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The Ultimate Flight Experience
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No I'm not talking first class I'm talking about flying 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 stat
Thursday, 12 June 2008
A Truly Innovative Way To Fly!
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...ommitted to bringing customers a safe and quality aircraft, and we are confident Cirrus pilots will enjoy flying with Garmin's industry leading, all-glass integrated flight deck." "As a pilot, you s...
Friday, 30 May 2008
The Next Best Thing To Satellites
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...imals, a field would be filled with warriors and weapons. Brightly colored parachutes, popping out of low-flying planes like flags from a magician’s hat, would briefly cover acres of sky. Fleets of ...
Monday, 21 April 2008
Are You Into Toy planes?
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...g the creation of the model and even constructing it with him if he is old enough. Going to the field and flying the model that we built for so many hours and explainign about the different airplanes....
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Something From The History
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...ts to operate bombs by gyro or radio. Some time before Germany’s introduction of the gyro-controlled flying torpedo, the Nazis demonstrated another way of guiding crew-less missiles with their ra...
Thursday, 06 March 2008
Military remote controlled aircraft
(Forums / General Discussions)
No, I don't have a link to any sources for any of the R/C stuff I see flying over here. If I took pictures and posted them, they would probably kill me, or at the very least, put me in jail!( . I've
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Volkslogger won\'t automate
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...s is supposed to occur automatically on startup of the VL. Unfortunately this is costing me expensive flying time to do these experiments, and I suspect I am making an error somewhere. I suppose I...
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Competition I.D.
(Forums / General Discussions)
...s assigned (more or less) to gliders. In a comp, we always have a specified safety frequency. For general flying around, we often have agreements on what frequencies will be used in specific areas. If...
Monday, 11 August 2008
Best Glider for Altitude Record Attempt?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...min. sink of about 3.45ft/sec. at 51 mph (figures from the book), it also had poor penetration. They were flying from Bishop, California. They had state-of-the-art oxygen equipment and clothing, sup...
Friday, 08 August 2008
2 Meter Radios
(Forums / General Discussions)
...erator far longer than I have been a glider pilot and I have never even considered taking a 2-meter radio flying with me. Why would I want to carry yet another radio? Vaughn (WB4UHB)...
Thursday, 07 August 2008
Looking for Gliding Clubs
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...ent. During the summer time, the thermals regularly go well above 18,000 feet and there is great flatland flying to the south and beautiful mountain flying to the north, your choice! The Texas Soaring...
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
The "Complex" TAS calculation
(Forums / General Discussions)
...% or 5kt in a certified aircraft. Typical installations are actually very accurate, within 1kt at typical flying speeds. Hence, the use of IAS for calculating TAS is prfectly acceptable, in fact don...
Monday, 04 August 2008
...ld thread, where Mr. Prindle asked us before, and we gave him advice. Not good enough? When I was still flying a Grob Twin IIISL out of our very busy Aspen airport, which probably does not handle as...
Sunday, 03 August 2008
What glider if not a Speed Astir?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
... of the first generation glass ships have some quirks, but they are generally easy to fly. If it is still flying after 20-30 years it can't be THAT fragile iether. I made my transition as a very low...
Sunday, 03 August 2008
Hey Trace, Any thoughts of a Calendar? I bet it would sell well and be a collectors item years down the road when you're a NASA astronaut. :) I'd buy one... I've seen a lot of bright young men in
Saturday, 02 August 2008
Movie, "Winged Migration" on STARZ this Sat
(Forums / General Discussions)
...hy. Then there's 'Fly Away Home' which is semi ficticious and is about a guy who, with his daughter and flying in two ultralights, leads a small flock of Canada geese from Canada to a winter home ne...
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Speed Astir II B
(Forums / General Discussions)
...s.. then have fun... it's a great glider.. they did not call it 'speed' for it's looks.. any consistent flying in glass birds and you should be able to handle the Speed Astir.. BT...
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Flying in France
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A few weeks ago I asked for help flying at CNVV and a pilot from Alaska responded. My computer died and I have lost your address. I have more questions.
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
hang gliding position
(Forums / General Discussions)
...ing to be more in a laying down position. Is this just a quality of the type of harness used? The idea of flying seem more appealing while lying down (more like birds fly, not standing up). -Robert,...
Sunday, 27 July 2008
Aerotow rope drogue chute?
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... If this has been the recommended method for three years why hasn't it reached the rest of us? Our Chief Flying Instructor makes an effort to get recently qualified instructors to pass on what they h...
Friday, 25 July 2008
Long Tow Rope Pros & Cons
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... me. Got towed with a 60' rope once (really short field). No problems but it required much more precise flying....
