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EAA AirVenture 2008 - Sounds Like Fun
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...commend Hal posts that describe it day by day and probably in a day or two there would be a nice story at Flight Sim Blog. Such big events are always fun and I plan not to miss it again as there are...
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
2008 A Good Year For Novelities
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...hat can happen before the end of 2008. The Piper Jet seems to be particularly promising, loved the test flight video ...
Sunday, 03 August 2008
Cool Podcasts From F-15
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...to podcasts of a test pilot and lot's of cool stuff. I can't say that I know much about the world of demo flights, but when I found this blog I got sucked in to the stories. So if you like aviation tr...
Sunday, 27 July 2008
For Your Information
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...ivil Aviation Organization (ICAO) changed some of the information that is needed to file an international flight plan. The ICAO wants international operators to provide more data regarding their navig...
Friday, 13 June 2008
The Ultimate Flight Experience
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...in space. It seems that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid the 5 million dollars advance payment on a flight to the international space station as reported in the Cosmic Log As part of the dea...
Thursday, 12 June 2008
A Truly Innovative Way To Fly!
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...nnounced today that Cirrus Aircraft will offer Cirrus PerspectiveTM, Garmin's all-glass, fully-integrated flight deck tailored for the Duluth, Minnesota, based aircraft manufacturer and its SR22-G3. ...
Friday, 30 May 2008
Volkslogger won\'t automate
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...cond is "Winpilot Basics" having to do with using the Win Pilot to program the VL, and the last is "VL Preflight". The fourth is "VL Menu" that has several minor errors I have corrected by hand. I hav...
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Volkslogger won\'t automate!
(Forums / General Discussions)
...for the OZ (500 meters, 3km)- all is as it should be as far as I can tell. I have designed a checklist preflight to make sure all is as (I believe) it should be. BUT - when I take it up to fly all is ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
2 Meter Radios
(Forums / General Discussions)
Not in my experience. When hang gliding on a non-XC flight I kept my radio on lowest power setting because anybody I wanted to talk to was within a few miles line of sight. On the days when we got to
Friday, 08 August 2008
Looking for Gliding Clubs
(Forums / General Discussions)
Steve, Please conceder Moriarty, New Mexico as a great spot to come fly. Wave flights all winter and great thermals all summer. I put 7 hours on the Discus this weekend without a problem in great wave
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
Panel mounted WindowsCE device
(Forums / General Discussions)
Install one of those in your cockpit, with a LINUX based flight display program... then you just might have something! This is a project I would be quite interested in, but working in Starbucks or McD
Monday, 04 August 2008
The "Complex" TAS calculation
(Forums / General Discussions)
...e crazy wind vectors. From a Glider pilot's perspective, TAS is used mostly for calculating the Wind in flight, whether or not you have a GPS. Modern gliders usually have a Thermometer in the dash...
Sunday, 03 August 2008
What glider if not a Speed Astir?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Have to agree Chris, but also disagree. For what it is worth, I will give my experience of recently getting to the point of having my own XC aircraft. Most of the first generation glass ships have
Sunday, 03 August 2008
Movie, "Winged Migration" on STARZ this Sat
(Forums / General Discussions)
...cessfully 'taught' them to migrate in the absence of the parents.. Heck of a story.. AMAZING close up flight shots of the birds.. If only we could fly as well..... Dave...
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Speed Astir II B
(Forums / General Discussions)
In my case 'novice' means about 20 training flights & a few solo flights in a Grob 103 II A. I guess I'm really just a beginner!
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Las Vegas Wave
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Wave Conditions in the Las Vegas Valley last Sunday. Flights to 17,000 ft, no planned wave window to get higher. I've read reports from Colorado, but have heard nothing from Minden, Tehachapi or C
Monday, 28 July 2008
Jantars are back :)
(Forums / General Discussions)
Woo-hoo! Let's hear it for the worlds fastest 63 statute mile glider flight!
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
1000 hours in PW5 by Oz Pilot
(Forums / General Discussions)
On my silver 'long sit' first 5 hour flight in the PW-5, I remember I stayed really high during the whole flight and hit a lot of thermals. My toes felt like frozen peas and my feet were totally cramp
Monday, 21 July 2008
High tow vs. low tow for rough tows (long)
(Forums / General Discussions)
While towing for Hollister, I noticed their instructor really liked to practice slack line. So for my flight review in Avenal yesterday, we did a bunch of slack line corrections. We did them during
Friday, 18 July 2008
Briegleb 12B - Opinions?
(Forums / General Discussions)
...aircraft manufacturer at the very least should have aircraft grade materials, engineering, and a rigorous flight testing program. If you're seriously interested in restoring a glider the Vintage Sailp...
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Instruction Idea
(Forums / General Discussions)
...uld give the instructor plenty to talk about and be able to show good examples. It should all work in one flight I would think. Anyone agree?...
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Overstocked on PDA's
(Forums / General Discussions)
...xx isn't quite bright enough to overcome the ambient light levels and glare. To make either one usable in flight, I have to do without terrain, use the largest fonts available, and use a very contrast...
Wednesday, 09 July 2008
got a bunch of old ones here for you http://www.silentflight.com/flights/ Al
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
Handicapping distributed competitions
(Forums / General Discussions)
How do we go about handicapping flights made on different continents in different ships? There are several online competition sites in operation but they seem to apply a standard ship handicap without
Sunday, 06 July 2008
One Design viability?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...lly if one lands in a limited area paddock and has low number of hours logged. I just remember from these flights that the PW-5 is just the fun to fly, and the Jantar Standard experience was a bit str...
