Sure glad I've got a square, ram-air chute AND know how to collapse it! You can see clearly the associated dust devil.. http://www.military.com/video/specialties-and-personnel/parachutists/russian-parachute-landing-goes-wrong/1858777535001/

Have starboard wheel. Port side tip wheel assembly dissapeared from tiedown. Do 1-26 tip wheels also fit a 1-34? Thank you. Karen

First flight today in glider with LX 7007 and Winter varios. Needles on both the LED vario and the Winter mechanical would swing wildly from 10 kts up to 10 kts down all thru the flight- mostly in cruise, but also in the early phase of thermalling. Needle and LED display seemed synchronous. ...

Hi I have developed a system "Windsond" to gather local wind data at different altitudes in an easy way. This is done by launching a 60 liter helium balloon with electronics that transmits back sensor data as it ascends. On the ground, a laptop receives the data and displays diagrams of wind speed,...

I wish we could get this project going in more schools around the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXZ352ErX_s&NR=1&feature=endscreen Seems like a good way to get kids involved in aviation? Boggs

Attention talented videographers. It would be valuable to have at least one exciting soaring video that features a nice SGS 2-33. Students could view it before they show up at the club for their introductory flight. One idea would be to document an introductory flight in a scenic area. That way...

https://www.youtube.com/user/SSAsoaring/featured A link to your new SSA YouTube channel. This is very preliminary and will take a few weeks, perhaps months to get rolling at full speed. I need your help! Email me at with links to youtube video's, channels and...

There's a big irritation caused by the Spot web page map where your track is displayed: the new track ("today's") overlaps with the older portion of the previous day's track. That happens because you can not select a "daily" display, where only today's track shows; instead, the smallest time...

Has anyone of the early adopters actually flown with the new DeLorme InReach ? I had a contact with their tech support a while back, who mentioned that they report elevation, not altitude. Also their tracking pages mention elevation. I found tracks of Paul/Frank and Sean, but they look like they...

My handwriting is horrible, so instead of the "daily flight sheet" I created an iPad app to handle member "sign-in" and logging of the flights for the day. I tested it this past Sunday and now I'd like to broaden the testing. At this point I'm looking for just two (2) beta testers who have iPads...

What are the issues that keep soaring from training and retaining 'older youth'? There's a lot of talk about recruiting 'youth' into soaring. Does RAS/SSA put 45+ y.o. students in the youth category? Who exactly are we trying to recruit? Today's 45+ y.o.s are the ones who will be flying...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrv1DFAf1Ks Boggs

This is a very nice JS1 that is race ready. It flew in the 2010 and 2012 WGC. More info he http://soaringcafe.com/classified-ads/show-ads/362/jonker-sailplanes-js1b-n51we/al/huntsville/us/sailplanes-for-sale/ Bill

See You Mobile, my “AGL Navbox” does not show any altitude?? Everything else seems to be working ok? Any Ideas? Thanks

NoIR is a privately held company based in Michigan. I have no financial interest in the company. I've not seen NoIR brand sunglasses mentioned in soaring circles. They have some interesting low-cost high-function options for lenses and frames. They has some interesting Infrared blocking lens...

I have found a local seasoned pilot who lives in Nephi, Utah who owns a Cessna 182 and is wanting to offer tows and is willing to put tow gear on his plane. That is great news that we won't always have to fly in tow planes to this amazing location to soar. The only question is where do you go to...

Our glider has two max takeoff weights, one with water ballast and one with only pilot (134 lb difference). I just weighed the glider and the empty weight subtracted from the max takeoff weight (no water ballast) limits the useful load to 225. There's still some room to play with for the forward...

The U.S. is moving towards recognizing the Club Class in 2013. A poll has been created to validate interest in establishing FAI (IGC) rules / tasking philosophy in this new class. If approved the U.S. Club Class would be the ONLY U.S. racing class under FAI (IGC) racing rules. Please sign the...

I am selling my spots! I have two for sale: 1) SPOT CONNECT (one year old, perfect condition) $90 2) SPOT II (Brand new, in box) $70 Send me an email, smfidlerATgmail.com Shipping will be from MI.

I noticed the fancy panel photo being used by the SSA to entice people to try soaring (home page of letsgogliding.com) features a BIG, FAT GYRO DRIVEN turn coordinator. I can't believe this has been allowed to remain for nearly a year as it is obviously blasphemy! I'll give it 24 hours before...