed flight testing and is generally available. Details at URL below. Pass the word ! http://www.ilec-gmbh.com/software.htm Enjoy ! Best Regards, Dave & Juergen

For those of you who fly in the southwest USA, I have created a new airspace file for the US/Mexico border: OpenAir format: http://www.justsoar.com/public/openair/mexico_border.txt SUA format: http://www.justsoar.com/public/sua/mexico_border.sua As usual I have some technical notes to help you...

Is it just me or are others having issues with reading comments on OLC? This has been happening to me for a while.

In response to a question from Leo Buckley about the details of SPOT operation, I spent some quality time with a SPOT customer service guy, and got some very interesting info about the new SPOT 2 tracker. With the old SPOT 1 devices, if you have it in the recommended tracking mode while flying,...

On Mar 25, 11:04*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote: The 302 can be very good with wind just with straight straight flight with changes in direction of +/- 30 degree or so. That's BS. My $0.02. I have a sample of one, but it has been extensively tested, TAS output verified,...

Many products come along and some might work. I have seen a wing that was yellowed on bottom and still quite white on top. The owners had been using wx/block on top only. So, does it work? I'd say "Yes". Tim, Bob, ...you can pay me later. kidding. GA

When our club bought its last Blanik also included was a large number of parts, both NOS and used, fuselage panels, etc. Hemet legal bills need to be paid so we are selling the parts to raise cash and save on storage costs. We are now cataloging them and deciding what we will keep -vs- sell. Send...

Seems to me that it's been a while since we had a good brouhaha over pretakeoff checklists. Most of use use either ABBCCCDDE (or is it AABBCCDDE? Or ABBBCCCCDDEEFG?) or CBSIFTCB or some other variant. I'm curious what you use and WHY? What have you added or subtracted to the "base" checklist to...

The best way to get a good wind calculation while flying "straight", such as on a final glide, descending through wind gradients and shears, I do the following per conversation with Dave Ellis a few years ago: 1. Turn 45 degrees off course and fly straight for 10-15 seconds. 2. Turn 90 degrees in...

I am looking for an article from Soaring Magazine that discussed the differences between new pilots and experienced pilots. It covered an analysis of percentage of time the pilots spent flying versus flight planning, etc. I can't remember the title or author so any help would be appreciated. ...

Our club has adopted this landing checklist U undercarriage S speed T trim A airbrakes R radio intention E enter pattern Plug in water, flaps, etc. if you need it. The emphasis is to have it