Opinion Survey on SSA Convention U.S. Pilots - Please contribute your thoughts to how the SSA should move forward with a national convention, or some form of a national glider pilot's gathering. There are a number of possibilities, but the most critical aspect is to determine the collective...

Hi For some strength calculations I'd like to know the length of the water ballast bags of an ASW20 (A). Anyone? Many thanks Ruud

Hi, Revell Germany has just released a new auxiliary-powered sailplane model kit - the LS-8t. I have them in stock. You can see details he http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/revell.htm#Revell-LS-8t Best Regards,

Yesterday, George Applebay dropped by Sundance Aviation to fly. I provided the tow to 2,000 ft AGL and Billy Hill rode along in the back seat of the Grob. George did all the flying (and was up for about an hour) and came back with a wal-to-wall grin. Said it had been about 5 years since he'd...

Report is available on the SSA site and on SoaringCafe.NET TA

Paul Remde of cumulus soaring (http://www.cumulus-soaring.com) emailed me yesterday to tell me that his shipment of my book "Cross Country Soaring with Condor" has arrived and is now available for purchase at his site. This is the culmination of many years of real-life and Condor cross-country...

I keep getting some of my flights rejected by olc with this message: IGC-file cannot be read or has wrong format! Please send the file via eMail to Error by parsing IGC-File; Error by B-Record: B2312064540367N12131900WA0019700183LLXNNOREC180SEC_326676154_326675526 ; For...

FYI – I found a tiny camera case at REI that is almost a perfect fit for a SPOT II. It has several types of straps and flaps to allow it to be attached to something, e.g., a parachute belt. (It does not have the hard plastic belt loop like the SPOT-branded SPOT 1 case.) Was on sale for $12 at the...

report is available on the SSA site and at SoaringCafe.NET TA

While preparing ASW 28 serial 28048 for annual inspection I noticed wear on the brake caliper. The aft, upper, outer corner of the caliper had a bright wear mark and a significant amount of the caliper corner had been worn away. The was also wear on the upper caliper bolt head and the safety...

For sale, 1 EW microRecorder new never out of the box. New $795.00 Sale $500.00 Plus shipping 218-724-3056 or Email Thanks, Al

You may want to delay installing this update. Seems that the link for the update 4.01 you will be advised of at startup actually links to the version 3.95 installer. The software then becomes an unregistered version of 3.x. Paul Remde has already contacted Naviter, but it's after business hours...

In an effort to get "Big Ugly's" water ballast system working correctly I was hoping one of you might have the dump adjustment screw from the ballast rocker. I only need one and prefer not to spend 500 Euros on a service contract. This is for an LS-3a, but they are the same on many LS's and I...

Under threat of violence from Rhonda and Al Tyler, I have been persuaded to post all my Perry reports on the SSA contest site for R5N. So for all of you out there that wanted to read all the reports again, go there ;-). TA

Afternoon all, I'm back in Breckenridge, Colorado in September on vacation and would love to fly there but converting my license seems a heap of bother for a few flights. I see there is a company based in Boulder that offer trial flights at inflated prices but wondered if there may be any Co....

The Wingmate can be used for one-person assembly or to take the load off the person handling the wingtip. It has wheels, folds up, and can be stored easily in a sailplane trailer. I used it so that my wife would not have to hold the weight of the wingtip. The Wingmate holds the weight, allows the...

My Colibri is interfering with my Microair. What do I need to do to fix that? Boggs

A reminder that there is a GNII user's group that all are welcome to join. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GNII I also found a StrePla Yahoo group. Are there similar groups for SeeYou, FlywithCE, etc? - John DeRosa

I'm looking for a tow-out wheel for my Mini-Nimbus and came across this http://www.airtech-composites.com/piste.html. Does anyone have experience of this neat-looking design?

On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:58:02 PM UTC-7, zulu wrote: Since the inclusion of TCAS equipment, line pilots (for the most part) look out the window even less. The thinking being if it’s out there, I’ll either catch it on TCAS or ATC will tell me about it. In ATC land, if the radar scope does...