This is a pretty good gliding PR piece aimed General Aviation folks found on AIRCRAFT OWNER ONLINE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER December 1, 2010 issue. Check it out at http://www.aircraftowner.com/videos/view/cross-country-soaring-on-the-flightline-tv-show_1567.html Bob T. 19

Here we go... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/technology/microsoft-teaches-autonomous-gliders-to-make-decisions-on-the-fly.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

I am looking for a fuselage dolly and the fixture that captures the nose of the glider from an eberle trailer. Does anyone have or know of salvageable rigging from a possibly non salvageable trailer? I am in Florida so only stateside makes any sense. Thanks, Bob

I just acquired an Eberle trailer without the spring and or strut lift assist add on that most have. If anyone has experience with this maybe you can give me some ideas on how you open and drop the support rods when alone. No problem when someone else is around, I lift, they drop the rods. Lifting...

Minden to Kansas in a Duo Noted on current post on Soaring Cafe: His SPOT quit, but check out his path on http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N55LK Currently over Uintas at 25,900' with 19 kts up. Fun to watch the trace on the top of the page and the altitude and up / down on the bottom of the...

About this time last year the gliding world, at least in print, was gaga over the Electric Tarus, and since then there has been total silence. What I read caught my fancy, and a friend in Durango, CO had one on order. But, before his ever came in, he was killed in the crash of a gas-powered...

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This weekend Bob Carlton brought his Bonus Jet glider to Phoenix for Arizona Soaring Association members to demo and presented a fine PowerPoint / video presentation after our BBQ dinner at Turf Soaring. What a great time we all had. The weather cooperated, and although it was a tad windy, there...

Today, being the first day of Winter, the Tucson NOAA site's soaring forecast for Tucson sure looks chilly. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/aviation/PHXWRKSRG.php Check out the first useable lift temp! One might say it will be a cold day in hell if any soaring takes place.... Forget the bug wipers,...

I have a Casio E100 (Wife's old PDA) running CE 2.11. It has 16 meg of memory. I would like to use it to (at least) download the flight files from an LX5000. I would love to use this as a cockpit management system. Any ideas. Bob

Hi all I have for sale my dearly loved Canadian registered Standard Cirrus 75 - Canadian registration C-GGXT - Serial # 612 (member of Standard Cirrus Newsgroup) - 760 total hours ..... no damage history - totally refinished about 1996 or so, and still in excellent shape. - Borgelt B100 computer...

I have had my Russia AC-5M up for sale for quite a while now with no results. I was thinking of putting it on E-Bay to get a more international exposure. Has anyone ever sold an airplane on E-Bay? Is this a crazy idea? The plane is like new and we keep dropping the price but I guess they are...

At least it shows that they are listening! While we are on the subject, did anyone notice how quick the results from the European Championships were being posted? It was almost in real time.. as soon as a new trace was brought in, the results were updated and a .zip file of all the traces were...

Need a Grob 103 III manual (Prefer electronic). I am learning to fly here in Germany and my German isn't good enough yet to read the manual with the glider. I am ready to solo and I need to have read the manual beforehand. Thanks in advance. Bob

I haven't heard anything in a few years about the requirement to carry an FAA Exemption letter in the cockpit. Is it still a requirement or has common sense prevailed? The latest info I could find on the SSA web site only extends the exemption until October 2008. Thanks, Bob 7U

Hi, I have a Becker 3201, connected to a Becker Speaker box (1PL 042) that has two DIN sockets. One is currently being use by the Mic and the other I believe is for a headset. Any ideas where I can get a lightweight headset with the DIN connection? Thanks, Bob 7U

Does anyone know of a source for the volume control knob used on Cambridge Mnavs? I could use an odd piece of plastic but if the real thing is available I would prefer it. Thanks, Bob 7U

I am having a hard time finding the Cambridge PDA software that uploads turnpoints from a PDA to the 302, The Cambridge site is '404 file not found' and both Paul Remdes and Dickie Feakes's site link back to that same source...... Anyone know of a site where this can be found? Thanks, Bob 7U

Hi, Does anyone know of a source for a G-meter that is installed inside LNavs. Anyone have one kicking around they no longer need? Also, are temperature probes for the LNav still available? Thanks, Bob 7U

So, a few years back, there was a spate of undercarriage collapses on LS 6 sailplanes and a Technical Bulletin was issued by the LBA on how to fix the problem. http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/Data/TM-LS/LS6/TM6012.pdf Does anyone know if the suggested replacement part for the gas strut (4R2-111) is...