Hi all, I need your input on an issue that has led to an ongoing, heated debate ever since my son joined our soaring club at age 14. He begun taking lessons and soloed during a youth soaring camp organized by another club this summer. A small but vocal group of members are stricktly against youth-...

In this video, the guy is kiteboarding on the water. Normally when jumping, the max is about 50'. He gets caught in a thermal and ends up a few hundred feet up. Quite remarkable that he survived. http://www.kiteschool.net/mary_poppins.wmv Jim Vincent N483SZ

A copy (DVD/VHS) of this movie you can order new- for more details see: http://213.157.12.12/mwp/rodeo.htm .... 3th october of 2003 A 45 minute programme, "Rodeo in the Sky", featuring the Mountain Wave Project will be shown on the German TV-channel Radio Berlin Brandenburg around 9.15pm on...

Hi, I'm helping a soaring friend in Japan (Makoto Ichikawa) sell his used iPAQ 5555 Pocket PC. I purchased it for him less than a year ago here in the U.S. so the power plug is for us in the U.S. I now have it back in my office. Makoto is a dealer for Cambridge Aero Instruments products in...

CELEBRATE THE NEW CLOUD STAMPS AT NCAR CLOUDSCAPES STATION THIS SUNDAY A stunning photo of a lenticular cloud above Barker Reservoir by UCAR's own Carlye Calvin is one of the 15 stamps in the new Cloudscapes stamp series from the U.S. Postal Service. You're invited to a celebration for young...

I'm planning the installation of a new Borgelt B50 to replace an old Pirol vario. The Pirol used three 61mm holes so the 57mm B50 units won't fit nor will the G meter I'd planned to add. Arghhhh! So, new panel time. Anybody got a new or used panel laying around? If not, my choices seem to...

I thought in the UK they took all your guns away to make things safer for ....everyone....( it certainly makes it safer for criminals breaking and entering, knowing they don't have to worry about lead poisoning...like they'd get at Steve's house...) Sss....

Methinks....this woman doth need the TinFoil... It places the tinfoil on its head or else it hears the voices instead sorry...hannibal moment there. God I love livin in the U.S.A.!!!

Hi Folks, I wondered if anyone in the US has a LiIon battery from an old dead 1550 lying around they'd like to get rid of for some $'s It's not my main PDA now, but the 1550 refuses to charge now and I'm trying to debug if it's the charging circuit in the PDA or the battery. A new one from HP...

I'll be staying in Chicago from Nov 5th to 8th (including the week-end). Is there any chance of soarable weather or would it be the same as northern Europe ? If yes, could anyone recommend a place where I could take a ride in a two-seater (I have a valid French license but I don't want to spend...

If this was a summary I'd hate to the the whole thing! I'm all for free speech, but why oh why do these people think that they can post this type of drivle to a soaring new group! -- jorgie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via OziPilots Online...

Enjoy the pictures http://www.mals.net/dalby/ Mal

Has anyone been to the Japan Soaring Club at Itakura Gliderport near Tokyo lately? I'm off to Japan for a week's holiday next week and was thinking of going along one day. It'll probably be just for a jolly; a new location for the log book etc. I'm not there for a gliding holiday per se, and...

This is a bit wierd, but a friend and I can think of no lawyers who fly gliders. We can think of plenty of doctors and gobs of engineers, but no members of that darker profession. Is it just us, or is there something about soaring that excludes lawyers? Aversion to risk??

We have a lawyer in our club and, fortunately for the club, he does some lawyer stuff for free. I have met many very interesting people since I got involved with soaring, most with technical background of some sort but certainly not all by a long shot. What I haven't met are any fellow soaring...

Here are several defenders of our Order: There is a gliderpilot in US who became FBI Special Agent after he was a gliderpilot, and he's from Tennessee and flew alot at Chilhowee Gliderport; he is posted somewhere else now, maybe Chicago; he has owned or owns and flies an Asw-20. There is a glider...

Missing Brake Parts on Cobra Trailer My brakes have not worked on my Cobra trailer since I purchased it. It is probably 10 years old. I finally pulled the drums off and found all the internal parts missing. I assume that a previous owner went joy riding with the brake lever on. The brakes were...

Is there anyone out there who is intimately familiar with a VW 921 flight computer? If willing, would you please contact me directly? I am trying to get a CAI Model 20 GPS to communicate to a VW 921, but have been unsuccessful. I have had someone double-check the cable for correct design and...

The NOAA web site used to have a "Soaring and winds aloft" page for various locations. We used the one from San Diego, which included forecasts for many sites in Southern California. I know they had similar pages for other parts of the country. They just reorganized their web site and it's gone! I...

Hi, I received my iPAQ 4705 this week. Like the Toshiba e800 the screen is a little larger than most Pocket PCs and it is about the same brightness as most current Pocket PCs. It looks about the same (maybe slightly brighter) as my iPAQ 3970 in sunlight. The high resolution screen is not an...