Greetings, Off season (northern hemisphere) is coming. What are the top 2-3 soaring simulators or is there a clear winner? Thanks, Gary

So, if you were ordering a new Cobra trailer, would you order a fiberglass top or an aluminum top? For sake of discussion, lets exclude obvious price difference. I've never seen an aluminum top with insulation. What type of insulation is used and is it worth the 1000 plus euros? For those having...

All the recent threads on the danger of inadvertent VMC into IMC flight without proper instrumentation has highlighted what I think is a needed bit of kit for the modern glider (i.e. one that has some sort of PDA/PNA/nav display in it's cockpit: An inexpensive stand-alone AHRS module that would...

Posted by Walt Rogers - WX As flight dispatcher/weather support I once again will be commenting on the flight through my twitter feed: @wrogerswx My blog is NOT active this year. However, I'll post graphics and occasional longer discussions on my Dropbox account "Weather...

Hi I have read many articles published by Dick Johnson on performance of various gliders, but I cannot find any information on the methodology he used. The closest I have come to is this from Wikipedia "Flight Test Evaluation series starting in 1976, which measured the performance of sailplanes...

Friends: I am trying to learn more about how different clubs with active XC pilots flying privately owned gliders handle the problem of determining "Is everybody back safely?" - before everybody at the airport goes home. In my club we frequently shut down training operations around 5:00 pm or so...

Three people were killed in the crash of a 2-32 today.

I have a new glider on order and naturally I want to build-in all the things it will need over the next ten years at least, rather than adding things later piecemeal. In the non-carbon part of the fin I plan to have a radio aerial, a transponder aerial and a Flarm aerial. However it seems that...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-crash/norways-first-electric-plane-crash-lands-on-lake-idUSKCN1V423N?il=0

What can you say?? An awesome pilot flying a finely tuned unique machine on his home turf. Incredible!!

I'm interested in finding out what some of the largest private collections of "classic" (roughly 1965-1975) are (Steve I already know you have about a gazillion...). I currently have an Elfe S-3, Libelle 301, Diamant 17.2 and ASW-12. What do you own? 2C

No License, Butt, plenty of experience Florida man here... Lived in NW, flown in more than several Gliders. Been winched up, car towed up, Pawnee towed up, worked the winch on way more than 20 flights alone, lots of hours in everything from a Stearman to F-4, 3 place gliders and 2 place gliders......

I had a chance to load a new config file and was able to fly today. There was no "flarm range" in my original config file. With the file I used today the "flarm range" config was set to maximum with the statement below. I had several flarm detections that occured around 4 miles. This is between...

I have been battling with the Delorme folks a bit and have won a big, big argument with them that I think will benefit some of you. The frustration I have had with Spot is its poor website interface, sub standard social app integration and general poor usability. The Spot connect device for...

Hi, I imagine someone on this newsgroup can point me in the right direction on a technical/FAA question. Becker offers 2 versions of their AR6201 radio. The original version has frequency spacing that can be set to either 25 mHz or 8.33 mHz. The new, slightly lower cost option has frequency...

Can anyone share some wisdom on using water at high elevations for long durations? How do you know your fin or wing tanks will not freeze? If I am at 18K for 6 hrs in the Sierras, I really don't want my vertical stab splitting open in flight. Has this ever happened? Any guidance would be...

I'm getting new sun glasses, should I get Polarized or not, what works best for flying gliders??? The ones I'm looking at are also anti-glare lenses. Thanks Glen

Delorme InReach For sale! Exceptional units, exceptional service with 1 minute tracking, altitude, heading and speed vs. SPOT's horrible 10 minute tracking with no telemetry at all!!!!!! Asking $200. New units are $300. this unit does everything the new unit does better via Bluetooth linkage to...

here's mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S7T81LbvIs

Any recommendations on what to use to fill small holes in an aluminum panel?