Hi, About 6 months ago the manufacturer of the very popular Canopy Caps became unable to continue production. I hope they will be back in business in the future. I have now found a very nice alternative source for very similar products here in the USA - the SimplyKool Metallic Canopy Covers. ...

THE SEPTEMBER 2011 ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL A wealth of news for soaring pilots from around the world. A 64 page issue. Stories include: 1. The replacement challenge for the Barron Hilton Cup. An exciting new adventure for the World’s top pilots. They don’t come much better than this.

Hi everyone, I'm currently a sport pilot with no other licenses and used to fly gliders a little as a kid when I was stationed in England. I've been thinking of getting my glider rating but had a question about the commercial glider rating. The SSA states: Commercial Pilots-Glider must be at...

Where does one send a recalcitrant EW loger for repairs ?

It's 6:30 EDT and I can't access most of the SSA site. Wonder if it's Others having trouble getting on? Wanted to look at the current contest page for down in Texas. Thanks Gary Adams GA2

I fly an ASW-28. The under-surface of the wing has a nice little piece of plastic that covers the dump valve and which is hinged by a piece of cloth tape. When flying with water ballast my assumption is that correct procedure is to leave the piece of plastic in place, but open and hanging down from...

Well about half of the posts re flaps only gliders made me feel positive about the possibility of finding a glider with flaps only, and the other half made me feel just the opposite. I guess you could dump flaps on final rather quickly if your speed was above stall for all ranges of the flaps as...

Experimental Soaring Association 2011 Western Workshop Friday evening Sept. 2 – Monday Sept. 5, 2011 (Labor Day Weekend) Mountain Valley Airport (L94), Tehachapi, California No pre-registration necessary NOTES:

I find it odd that there's no posts regarding the first-time use of PowerFlarm in a US contest. Surely they're all flying with them.

I have been using a GPS Nav and L-Nav combination for a year or so, it came with the glider I procured. Yesterday I lost GPS reception from GPS Nav, first time this has occurred. Wondering what I should try or look for. - Unit is mounted on the shelf behind the pilot in a ASW-20 - nothing...

Hello everyone.... I am new to the sailplane and glider world and am currently overseas in Afghanistan for another 2 weeks or so. This is my final deployment and I am looking to get myself a little something to enjoy now that I have time. I am looking for an affordable and fun flying used glider...

A hearty well done to Devin Bargainnier for his win on day 3 at the Jr World Gliding Championships. This is a fine result for a fine young American pilot. We hope for more to come. UH

Courtesy of a volcano. http://tinyurl.com/3uebc43 An extreme case, of course, but pretty cool to watch. -Evan Ludeman / T8

Interesting article about Duke engineers applying their passive, engineered material light/sound cloaking techniques to water, theoretically (substantially) reducing the amount of drag generated by a boat's hull by 'tricking' the surrounding water into standing...

The SPOT tracking map for the Llano, Texas Region 10 contest will be available at: http://www.hawketracking.org/ghsa/files/trackinglarge.htm TA

Check out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXwy7dsLndM ....for a nice/useful/short video of two flapped landings in an HP-14, owned/flown/filmed by Wayne Paul (and posted here with his permission). Curious reader-pilots may find the following information helpful, should they attempt to...

Matti Adolfsen wrote: I have problems with 2 aircraft receiver-transmitters. I think I can solve this problem by reverse-engineering the RF stage, still I think a schematic might help.

It's beginning to seem like common practice to have multiple accidents at glider contests these days. I really hate to see accidents get hushed up, nothing mentioned on the contest report, except for a simple "W" and "F" next to the persons score. We can all learn from these accidents, why hide...

Hi When I set my Lx 7000 to Netto, my vario needle indicate +1.8 kt on the ground. When I choose vario or relative vario the needle indicate 0. Why is that? Thank you, Gilles

We are planning a Parowan, UT outing if anyone is interested for the 20th and 21st of august. Possibly the 19th also if we get enough gliders committed to coming up on Friday. If anyone is interested email me.