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What glider if not a Speed Astir?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...e this matters a lot. The Libelle is probably the easiest and lightest of all gliders to rig. I have flown a Junior, it is a nice glider and an obvious first solo glider for a club to own. But the...
Sunday, 03 August 2008
Speed Astir II B
(Forums / General Discussions)
...lem once you get the hang of fitting it all together. Did I mention that the wings are heavy? I have not flown a PIK-20, but I get the impression that the PIK and the Grob are somewhat similar in hand...
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Las Vegas Wave
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...24,750 which got Paul Robinson his diamond altitude in his Phoebus. The other glider was an ASK-21 being flown dual. M Eiler...
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Aerotow rope drogue chute?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...d after release the rope wrapped round a tailplane. Also, in the U.K. there was a fatality to a Bocian flown solo when the rope fouled the glider, I am not sure whether this was after release or due...
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
High tow vs. low tow for rough tows (long)
(Forums / General Discussions)
...lack. The gliderports that use wave (including Minden) are apparently familiar with the latter... I've flown through rotor and soared wave (in a Katana), but never under tow (self-launch). It's hard...
Saturday, 19 July 2008
To Walter Eisele and Comrades
(Forums / General Discussions)
...manufactured crap? Lak-17 showed its perfomance at Lezsno last summer and it wasn't bad at all. Tanel (flown Blaniks Jantars and Laks- all so called eastern-block manufactured crap)...
Sunday, 06 July 2008
Texas Winter Down Wind Dash Contest?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
... a handicapped open distance contest during December, January, and February? Longest handicap distance flown in Texas wins. Bill Snead...
Sunday, 06 July 2008
One Design viability?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...that the other classes are held. There are people who would fly for a world title in the class if it was flown and promoted that way....
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Student-Instructor question (USA)
(Forums / General Discussions)
...orized instructor on his or her student pilot certificate for the specific make and model aircraft to be flown; and (2) An endorsement in the student's logbook for the specific make and model aircra...
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Why does PW-5 get no respect?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
... also a requirement for the World Class design. In my opinion the PW-5 is a superb glider (yes, I have flown one a lot) for the requirements it had to meet. The only thing I would be different is th...
Monday, 16 June 2008
Thermal locators!
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
... been located given a particular day, time of day and wind variables. Works pretty good, but if you have flown many years at one site you know where the thermals are anyway, if there are any thermals ...
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Gliders for the larger pilot
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
.... Rental rate REALLY reasonable. I managed to wedge myself into a PW-5, and I'm sure that I could have flown it if I used enough vaseline, and didn't need to move the stick, or wiggle the rudder, or...
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
...with the tow plane sitting doing nothing once they were all lanched. This is in New Zealand. I haven't flown many places in the US, but they have generally been much more expensive (except, possibly...
Monday, 02 June 2008
Coordinated turning stall and spins
(Forums / General Discussions)
...n of the Lark, although it's possible that they vary considerably from one IS28 to another. I have never flown one that behaves as you describe. The IS28B2 that I just sold (SN 102) behaved more or ...
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Soaring magazine
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
From time to time, I have flown searches for the CAP in Alaska. One thing that downed pilots have to remember is that finding crashes from the air in remote areas is not as easy as it might sound. TM.
Thursday, 22 May 2008
D-8 Info
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Jeez, that's awfully rough words, Bob. I know of two that have flown. There was an article by Kevin Renshaw (mid 1980s, Dallas area, I think) that flew one 'open cockpit'. Terrible glide, as I recall.
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Wave Off on Early Tow Question
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...t of curiosity, so your results may vary. They glide OK straght ahead, but not when you're turning. Even flown right, it still comes down like a beveled refridgerator. I'll do 200' in gliders all day ...
Friday, 16 May 2008
Snow in November ? AU
(Forums / General Discussions)
Never flown a glider in snow it was west of Sydney its summer time for the northern people. The glider need a good tub to clean sparrow poo wings LOL
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Magic
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Now that the field has dried out, I've finally flown the 303 Mosquito my partner and I bought a month ago. 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' Arthur C. Clarke, '
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Barograms
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
...oaring.net/ 'Cross Country Soaring The aim of this project is to collect interesting flights (>600 Km) flown across the Alps. From there, you can study the IGC files and learn ! read more... ' Bes...
Monday, 28 April 2008
Life Insurance-Rated policies
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
... of hours per year, they load up the policy. Might be a goot idea to only log say 1/2 the actual hours flown! Ian...
Sunday, 20 April 2008
... are on the Pilot ranking list, the lower your preferential entry number. In other words, If you haven't flown a contest before, you have the highest possible preferential entry. We also intend to hav...
Saturday, 12 April 2008
SparrowHawk Sailplane
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...unt of time just getting to the site - and then the wind is across the launch and you go home not having flown at all. I didn't have that kind of time. Sailplanes are wonderful but there's simply no...
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
Sparrowhawk vs. Apis
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...nglets Both seem to be very similar gliders. But. Apis seem's to be more 'complete' glider and is also flown more. Also Apis is built by experienced sailplane builders as can't be said for Sparrowha...
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
Open Cirrus - hints for new owner?
