Our club has a Piper Pawnee 235hp in excellent condition. We just spent $35000 five years ago to completely overhaul her...new fabric, new engine, anything that needed to be replaced was... Heres the rub...we are in the middle of a new two place acquisition with the club making a decision about...

I am using WinPilot Advanced and wondered if it is possible to mark a thermal waypoint on the fly. Reason I ask is that in a recent contest I flew through a good thermal a few miles from the next turnpoint. I made the turnpoint and thought I had flown back to where the lift was. Checking my igc...

These guys are something else in these wing suits. A wing suited guy flies with a glider. A Salto ? http://www.dailymotion.com/related/4634503/video/x2rbfw_wingman-vs-glider-extreme

Anyone have any experience with the Vertex Standard VXA-300 Pilot III air band transceiver? I have seen conflicting comments after Googling it. MG

Hi, Time to dust off a perennial topic ;) I looked through the archives and read Darryl Ramm's battery presentation. Not an exhaustive search but I didn't find an answer to my question. At present we have two (fused) 12V 7Ah "main batteries" connected to the Master switch via an SPDT...

I think what Bert was saying was that a little lift on the glide, and your 20 will match a 20B. Or a little sink on the run, and your 20B will fall behind a 20. I would start off with the stock 20 polar, or maybe shift it better by 2 or 3 MPH for the same sink rates. Fly this, and see how your...

My wife loves animals and was watching the documentary "Life of Birds" (details below) which she had gotten from NetFlix (http:// netflix.com). On Disk 1, Episode #2 is "Mastery of Flight". Chapter 3 is entitled "Flying on Thermals" and has a very good sequence of David in the back of a glider...

Tim Taylor wrote: 'Maybe, but can you dive, lose the altitude, decelerate and get it on the ground for a tail wheel first, full stall landing?' Don't miss out an a VERY important lesson I nearly learnd the hard way, on the home field, in front of many of my friends. And that lesson is:

We are going to have our Grob 103 weighed next week. In the flight manual it says "Level means 600:24 incidence board" set up horizontial on the top of the rear fuselage. I plead ignorance....what is a 600:24 incidence board? Thanks Kurt

People There are few entities that have added as much momentum to soaring than the OLC has. It is run by volunteers and I think we owe them our support so that it can continue. There is now a "Support the OLC" banner on the OLC /USA home page. Please do your part. Paul ZZ

I switched back up batteries and switched cradles. Since I cant get a flicker out of it I don't know how to try a "hard restart. Dick

Is it allowed to register one pilot (same name and same date of birth) for two different clubs, and is it possible at all?! I fly for two different clubs. Suppose I'm not the only one?

I am interrested in buying a RF4. Anybody who flies them can tell me more about it? Performance? Where to get parts? etc... Thanks Richard Phoenix, AZ

Guys, I need a L13 fuselage, my cockpit is ok, but just behind it between the wings is wrinkled , and the tail cone seperated 1/2 way back, tail feathers ok. I have a repareable left wing, needs one skin. for tradeing material, thanks, John Baron 573 565 2819 Missouri

Can anyone provide any information about the above - specifically, where to get the brake discs from??? If not, any help related to what the brake discs come from - any owners out there had to do any work on the brakes??? Really stuck as all local car/bike/truck parts shops can't identify the...

Team Tuno is entertaining the possibility of a relocation to Southern Oregon, in search of the best combination of crew-friendly climate, kid-friendly schools and pilot-friendly soaring. In particular, the Grants Pass, Medford and Jacksonville areas. If there are any pilots living in the area who...

Karl Streideck worte: 'Extending the 20:1 minimum slope out another 5 miles will not give any advantage because the scoring formula uses a speed of 60mph from the safety fix home, while most gliders would actually be doing 40%-80% faster than this. There is also the time 'penalty' incurred due to...

Am I the only one having problems accessing ssa.org? Wayne HP-14 "6F" http://www.soaridaho.com/

On Saturday, my 302 and my PDA (5450) stopped talking to one another. They've been together for about 18 months without any issues. It started when the PDA complained about low battery power. I thought that odd, but I still had GPS data. I could see that the PDA wasn't charging by the absence of...

Anyone out there know if there have been any sailplane wings made that use a glass spar and carbon skins? Cheers, Brad