It is snowing outside and privately I have been corresponding about the successful installation of a transponder in my SparrowHawk and transponders in general and thought this might be some interest to many of you . Dave Hi Jim There are many systems that we would agree with few exceptions...

i'd be interested to hear from anyone who has sucessfully fitted oxygen to an SZD-55Regards David Pye Kent GC, UK

i'd be interested to hear from anyone who has sucessfully fitted oxygen to an SZD-55Regards David Pye Kent GC, UK

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As an experiment, I've posted some videos I took of a few exhibitors at the SSA Convention in Memphis TN earlier this month. To view, you need Quicktime 7 (not 6, you won't get video) and a broadband connection as these videos are 10x+ of a typical YouTube video. There are also clickable links IN...

I am pleased to announce that an update to the IGC-approval document for the EW Avionics microRecorder is now on the IGC GNSS web site. This update adds an SD card facility for the downloading of flight data. To find the IGC-approval document, go to: http://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss and click the...

Our friends in New York are up to no good again: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A03424 http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2007/070223ny.html Vaughn

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21284383-2,00.html http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/man-decapitated-in-glider-crash/2007/02/25/1172338461960.html

Three Decade Set of Soaring Magazines 1961-90 on eBay 360 Issues. Very Good Condition. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250088579832

Sometime ago, there was a link on r.a.s. to a funny video for a Dutch insurance company. It showed two students, each thinking that the other is his instructor, taking off in a glider. Both instructors then show up on the field, waiting for their respective students until... Can anyone here ...

To those of you in the USA who have bought new gliders from Schempp- Hirth with Cobra trailers: Where can I find the key to the trailer when I go to the docks to accept delivery of my new Discus 2? Thanks! F2

During the process of replacing the fabric on SGS2-33A S/N 258, two weights were found in the glider. One, a lead weight of about one pound located at the trailing edge of the elevator and another, a steel bar, about 4.2 pounds, bolted to the bottom of nose ballast box. Both weights are called...

I used the direct claim method to load my file (recorded on a 302 BTW), and the dreaded red circle appears on OLC. This is despite the fact that the version on my hard drive appears to be OK when checked by valicam2, and the igc file on my hard drive and the igc file on the OLC website are...

Has someone ever implemented a liquid oxygen system inside a glider?

Is anybody having trouble with invalid igc files in OLC? I submitted one last week, no problem. This week though, same process results in an invalid file. Hope it's just pre-season sorting out of the software.

I've started WikiProject_Gliding at Wikipedia, and would like to invite others to join it, even if you are new to Wikipedia. WikiProjects are used to help editors work together in a subject area. The initial scope of this project is deliberatly broad and covers aviation as well as avifauna,...

New list, should be up this evening. The cut off is 50 entrants, plus 2 contest organizers slots, plus 4 guest slots, for the USAF academy, approved by the Rules Committee Chairman. Making a total of 56 slots. We do have a sniffer, he is not a entrant in the contest. If the USAF withdraws, we will...

There's still room! Light snow Saturday anyway, so here you can still imagine you're flying, but sign up now! Noon-6pm 100 Years of Soaring, John Campbell, SSA Youth Committee and 2007 SSA Convention presenter Computer Simulation Software for Ground School, Bill Daniels, CFI-G New Instrument and...

One of our friends lives on the first ridge south of our glider port. I have seen him flying his fixed wing ultralight high over the San Gabriel mountains amoung really big cumulus clouds. I've wondered about him. Yesterday, Feb 22, 07, I saw an article in the AV Press that he was looking for...

Am I the only one having a problem accessing OLC files? No matter what date is selected the display shows today's date (2007/2/17) and "Nothing found to display." Wayne HP-14 "6F" http://www.soaridaho.com/