This from a friend at the airport: Winds at 0E0 right now at 240 degrees, 31 gusting to 37 with flying tumbleweeds, cats, dogs and coyotes......in haze and blowing dust. Bart is now being blown eastward back to his home in Kentucky against his will. He, however, will have to get past the...

Anyone know what fuse rating i would need for an old Edo-Aire RT-551 radio. Its marked inop now but i still want to replace the fuse in the panel for it

Chain links are often used instead of TOST rings for ground tows behind golf carts, as they are much cheaper. I noticed today that I can easily slide the chain link out of the nose hook of my glider without pulling the release, while in other gliders I can’t. Looks like my release has slightly...

As used at the recent WGC in Benalla... An excellent forecasting tool has been released in the USA, first available for the SW. More to come? https://skysight.io I have flown using Matthew Scutter's SkySight website when in Australia and found it extremely useful. Jim

I was wondering what the conventional wisdom is on whether to sideslip or crab the glider on takeoff under tow in a crosswind. I've always crabbed to follow the tow plane because of the low altitude and not wanting to risk catching a wingtip just after becoming airborne -and after a very short...

Did everyone see that Tony celebrated March 1 by heading downwind for over 500 km? I think his latest RAS post was probably from on the ground NE of Dallas. Lou

Hi all, I'm lending my glider to a British pilot who has an EASA licence. I just called Costello up and asked what I needed to add him to my insurance, and they said that he needed a "USA add-on". Anyone know what they're talking about? I thought an EASA licence was internationally accepted....

We need more guys voting for 18 m class. Come on guys get out of sofas and vote. It is election time!

Power pilots need 10 hours of complex time to earn a commercial rating...could it be done in a motorglider? Retractable landing gear: CHECK Controllable pitch prop: CHECK Flaps: CHECK

Looking for the entire catalog of knowledge test questions (650+) in a format that can be keyword searched (.pdf, .txt, etc.). I've found several links (even on FAA website) but all end up broken. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks JB

I saw a posting on a web site about Steve Fossett's around the world flight. Just think, since he landed at the same airport that he took off from, he can't log that flight as 'cross country flight'.

I realize that a new badge person is either in training or just been trained. Has anyone received an approval lately? I have had a badge submission in for over two months and heard nothing. The SSA staff assures me that he should be getting to in any time now. I am wondering if anyone else has...

Dear Friends, I am pleased to announce that a new approval document for an IGC Position Recorder has been issued by the Gliding Federation of Australia for flights under its jurisdiction, after discussion with the IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee (GFAC). The IGC Position Recorder is a...

With my new Zaon MRX PCAS mounted on top of my glare shield, I've been experiencing some radio interference and linked this to the MRX: the radio gives white-noise static -- like the squelch is not properly adusted. When I turn the MRX off it goes away. I've heard putting a "ferrite core" around...

Just read an AOPA article about hybrid engines being developed in Germany, but the article is rather short. http://tinyurl.com/aqnq5o anyone have any additional info? -Paul

As a guy who has flown thick airfoil ships and currrently owns a ship with a 17% airfoil, I am curious what kind of performance in climb I might see with a 14% airfoil section. Thanks, Brad

Sailplane pilots seem to have high techno-geek standings. I have been watching with curiosity/amusement the media frenzy over this device. Cell phones are quite useful for many of us, and particularly for retrieves(when we have coverage!). So is this device clever marketing by Steve Jobs, or is...

Hi, which european medium/high performance glider would you reccommend for tall people? I am ~6.5 / 199cm and looking to buy something like a Discus but apparently cockpit is supersmall Any suggestions? Many Tks

I have a PZL K-13 compass that's leaking. Here's a photo of the compass: http://www.soarbfss.org/scgi-bin/gallery2/v/Flying_0/acc.jpg.html This summer, I had the canopy of my ASH-26E open and it focused the sun onto the compass and melted a hole in the front. Luckily it was in the black painted...

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