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I've just imported an Open Cirrus into the UK and it should be ready to fly in a week or so. I've never flown one before, so would appreciate any hints from those with experience of this glider. I'v
Saturday, 05 April 2008
Libelle 301B needs new owner
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...uys we are mixing up 201 info with 301 info. All 301's have balsa cores and none of them can be leagilly flown in excess of 661 GW, unless they have been licenced Experimental. Now any 201 can be ch...
Thursday, 27 March 2008
How about telling us who you really are? Do you even fly gliders? Have you ever flown gliders? If you won't own up to your real name why don't you disappear in the direction of sci.space.shuttle ? Tha
Saturday, 22 March 2008
302 Netto enhancement?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...e 302 is a BIG gap in functionality to my mind. The thing Tom is missing is a lower performance glider flown in weaker conditions! Chris At 03:24 05 March 2003, Tom Serkowski wrote:...
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Opinions on PW5
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...y poor conditions. And Mike, when you solicit those opinions, also find out if the opiner has actually flown one of the things! Larry Pardue 2I P.S. My last PW-5 flight, until this Saturday was ...
Monday, 17 March 2008
TE compensation problems
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
... a good analogy). It can be as mush as 2-3 meters depending on the stick force. Unfortunately I have not flown any other gliders recently with a quality vario system so I dont have anything to compare...
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
DG100 - Opinions wanted
(Forums / Pictures)
My club has Astirs and I own a DG100 so have flown both. The DG100 is a much better bet than the Astir, much more responsive to fly, gives you more feedback as to what the air is doing and has a bette
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Circling direction
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
english it was written: I've flown a K8 (once) like this recently. The airbreak lever sticks out so much that I could hardly bend my left leg to do a right turn comfortably ... fortunately it was a
Friday, 22 February 2008
Micorair transponder: Anyone using theirs yet?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
I'll post more after this weekend. I have it installed and certified, but have not yet flown with it. However, I have discovered the following 'curiosity, bug, feature'... The transponder draws 10mA
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
HP-11 for sale
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...s (Ball Audio electric, Winter mechanical), Oxygen, Barograph, Trailer and rigging gear. Good condition, flown regularly, located in Southern California asking $9,000, offer, contact Dan 562-761-1630...
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Boy Scouts and Soaring
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
TSA has flown a bunch of Boy Scouts in the last year, some as recently as a month ago.
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Libelle 201 B for sale
(Forums / General Discussions)
...y good condition. Trailer (home-made by Tim Mara). Hangared at Fairfield, Pa. Bought $19K two years ago. Flown few hours since then. Reason for selling: buying Discus. (301) 657-4065...
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
... 25 (have I missed any?) I would like to hear of actual experience where two (or more) sailplanes have flown together at slow speeds - ideally min sink speeds (and where no water ballast was carried...
Monday, 14 January 2008
Help Breaking Bad Habit
(Forums / General Discussions)
..., 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 now without. My problem is, I learned to...
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Gliding on final glide?
(Forums / Pictures)
Ironic, because I bet most of them have never flown anything faster than a 172!
Monday, 07 January 2008
50 km out and return
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...ous IAW with the spirit of the FAI Sporting Code Section 2.1.1.a 'The Silver distance flight should be flown without navigational or other assistance given over the radio (other than permission to l...
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Flying straight down
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Our 1-34 was test flown Sunday following some maintenance work. The pilot reported it was speed limiting to 125mph in the vertical with the dive brakes deployed. This was from approximately 10000msl.
Saturday, 01 December 2007
Tall Pilot
(Forums / General Discussions)
I am 1.88 m and weigh 120 kg, I have flown a 304 for 15 years.... lots of space
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
...spected by YOUR designated inspector? 11) Do all the instruments and such perform properly? 12) Have you flown the exact model yet? Were it up to me, I would opt for a 1984 or newer machine. If ther...
Friday, 09 November 2007
Hi Denton, I have flown out af Fayence in the spring for a few years now, very friendly and competent people. I don't know about their basic training (they sure do it a lot it seems) and how they wo
Thursday, 08 November 2007
Folk, Interested in the views of those that have flown with both and formed an experienced perspective. From what I can see WinPilot is more expensive and I would like to understand if the additio
Saturday, 03 November 2007
Advice for first glider purchase?
(Forums / General Discussions)
...t (used) glider. I have narrowed the choices down to the Discus CS, DG-303, and the ASW-24B. I have only flown the Discus and am looking for someone with time in the 303 or 24B so I can get their opin...
Friday, 02 November 2007
WGC 2003 in Leszno instead of Rieti
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
... half knot thermals to creep around a 300k as there is roaring around 600k at 100kph. By the way we have flown numerous 300ks, 5 x 500k and 2 x 750 in the last month and the season has barely started...
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Mallettec mini vario
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
Thanks for the input. I've never flown with a compensated vario anyway, so I'm well aware of 'stick thermals'. I thought that an audio would help in learning to center. I find it difficult at this poi
Friday, 19 October 2007
Building skills.
(Forums / Pictures)
... pilot. With the all flying tail it does appear sensitive in pitch, but since the only glass ship I have flown is a docile Grob 103 (dual) I am not in a position to evaluate. Any observations, espec...
Monday, 15 October 2007
Soaring in Iceland?
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...not updated). Does anyone know of a contact, or email, or website of the club in Reykjavik? Has anyone flown there? Would they welcome a visitor? Thanks for any info! Ryan Wubben Chapel Hole, NC ...
Friday, 12 October 2007
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