US Pilot, Mike Westbrook is on site in France competing in the Champagne Cup, which is running simultaneously with the French Club Class Championship at the site of next year's WGC. Read about Mike and his preparations here and bookmark the links to the tasks and...

On Monday, June 15, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Al wrote: Anyone got any good suggestions for clips for hotelier linkages. I also understand that there is a sleave kit out there somewhere. Thanks Al I am using the white LS sleeves which are great! Super easy. I am also using this...

The 3rd FAI Pan Am Championships begins tomorrow 8/2/2019 hosted by the SOSA Gliding Club in Canada. Meet the US Team and bookmark the links in the US Team post below to follow the action: https://ussoaringteams.org/3rd-pan-american-championship/ posted by Leigh #gousa #ussoaringteams

Hi all, am having an issue with my new to me dittle radio. worked fine for two flights now on startup it breaks squelch for a while even with the switch set correctly. it lasted about 15 minutes then went normal. The next flight it only did that for 5 minutes. after reading the manual it says...

Hello, I fly a 1979 Nimbus 2 carbon, and since a few years I hear a cracking noise behind me. That noise occurs more often after a few hours of flight, maybe related to temperature change with altitude. You can hear the cracking noise in this...

Please watch this young lady trying to become a glider pilot. Like her video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgPlEL-HELU Is nice to see young people getting into Aviation in general and Gliders in particular. --robert

Looking for a 57 mm altimeter in millibars.

In this Episode of The Thermal, the Jonker JS3 Rapture is cleaning up at competitions around the world. We talk to Uys Jonker one of the brother’s responsible for this cutting-edge sailplane. Also, a feature interview on the life and times of British gliding icon Derek Piggott and his vast...

Are most of these glider tow plane mid-airs in the landing or approach to pattern?

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/gliding-club-halts-operations-after-fatal-crash-that-left-two-dead Deepest sympathies to the families.

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Last year I started my gliding pilot school in Croatia. 9 students attended the training with me, and we only had one old school glider K7 and one flight instructor. Because of this and many other circumstances that happened at the club, I was unable to meet the requirements for the exam (25 hours...

On Monday, June 15, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Al wrote: Anyone got any good suggestions for clips for hotelier linkages. I also understand that there is a sleave kit out there somewhere. Thanks Al Sleeves? I can't help. Pins? Aircraft...

Has anyone gotten the FAA ADSB Performance website to work recently? https://adsbperformance.faa.gov/PAPRRequest.aspx It worked fine for me last year, but multiple attempts recently to file a report results in a return to the original input screen when you press "Submit Request" at the bottom of...

This pilot made a DEEP entry into the US w/o, apparently, following the laws of the US: https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=7436890 Here is what you have to do PRIOR to flying into the US, regardless of whether or not you are a US...

The other day a couple of pilots were treating 123.3 as their private chat line which I was forced to listen to so I could hear my friend's hourly position reports. One of the things one kept (repeatedly) talking about was having to descend to 12,500 to "reset" the 30 minute clock. This is entirely...

I have not yet found a description of "lift pins" that I understand but they apparently are pretty important. Can someone please tell me what lift pins are?

Has anyone used Oratex to cover a glider here? If so what was your experience both in applying and then the finished product compared to the traditonal way. I have a K6 wing that I am about to cover.

I'd like to hear your anecdotes about how things change when Powerflarm gets installed in towplanes. One thing I wonder is whether a towplane installation prompts people to install Powerflarm in their private gliders.

Hi All Just got back from 3 weeks of flying in Ephrata and Nephi. I have random issues with Flarm targets not showing up on my Oudie. After several years of perfect functionality, Its not working so well now So this spring I updated my Flarm Firmware, My Flarm net data base and my Oudie to all...