Lennie, It always saddens me that one of the very few glider pilots chooses to leave the sport. I have been flying gliders since 1975 and have seen many depart for a myriad of reasons. Health, economics, just tired of it, etc, etc. I have personally witnessed a few dings, scrapes and outright...

Hi, I'm sorry about this being the 3rd commercial post I've done in the last day or so. I tend to do them in spurts... I promise to slow down after this one. Being a US dealer for StrePla and pocket*StrePla and a member of Team StrePla I have found that many customers are impressed with the...

It boggles the mind how the beaurocratic mind works. I sent a long email to one of the "powers that be" a while back (a name well known on this Usegroup) who didn't even have the courtesy to respond. I suggested that for all badge flights and for records below national or world level, ...

If an ASW-19 were supplied originally with only a nose hook, how difficult to add a CG hook? TIA, Frank Whiteley Colorado

I've seen it three times this year. There's a problem with the old, faithful 1530. In the process, you take the battery out, then put it back in. Maybe you're replacing the battery (at great cost). Or maybe just resetting the device to start over again. Now it doesn't work. Or doesn't work...

Hi all, If you didn't already know, TerraServer (terraserver-usa.com) has recently made available some 2002 very-high-resolution (as high as 0.25m/pixel!) color aerial photography for 36 urban areas in the U.S. The reason I'm bothering to announce this is that GPS Visualizer...

U.S. Team - Club Class Day Reports Online United States Club Class Team Captain Susan MacAllister has begun publishing Day Reports from Norway. The 3rd Club Class World Gliding Championships will be under way from June 13 to the 25th in Elverum/Starmoen Norway. Located at 60 degrees north...

The IGC Ranking list is now being updated with results from all the early season Gliding competitions. To see the latest results go to http://rankings.fai.org/gliding/index php The home page now contains a list of all the sanctioned competitions now taking place and a link to their web sites.

Sorry for the error in the previous message The IGC Ranking list address should be http://rankings.fai.org/gliding

My LS-6 gear collapsed and now will not lock down or up. Has any other LS-6 drivers had this happen? What's the fix? I had the glider on the trailer cradle for assembly and lowered the gear. I think the cradle was a little too low and the gear contacted the ground prior to the mechanism locking...

Scottish Gliding Union 70th Anniversary Celebrations Saturday 10th July & Sunday 11th July 2004 The inaugural meeting of the Scottish Gliding Union took place in Glasgow on Saturday 7th July 1934, and various events have been planned by the Board to mark the 70th anniversary of our founding. An...

Hi to all, Everything is yellow : http://www.airliners.net/open.file/258138/M/ -- Fil330

Does your soaring organization have a brochure that you use to promote membership or soaring? The SSA Growth Committee would like to see a sample of it! We are gathering them to create a "model" for any organization to use to grow soaring. Send copies via snailmail to: SSA PO Box 2100 Hobbs, NM...

I'd like to buy a set of plans for a Duster BJ-1b. These need not be original and can be a copy as they will not be used to build a glider, only for documentation for an existing Duster that came with no plans. ========================= Leon McAtee Leon@Alluretech dot net N 7852R Original...

New group formine to share info on subject bird. Click on , to Join. Thanks.

His funeral was held today in the adopted town he so dearly loved, in the First Presbyterian Church of Marfa. All who knew him will know what an empty space his leaving has left in his family, in the Davis Mountain area, and in the aviation and soaring community of West Texas. Enlisting in the...

Casey, The AOPA is a mixed blessing for glider pilots. It is by far the best aviation advocacy group (perhaps in the world), and they appear to provide beneficial services to individual members. But they advocate selectively. And glider pilots are so far down the list, it would be easier to...

anybody have a manual for a C-Nav. Scanned version. Thanks Dave

Hi all, Some news from Air Algerie : http://www.airliners.net/open.file/575458/M/ -- Fil330

.... in the Detroit area. Any advice? Thanks in advance. Tomasz