Over the last two years I've designed and built three Arduino based soaring related devices.. They a 1) Tow Altitude Recorder with tow plane and ground units, 2) Cockpit Dual Battery Voltage & Temp Monitor, and 3)Trailer Lights Monitor. The Tow Altitude Recorder tow plane unit records the...

Hello, Tough one, ASG 32 or HPH Twin Shark. HPH delivery and price is more appealing but did anyone had pleasure to fly one?

Please join us for our upcoming SSA webinar! Registration link at bottom of this email Title SECRET TIPS FROM SEBASTIAN KAWA: THE WORLDS GREATEST SOARING PILOT Description We are kicking off our 2019 "1st Tuesday" Webinar series with a VERY SPECIAL guest. Please join us for what is sure to be...

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'm looking for ideas on how to make professional looking placards/labels for a instrument panel rebuild I'm doing. I need to make tiny labels for fuses, and switches and I hate, hate, hate the look of the continuous strip label maker "sticker" stuck to the panel. It looks tacky, but they never...

I was given an older MH EDS unit to install in my Phoebus glider which I got for a song and am restoring. The glider has a bracket for the oxygen tank, but no tank is installed. The bottom is a rounded fiberglass cup, and there is a flip bracket to go around the neck. It sits behind the seat pan...

Richard Green of the Wycombe Test Group, High Wycombe, Bucks. UK designed and tested an auto release and offered to sell me one back in 1980. His long hand letter to me said that he was "an old age pensioner" so maybe he and his BGA certified release are something of history. The engineering blue...

NCSA (Byron, CA) is looking for a tow plane (Pawnee preferable) in good shape. If you have one or know of one please respond here or directly. Thanks Ramy

US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to demonstrate leadership. God help us all No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....

Recently I Purchased an Astir CS. I was surprise to see that someone installed the spoiler connection bolts the way that if I open the spoiler fully it will jam all the way open. Could anyone share maintenance manual that we can install the new bolts correctly? I have to find out what kind of...

New web layout for OLC, at least on my phone. I liked the old layout, but I balk at change.. Boggs

Thinking of buying a 109A need to know the good the bad and the ugly of it. Just what do I need to know about it, I have had people say stay away from it others say it is good if you know how to fly it ?

I am installing a new vane style antenna for my transponder. My original antenna was located where the cg hook used to be on my discus. This location often tangled with the trailer ramp when loading the glider. Next I tried a whip style on top of my instrument panel cover. All of the self...

I've got a couple of friends who have acquired Androids and installed XCSoar. Both of their gliders have LNAV and GPS-NAV installed. Can their Androids be interfaced to the LNAV via K6-BT or IOIO? It was easy connecting with my 302 and K6-BT... Dan, 5J

This one caught me by surprise: DG announced the LS1-f neo on St. Valentine's Day, 14 FEB 2017. http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/en/dg-aircraft-news/ls1-f-neo-fliegt/14428 Is this all new? Fiberglass? Carbon Fiber? Other? New, or rebuilt old LS1-f?

The SSA Rules Committee would like to gauge pilot interest in attending a potential 20 Meter Multiseat Class National Competition if it were hosted at Mifflin in 2018. The Rules Committee has determined that we need to have at least 12 confirmed entries if we are to proceed. Furthermore, time is of...

Thank you again for your advise. Any more thoughts on the LS4? Any concerns with the age? What should I pay for one? And are there any flying groups for the LS4? Thank you again and I hope I can contribute to the group as I go along. Jeff

I googled this and could not find an answer...and I reread the Code last night...so forgive my denseness...but I cannot figure out--- For a distance task with 3 TP's and no Start Point or Finish Point declared...does the release from tow have to be the start or can it be declared post flight? If...

In power, they're taught to fly patterns with very little bank angle, whereas in gliders we're taught to bank at about 45 degrees or so. I well understand the rationale for banking steeply in gliders, but why are power pilots taught to do shallow turns? TIA for the explanation. Jim...

So some of you really don't think to highly of the Speed Astir. What then would be your recommendations for a first glider for a low time pilot training & soloing in a G103 II A? I need something under $20,000. that will keep me happy for a while. Thanks for your input! David