The recent history of the SSA suggests that neither its Directors nor its employees have done a very good job of handling the SSA's business aspects. However, the SSA apparently has done quite well handling the soaring aspects, which includes badges, records, contests, talking to the FAA,...

How do you interpret 61.113 (G) ? Could a 17 year old PVT SEL with the 61.69 endorsements get a job towing for a commercial tow operation and be paid? Granted the insurance company would not let that be in the commercial operators policy unless they paid big $...

How do you interpret 61.113 (G) ? Could a 17 year old PVT SEL with the 61.69 endorsements get a job towing for a commercial tow operation? Hmmmm!

The cannon was fired, at 10 am and the pilots meeting was called to order. Patty Smith, the contest manager said a brief "HI" and then introducted the CD Dick Butler. Dick explained it was important to be nice to the CD, as he has always been, as someday you may be the CD. Cough, heazeeeeeeeeeeeee....

So good to have good weather. YSBK BE 76 twin rating 0.9 today and 0.9 yesterday The Oakes did 0.3 in a Jabiru as well making total of 1.0 in Jabiru then sent solo in the Jabiru 0.6 Plus 1.4 in a simulator doing NDB intercepts.

"This story is from our news.com.au network Source: AAP Glider pilot dies in crash September 17, 2006 A MALE glider pilot has died in a crash in southern NSW. A police spokesman said the glider came down near an airstrip at Lockhart, near Wagga Wagga, just before 4pm (AEST). No one else was...

Does anybody know which sort of signal goes from the Borgelt B40 vario to the external averager? Is it just a voltage or something more complicated? The reason I want to know it is that I'd like to make up my own display instead of buying the original one which is rather bulky. The only alternative...

Another 18m ship to add to the list :- http://www.jonkersailplanes.co.za

Another 18m ship to add to the list :- http://www.jonkersailplanes.co.za

Have arrived to the blue grass international flying site. Its grrrrrrrr green. Been raining last few days, maybe some in a few more days. Several others have been pulling in today, along with our CD. DB is the CD for New Castle this year. Just heard a few more have just pulled out, so its down to...

Dear RAS, I am very saddened to hear of Geoff's passing. You Johny-come-latelies won't remember him, but he was the driving force 15 years ago for the breaking up of the original rec.aviation newsgroup into the many different rec.aviation.* groups we have today. He did a tremendous amount of...

Hi, I have received requests from quite a few customers for the T-shaped 2-conductor connectors as found in Schleicher gliders on the battery leads. I ordered a large batch of them and finally received them and put them on my web site. http://www.soarmn.com/cumulus/misc.htm#Connectors_-_TQD Good...

Hi, I have received requests from quite a few customers for the T-shaped 2-conductor connectors as found in Schleicher gliders on the battery leads. I ordered a large batch of them and finally received them and put them on my web...

On the cover of the September 2006 issue of Soaring is pictured Eric Mozer's Discus. Cool shot. The question I have is what is the long thin white "things" which appear to be coming from the nose and the right wing of the glider? Thanks, John

Ok, it's 9:30 Saturday morning, I'm driving through the center of Detroit, and something catches my eye. I look over and there it is, a glider making a left turn at a few hundred feet AGL. What the *&^%$$^&?????. I mean, I'm in the middle of the city!!! Well I look again, and notice that it has...

I just pulled off the wheels to replace the tires (cracked side walls), and I'm wondering about the wheel bearings. I see a grease gun fitting threaded into a cup, which is captured by a 'C' ring. The grease gun fitting looks pretty rusty itself. Should I replace the zerk and pump in new...

Mal www.mals.net Tall Giraffe Not related to soaring either unless all 5 engines fail !

Hi everyone. I have just added further photos of the Omarama Grand Prix to our website at Southern Soaring - some stunning shots. The direct link is as follows: http://www.soaring.co.nz/Southern_Soaring_Gallery2.html Thanks to all those who have booked courses this season. We look forward to...

From an email from the developers: XCSoar 5.0 Stable has been released! This is a major breakthrough and a very exciting release. Improvements have been made in the features, stability, performance, usability, manual, language interfaces, configurability and more. XCSoar has gone though thorough...

AS-W20 S/N 20472 N472JH "J6". $31,000 O.B.O. Approx. 1500 hrs t.t. Good Condition with numerous professionally installed custom improvements. Excellent performer: 1100 km max X-C (1000 km diploma) and average X-C = 500 km. See 2006 OLC (Staniforth) & 2005 OLC (Grubb) for more. ...