Anyone venture to guess when we will think of carbon fiber as 'heavy'? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22079592

Hi, FLARM sent a note with great news yesterday! The PowerFLARM Fusion units for U.S. customers will be on the way to me in 1 to 2 weeks. I have many pre-orders, but I ordered many extra units for stock. If you want one and haven't ordered yet, you can order...

I happen to be looking at some OLC scoring and noticed that there were rear seat ride along customers scoring flights on OLC as if they were the PIC. Is there any provision for making sure that the ride along is not permitted to score the flight as if they were the primary scoring individual.

Made my first flight in my very old LS3a - first flight in over 13 years - just like riding a bicycle. Problem-- cannot connect my new lxnav Nano4 to my Win PC - When I try to download flight the Nano tries to connect to my PC but then my WiFi disconnects cannot seem to load both at same time - so...

Four decades ago when I was getting my U. S. glider pilots license the textbook we used had a very good discussion of convection. This included stable and unstable air conditions, the temperature gradients needed to sustain convection, and how, over the course of a sunny day, convective currents...

I was checking someone out yesterday in a Grob 103 and we were experimenting with various things including yaw sensitivity. We noticed that the ASI is completely useless with anything more than about 10 degrees of yaw. Like, it goes to almost zero and flutters around. Given how poor Grob...

Looking for a ground station and radio. Thanks, 5U

Towball available to Reno for the SSA convention from points east. Likely arriving in Reno early in the week of the convention, Feb. 25ish, but flexible. Towball available from Reno to practically anywhere in the continental USA as long as I eventually make it to Wichita. References available,...

The Chilhowee Soaring Association Is pleased to announce the Sixth Annual Sequatchie Ridge Badge and Record Camp March 18-27, 2014 Marion County Airport (APT) in Jasper, Tennessee ...

Hi Gang I have just updated the firmware on my PowerFlarm portable unit in the Phoenix without problems to version 3.31. Now how do you do the same for the brick and Butterfly display in the DG1001M? I have loaded the new firmware onto a USB memory stick and plugged it in but the unit does not...

Does anyone know if a service exists, assiting with exporting a glider to the US from Europe? Looking for brokering, delivery to port and shipping arrangements. Thanks, Wells

Family, friends celebrate Scott Henderson's life Published: October 28, 2009 The inscribed boulder that will serve as a memorial to the late Scott Henderson at Creswell's Hobby Field airport. By Helen Hollyer As Mike Grier's Piper Pawnee towed a banner reading, "I'm with angels, Alex. I love you...

Hey Abigel, I'll take the 7.5 million. You will definitely not be placing it in the WROUNG hands! Bad speelers of the world unite! :) JJ

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First race day, and yep, we sat on the grid while the snifers went round and round. You know the drill, pre practice ka boomers,, sky filled with hard bottoms, then comes first race day. It even felt cool at noon, and the sun gods were a hour late, earlier, heck, they even didn't know, as we woke...

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The Piper PA -25 -235 requires a inspection of the wing spar/cluster every 24 months. Who has experience and does these in the Southwest US, Nevada or California? Thanks in advance for any steerage or names and phone numbers. Karen

A few years ago at a competition weather breifing I saw the demonstration of a program that used model data to generate soundings over the contest area. There was what looked like a graphical representation of the terrain with small circles over the grid points, with each circle having some sort...

Hi Folks, I'm selling a copy of Ellison's "British Gliders and Sailplanes 1922 - 70". It's on eBay at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6921575191 Quibblers note: both reserve and buy-it-now prices are less than I had to pay to get this about seven years ago! Ian

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