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...gger, but sometimes there is a transfer failure. I cannot download or upload turnpoints. I can change the flight data (pilot name, type of glider, etc). The colibri does also beep when using the old L...
Fantastic! Nice way to look at flight traces
... altitude increases? I am a doc and looking for detailed medical information relating these systems to in-flight pulse oximeter oxygen saturations. Even better would be altitude chamber ABGs. I have s...
On the OLC http://www.segelflugszene.de/ I saw a flight out of Braunschweig on 733km, feb 28. 2003. Is that for real, or is some ome uploading old files? If not, then congrats to the pilot on the ve
...ence would give primary glider instruction to a power pilot to the point of license (if possible) or solo flight. Anybody know? If they won't or can't then would another school in the area (e.g., Sain...
... into SeeYou and was astounded at the stats. Embarrasingly, I turned left 96% of the time, and 60% of the flight was spent circling. But what really openned my eyes was my average L/D! The old 1-34 ac...
...w. Cloud bases are over 18K and very little overdevelopment in the afternoons. Last Saturday I did a 'fun flight' out of Canon City to a little south of Santa Fe and overshot the return to land at Kel...
...uthern Cross Gliding Club. Reporter Francene Scali (also the host of Channel 9's 'Marry Me' series) had 3 flights in a glider with Air Experience Instructor Don Palmer, with a selection of cameras ins...
Having tried CU for the first time, a couple of days ago, looking at some of my flights that I have downloaded from the club a/c I notice that I spend upwards of 80% of the time circling to the left.
The NY Assembly just passed bill A11863 which requires flight schools to have criminal background checks done on all students attending flight training schools. It now goes on to the State Senate. All
Ok flight sim fans SFS 4.0 has a new patch out and a couple of new planes to add as well as information on making your own 3D objects and planes. www.sfspc.de for more info
...want to do this to prevent overpressurization in case there is still air left in the bags from a previous flight....
Tim Mara claimed the Region III boomerang trophy yesterday on 304C '1M' with a flight from Brokenstraw Airport (P15) to Dart Field (D79). Originally Tim and club member Dan Olson on LS3 'X2' had set o
...nd TRACON RADAR here does seem to have a problem seeing gliders. With help from the Luke AFB RAPCON, some flight tests were conducted using a small light RADAR reflector internal to the glider to impr...
Hi Folks, I wondered if anyone else has had a similar problem with a relatively (20 flights) new Tost drum brake. Up until two flights ago, it operated smoothly and somewhat effectively. Then, on
At the end of the balloon flight, Peter Jennings (ABC News in USA), said that Steve Fossett would be attempting a world record glider flight. As this was being told, they showed footage of a vintage F
Recently I made a ridge flight out of Ridge Soaring in PA, using a Cambridge GPS-Nav for data logging. Having finished the flight with a (safe) land-out, I later wanted to examine in detail what my lo
...ne have any information on the internal battery capability of Palm handhelds running SoaringPilot on long flights, especially with the logger function on. Does turning the logger function on make an...
... got to experince a 6-8kt climb of nearly 8,000ft in a matter of minutes, his ideas of 'effortless silent flight' have been somewhat shattered by a noisy butter-churning sky-flogging in the venerable ...
I'm coming up on 20 hours and 50 flights, and ready to solo more frequently. I've been getting instruction and focusing on coring thermals. I've flown in various 2-33's some with a ball guage, mainly
Hi, In wave flight in Chos Malal (Patagonia Argentina) is very easy to climb up to 8000 m (26000 ft) or 10000 m (32800 ft). Generally the glider doesnt use water, but I read a Jim Payne Soaring arti
... do you envisage to do so ? Identified problems are the risk of falsifying output, not providing enough flight continuity check, or inaccuracy (or more exactly differences between real altitude and ...
Soloed today after 6 hrs with 25 flights .skys were clear air was good and it felt great. and now on to the full ticket
Has anyone any experience with hooking up a Colibri to an LX-160 flight computer. I have recently purchased both units and the manuals are kinda vaque in what cable goes where. I purchased them pre-
Yesterday we had a 97 year old man booked for a trial flight. No problem. We let them drive their car right onto the airfield, and had plenty of people on hand to lift him in/out of the Twin Astir.
