Anyone know where I can get hold of a set of rudder peddle springs for and Astir CS. Apparently the a/c manufacturer doesn't have any.. ....very strange!... Thanks Gail

Congrats to SZD for making 5000 gliders. That's a bunch. How many years did it take. What is their production rate and how does it compare with Western European (German) factories? Must be a high percentage of training gliders? Any military? I have owned German gliders with serial numbers in the...

Does anyone know the average amount of wait time after submitting your diamond paperwork before it is approved? Thanks Brian

The Schleicher factory uses a CO analyzer to tune the Wankel motor in their self-launching gliders. I'd like to do it this way, as it gets a good tuning more easily and quickly than the usual fiddling around with the needle valves until everything is running right. It requires a unit that can...

A few folks have asked about upgrading their ILEC SN10 to the "B" model (with the high-resolution screen). For customers in North America, my technician can do this upgrade, but for customers elsewhere the SN10 should go back to the factory. The price is 250 Euros plus return shipping and...

This past week I received a response to one of my r.a.s. classified ads, the respondent asked me to accept a check for 10 times the item value and offered 150% of the sale price of the item for me to launder the money through my account and wire it to a third party. Some quick research indicated...

Took the canopy cover off in the hanger and there it was. A pile of chewed paper on the seat. Flaming mice have got in again. We now have to derig it and use a borescope to find if they have left anything in inaccesable places. When it last happened a few years ago on another glider we found one...

I just got back from Europe and saw an an twice from Fujitsu-Siemens for a laptop on CNN Int'l. The ad features extensive sailplane shots-great stuff from a promotion standpoint Anybody have any connections to anyone involved with this ad? Chip Fitzpatrick

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, putting the toys away for the winter, its time to think about our squawk lists... Got some equipment not working perfectly ? Perhaps now is a good time to get it serviced ? Perhaps better than waiting for spring, then not being ready for the start of the...

Reducing the drum size has more effect on torque than I realized. My spreadsheet shows 953 lb-ft for 48", 242 lb-ft for 36" and only 85 lb-ft for 24". What do you think? Bob --

Looking for a source for Moffat's text.

Schleicher, very belatedly, now offers an English choice on their web site! While a few links still go to German pages, it is a good step forward for us non-German speakers. Check out the TN/LTA (tech notes) section, and the maintenance notes a the bottom. There were a couple things there I was...

Somehow the date of 11/11 has slipped by without my noting it, and celebrating appropriately, that date marking three years since the last time my foot stepped into a cockpit, also the last time my wallet was totally empty. HOWEVER, not being one too proud to celebrate later rather than...

The ASA recently opened a newsgroup on Yahoo to supplant the one on the SSA site. It will make access easier and allow functions such as email access or web access, and pictures. Please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASA-NewsGroup/ to sign up, so you can start reading the messages and...

I was surprised that Karl's column in the November issue of soaring hasn't generated any comment. To start the thread, I'll point out an important fallacy in Karl's argument. Karl suggests that water is unnecessary: a complicating factor in a sport that only gives advantage if one pilot can...

Looking for the info appearing here a couple of weeks ago about some trousers designed for glider pilots. They had the pockets on sideways and a lateral zipper in the crotch instead of a vertical one in a fly. No search terms I though of would turn up this post.

Glad you were able to get a copy of George Moffat's book, however, soon that will be his first soaring book as he has just completed the manuscript of a second extensively revised version. It should be out of the printer (hopefully) by the SSA Convention. George says it will be a different book,...

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Hi, I just received a batch of new Cambridge products and I really like the small product improvements they've made. The cases of the new 302 and 302A units are now painted with a textured black finish. The original design has unpainted brushed aluminum finish cases. The black case will be...

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