Thursday, 03 July 2008
Slipping in Turns
(Forums / General Discussions)
... better, a slight slip or a slight skid?' Since we try to hold the yaw string at 0 degrees in wings level flight, holding it at 5 to 10 degrees shouldn't be any more difficult. As others have alluded,...
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Will US Sport Pilot be insurable?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...Then the new sport pilot can take a passenger (spouse, kids, parents, friends) on lovely and quiet sunset flights in the 2-33... And there is a large pool of instructors who can also become sport gl...
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Klaus does it again in Argentina
(Forums / General Discussions)
This flight will earn him the Dr. Joachim Kuettner Trophy & $5000 prize for the 1st 2000km straight distance flight! Congratulations
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
IGC APproval for GPS with WAAS
(Forums / General Discussions)
...therefore suspicious. I don't see how you could use that to make any significant difference to a glider flight....
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Underwater Gliders
(Forums / General Discussions)
Check this out: http://www.deepflight.com/subs/dfa.htm I think it was a former astronaut who wrote a novel featuring a 'flying' submersable that used thermal currents and thermocline intefaces to
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
...ect: Date of effect now 1 April 2004 for revised IGC-approval conditions for certain legacy types of GNSS flight recorder. An announcement was recently made to the effect that a number of types of l...
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Aft CG limit(s)
(Forums / General Discussions)
Is it possible you're mixing apples & oranges? The July 1977 ASW 20 handbook Flight manual p.18 lists a firm *in flight* cg range of 240 mm (9.45') to 360 mm (14.17') aft of datum, with the datum bein
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Nother PW-5/World Class question
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
.... Hmmm...I'm going to do a little investigation into insurance for LS-4, PW-5, and 101D. Then perhaps a flight to Minden, CA for an LS-4 flight ;-)...
Friday, 20 June 2008
...lle gave up gliding. Assuming we're not buried under 20 inches of fluffy water, we'll make as many glider flights as possible. We're also inviting club members to bring out their aeroplanes, so anyone...
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Student-Instructor question (USA)
(Forums / General Discussions)
... in a student's logbook (61.89 (a) (8). Below is the operative section of part 61 concerning solo student flight: 61.87 L) Limitations on student pilots operating an aircraft in solo flight. A stude...
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Soaring in an Airplane (Katana DA-C1)
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...otor glider - A fixed wing aerodyne equipped with means of propulsion (MoP) capable of sustaining soaring flight without thrust from the means of propulsion' So it seems that even a 737 can be consi...
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Thermal locators!
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Check out the thermal finder in WinPilot. WinPilot XP takes logger flights, IGC files, and produces a thermal data base. You need to have WinPilot XP for your desktop computer and WinPilot ADV or PRO
Sunday, 15 June 2008
...y trusted parties knowing the secret key. These trusted parties include anyone writing software to upload flights (which I suspect is the reason they would never give me the specs for writing mac soft...
Monday, 09 June 2008
2004 Vågå Wavecamp
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...esse-wave' is a predictable wave. One day at the 2002 camp this wave produced 32 diamond badges out of 62 flights. One flight at the same camp was credited an altitude record of 10350 meter (The actua...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Jantar 2A opinions sought
(Forums / General Discussions)
...er was a Jantar-1, the 19 m older version of the Jantar 2, but very much the same. I did most of my badge flights in this ship in the 1980's in South Africa. I flew a lot with the top 15- m ships of...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Flaps and V-Tails of Death
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
Hi all, I'm here to report that I cheated death and survived a flight in a glider with the dreaded 'Landing Flaps and V-Tails of Death'. Jim Harper graciously allowed me to fly his beautiful HP-16.
Saturday, 07 June 2008
ELTs are a joke
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...mation at hand, the box would assess the impact energy and location, and place a satellite call for a MediFlight helicopter or ambulance as appropriate. Just some into-the-box thinking. Bob K....
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
Question to our Italian friends
(Forums / General Discussions)
...n all of Italian airspace, effective 30-6-2003 XPDR is mandatory already from now, in gliders, only for flights in class C, D, E airspace. (not much of that is close to the areas where we use to fly...
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Coordinated turning stall and spins
(Forums / General Discussions)
...in recovery I moved the flap to the first negative position. Though this is not expressly dictated in the flight manual, the ensuing dive will certainly exceed the flap redline (including 0 degrees). ...
Friday, 30 May 2008
Thin flexible solar panels
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...', I'm including the time it's tied out, as it would be at a soaring camp or on a safari, and a five hour flight. Has anyone used these, or know anything about them? Are there any better units than ...
Friday, 30 May 2008
3D topo ridge maps
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
... region. Heights are given in feet. All airports even with the right heading of the runway and much other flight relevant information are marked. As is it made for Pilots flying relatively quick over ...
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
800SkyRide.com
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
...any experiences with 800SkyRide.com that you have. whether you are a soaring operation or signed up for a flight through them....
Sunday, 25 May 2008
D-8 Info
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
... bit, to maybe 35 feet. Polished metal except for bright orange nose and wing tips. Flew some pretty good flights with it. It is the one in the picture (in flight, too, Bob!) in the old EAA magazines ...
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
What next?
(Forums / General Discussions)
...id my best landing ever, and never since have I been able to make such a perfect landing (the next 2 solo flights I made very sloppy landings! Eek!)...
Sunday, 18 May 2008
First Post: Hello!
(Forums / General Discussions)
Upload some gliding pics any time you like at www.gliderforum.com Regards Al www.silentflight.com
Saturday, 17 May 2008
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