I'd like to try an oximiter for monitoring oxygen saturation while wave flying, but the Nonin Flightstat looks awkward to use, especially with mittens and a flapped glider, and has limited battery lif
... heres an interesting situation; Currently, if I am a UK citizen and a US resident (as I am) and I make a flight in the US under a US sporting license which breaks both US and UK records, (which I did...
...talling and dumping me over. i pay a lot more attention to the string now. anyways, i had my longest solo flight yesterday, it could have been longer, but i had to go to work. i have to pay off my clu...
...United Instruments LA-72-1 Airspeed Indicator Winter 6FMS423 Variometer Borgelt B-40 Radio Becker AR-4201 Flight Computer Filser LX5000FAI GPS LCD Vario/Multi Filser LX20 LCD Clock ASTRO LC-2 O2 AEROX...
Folks, Just posted a new version of the WinICGtoPOV converter for rendering flights in 3d. New this go around are settable vertical exaggeration and the ability to set both camera and lookat point Lat
...uick time movies of Michael Cahoon's (Memphis Soaring Society; Forrest City Airport; Arkansas, USA) first flights in his dad's ASW-28. The smallest movie is 1 MB so I recommnd verifying that you have ...
Hi, Can anyone comment on the realities of self-launching and low saves with an ASW-24 E? Good flights,
...hould one open the ballast valves when the ship experiences large pressure differences from high altitude flights to prevent damaging the bags? thanks,...
I took the afternoon off work and enjoyed a great soaring flight today. I haven't flown for several months and this was a great flight to blow off the cobwebs and knock off the rust. Cloud base was
Those of you venturing out on you first flight of the year please be careful. A good friend of mine lost his life yesterday flying here in the mountains. Happy landings to all.
... trying to learn flying gliders. And don't try to mess with me I now have 35 minutes in my logbook with 4 flights...So I should now ; ) I went through the book my instructor gave me, and every time ...
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...ive in the program. No details as to causal factors; however, the mishap pilot did allude to unresponsive flight controls (unverified info)....
... these witnesses, the glider appeared to be recovering from a spin. A glider pilot who witnessed the in-flight breakup stated that his glider was soaring about 1,000 feet below the accident glider w...
...a 1 off (or limited run) Discus where the ends of the wings disconnected after the ailerons for aerobatic flight....
At long last 1LK (my new LAK17) has flown. Jason Stephens from Arizona Soaring made the first flight to explore the handling and explain it to me. I've made two flights so far totaling just over an ho
...are flown with an aft cg? If the flying wing had an aft cg configuration would it be controllable in slow flight and if so, wouldn't it have a better climb performance? Would that then hurt its high s...
...2002/10/07/1033538882266.... Each year thousands of daredevils follow in the footsteps of the father of flight - Lawrence Hargrave - and launch their hang-gliders from the spectacular Bald Hill. S...
...limits for min. weights. Is this sufficent to satisfy the FAA requirement for weight and balance prior to flight? Blue Skies,...
...mit) only allow 'automatic' logging, which causes the log to overflow after a short amount of thermalling flight. 7) Vista, 76S and 196 all have 'WAAS' enhanced accuracy, which could mean for the 19...
In the 28 years I have been flying gliders in region 11, we have had 12 attempted flights with a control disconnected; Pegasus
...anderson the week that he moved to Hobbs. No Irish Allowed. (P.S. I was reviewing your most excellent flight of August 10 on 3D Tracer and you flew the task in the opposite direction.)...
Do I have to 'notch' a gps flight recorder? When using a barogram, I would dive a couple of hundred feet right off of tow and then pull up. But with gps (in my case, a Volkslogger) does anything speci
...cted things to move faster. In reality, the tow seemed to give plenty of time to respond. On the second flight, I had a different glider and a different instructor. This time I was quicker to attain...
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