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EAA AirVenture 2008 - Sounds Like Fun
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
No I wasn't there this year but still it is one of the biggest events that I know of in the field. If you want to really feel what was going on I can recommend Hal posts that d
Wednesday, 06 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 t...
Sunday, 27 July 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
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
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
High tow vs. low tow for rough tows (long)
(Forums / General Discussions)
I agree: 'interesting'... 150ft is a rope used in first flights here (Poland), the longest. The only situations when we use longer ropes is the triple tow (30, 50 and 75 metres). I'd rather say, that
Sunday, 20 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)
...ally 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 st...
Thursday, 03 July 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 g...
Sunday, 29 June 2008
IGC APproval for GPS with WAAS
(Forums / General Discussions)
...w* that WAAS works like this. In any case I dont see any point in the enhanced accuracy of WAAS for glider flights. The errors in the normal GPS signals are already small enough. I just dont want to s...
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
...usted to the new 'all IGC badge and distance diploma' level. This level excludes evidence for world record flights. Originally the date on which this was to take effect was 1 January 2004. After the...
Sunday, 22 June 2008
...ille 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 anyon...
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Student-Instructor question (USA)
(Forums / General Discussions)
...ion could be worded to apply to the entire 90 days solo privileges are granted, or to some magic number of flights, or when specified winds/weather are forecast or observed. If any such limitation i...
Thursday, 19 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
...ly 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 sof...
Monday, 09 June 2008
2004 Vågå Wavecamp
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...Tesse-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 actu...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Jantar 2A opinions sought
(Forums / General Discussions)
...der 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 o...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Question to our Italian friends
(Forums / General Discussions)
...in 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 fl...
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Coordinated turning stall and spins
(Forums / General Discussions)
...erful advanced trainer for pilots making the transition to glass. My time in the Lark made my first Nimbus flights very comfortable. Bill Daniels...
Saturday, 31 May 2008
D-8 Info
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...a 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)
...did 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 solo
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
... I found that Pearl Harbor day to be quite fitting. I certainly will not forget it's date. I now have 50 flights logged and allot of those solo. Soaring is very enjoyable to me. I love it! Stick w...
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Winching - Reverse Auto Tow
(Forums / Professionals)
...as next to be launched. On high throughput evenings, when we had two K13's doing perhaps 30 air experience flights, there was no need to change them of course. For the tow, the truck had the main cabl...
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Wave over So. Calif?
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
...nd the staff and instructiors there are the best. Actually, 18,000 MSL in wave has given me many beautiful flights....
Sunday, 04 May 2008
Announcing Gliderforums.com
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
... my web site http://home.attbi.com/~bkibby2/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html for information. Over 2 hour flights at Texas Soaring Assoc today. I think summer is here! '2BK'...
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Barograms
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
Hi All, I'm looking for a site with GPS and barogaph information of flights in the Alps. Can anybody help me out? Best regards,
Sunday, 27 April 2008
...it to Cambridge for repair. The conditions at Texas Soaring Association glider port were great today. Many flights over 2 hours. Not Minden but very good in Texas for mid March. Summer is coming to Te...
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
...deciding beforehand what the day's going to be like for setting up club contests or informal cross-country flights. Once we're in the air, I doubt that in-flight information is going to do a lot bette...
Saturday, 12 April 2008
SparrowHawk Sailplane
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...e that doesn't inspect his plane carefully enough and removes the problem on his own. Normally tho, the preflights I've seen done would do justice to most annuals. Just because it's aluminum that it...
Tuesday, 08 April 2008
Glider clubs on public airports (USA)
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...nteresting opinion about the airport manager by the way). Now for a laundry list of other restrictions. No flights on weekdays (which we have abided by for 5 years). They refuse to rent available hang...
Monday, 17 March 2008
MD2 Regulators
(Forums / Pictures)
...e it is not as susceptible to deterioration of elastomer parts. I have used this one for several high wave flights and it performs superbly. Unfortunately it is a large, heavy panel mounted regulato...
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Circling direction
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
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.
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
And these are downwind dashes. The 2460 km and earlier 2000+ km glider flights have all landed at the start point. They did 423 km relative to the ground in a pretty long day. But what was the wind
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Class B accomodations for Soaring
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
...or your airport. On the other hand, Stanton is a short, unpaved runway that will not normally be operating flights that need to be at 10,000MSL over the airport......
Saturday, 02 February 2008
...try flying. I know of very few non-pilots who regularly enjoy riding in two place gliders on cross country flights, it just isn't the same as powered flight. If the boss is a glider pilot, you could g...
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Garmin as a flight recorder
(Forums / General Discussions)
...ee You, and there's no diference between my IGC files and those produced by an IGC-approved logger. Good flights, Jose Manuel Alvarez....
Thursday, 24 January 2008
The new plane is really super. Some great flights recently, but good stuff is still to come when we head for southern France at the beginning of July. Thanks for the site, I'll check it out. Regar
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Flogging a 1-34 around Southern California
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
enjoyed reading the stories of your flights... my Silver Badge flight can be found at www.lvcm.com/btiz TZ
Friday, 18 January 2008
Tost wheel brake vibration
(Forums / General Discussions)
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
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Help Breaking Bad Habit
(Forums / General Discussions)
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
Sunday, 13 January 2008
In-flight oxygen saturations
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...pit work load by not having to constantly monitor and alter O2 flow rates based on altitude. After several flights to just below 18,000 MSL, I have noted an additional benefit: The pulse of O2 which t...
Friday, 11 January 2008
Turn Area Task problems
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
Guy, Maybe it would help if the scoring program also analyzed the flights against Restricted and controlled airspace. The way this contest happened those that flew faster than speeding bullets/art
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Gliding on final glide?
(Forums / Pictures)
...h makes waiting around a major factor. I have often spent a day at the airfield and only had two 20 minute flights in return. Although I understand the need for people to be waiting around to help lau...
Sunday, 06 January 2008
Towing behind an Ultralight
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
...re I drive over 2000 miles to try it... The hang gliders down there at Texas are going to make even Minden flights look short. Someone needs to check it with a sailplane ;-)...
Saturday, 29 December 2007
soloed in az
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
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
Sunday, 23 December 2007
50 km out and return
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
... this. My regrets are only that I think it seriously undermines the value of the FAI badge system. Badge flights were intended to be filed as a self achievement, not a group effort. And, yes, it is ...
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Power consumption
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
...p (1550/WinPilot) but with a C302 for the vario/GPS and have no problem with a 6aH 12V battery for 4+ hour flights. End voltage under load is ~12.2V (there's a second 7aH available too, but I have not...
Friday, 30 November 2007
Flying straight down
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...ether they are speed limiting. You might also want to check the Blanik L-13. In one of my early training flights we made a near-vertical dive from 10,000 ft and the speed didn't go above 120 knots (...
Thursday, 29 November 2007
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