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
High tow vs. low tow for rough tows (long)
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...happened two years ago at the Cambridge Gliding Club though not as a result of using low tow. The tug was flying too slow and the Puchacz on the back got gradually lower, ending up pulling the tugs ta...
Monday, 21 July 2008
Jantars are back :)
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On the 1st December 2003, H. Miranda (Argentina) flying Jantar Standard 2 has set a new World Record over the 100km triangular course in Open and 15-metre classes. The speed was 249.09 kph.
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Instruction Idea
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...I think it is a good one. I think during the instruction before solo, a studnet should have to experience flying close to another plane. I'm at a quiet gliderport and all through my instruction I clea...
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Briegleb 12B - Opinions?
(Forums / General Discussions)
...egory....I would not want one today, nor would I like to see anyone without a lot of experience and skill flying these type s today....aside from that, you have to remember they are all experimental, ...
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Overstocked on PDA's
(Forums / General Discussions)
...isplay visibility problem. The only drawback is actually the poor autonomy on internal battery. As I am flying club gliders, I am using a set of 4 D-size NiCd batteries (4400 mAh @ 4.8 V) which allo...
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
Handicapping distributed competitions
(Forums / General Discussions)
...' cloudbase and 5 knot average climbs hope to compare his performance to the guy in an ASW28 at 55kg sq m flying in South Africa with 15000' cloudbase and 7 M/S thermals? The Hilton Cup OLC gets aro...
Sunday, 06 July 2008
Texas Winter Down Wind Dash Contest?
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Well Bill, with your proven and authenticated knowledge of the downwind aspects of Texas flying, your fantastic crew, and the humble handicap of the PW-5 (which many others believe isn't an XC ship,)
Sunday, 06 July 2008
Strobes
(Forums / General Discussions)
...t reflective film ( 3M mirror ) seemed the best solution. ( S&G Aug/Sep 2003 ) Perhaps we should all be flying polished HP18's! Ian...
Sunday, 06 July 2008
Final Glide for Don Dorrell
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...2 weeks before the ship was ready to fly again, I sent him a registered letter which said, Do you want me flying an aircraft that is legally registered to you? Got my properly signed paper work in r...
Friday, 04 July 2008
One Design viability?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Trolling the aviation groups with your BS about flying. What is next? You have a hundred thousand hours and have test flown 5000 types, flew relief missions to Africa and are the world's greatest phys
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Slipping in Turns
(Forums / General Discussions)
...of a winglet airfoil for low-speed aircraft)it turns out that gliders equipped with winglets do not favor flying in a slip. In other cases (gliders with no winglets), especially the open class gliders...
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Will US Sport Pilot be insurable?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...has the veto power. Will Sport Pilot, Jane, and Dennis be able to convince insurers to cover this kind of flying? There are more than 22 glider operations in California (including Reno ;) and half o...
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Flying in Argentina
(Forums / General Discussions)
I may be going to Buenos Aires for work, and keep hearing about flying in Argentina. Chos Malal in particular. Can anyone tell me particulars on flying in Argentina? Is there some way for me to get to
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Underwater Gliders
(Forums / General Discussions)
...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 soar around the oc...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Aft CG limit(s)
(Forums / General Discussions)
...aused by the wing water. Many ships will have a tail water tank to accomplish this. That is, unless I'm flying the Genesis 2, then I must add water to my nose water tank, because the wing tanks are ...
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Volkslogger, LX160 and WinPilot ADV
(Forums / General Discussions)
.... We already have the mounting and power supply ready but need to wire it all together. Also if anyone is flying with such a configuration, we would be pleased to learn which software version of the V...
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Soaring in North Dakota
(Forums / General Discussions)
To my knowledge, there are some privately-owned gliders in the Fargo, ND area, but no local flying clubs that I'm aware of. I'm a member of the Civil Air Patrol here in Fargo, and we are working har
Friday, 20 June 2008
...m like the Wrights, Voisins, Farmans etc. had it right in the 1910s and.. flash forward to 1980 when true flying was rediscovered, never mind the heavier and faster perversions of Curtiss, Boeing etc....
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Student-Instructor question (USA)
(Forums / General Discussions)
Does instructor have to on the ground when a student is flying? Can the CFIG be towing or giving other instruction?
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
...ys buy more bird for the buck with an obsolete Std or 15mtr ship, but you end up in the same boat. A nice flying airplane that is uncompetitive in un-handicapped contests but great for badge flying. ...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Soaring in an Airplane (Katana DA-C1)
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...lot who got his 5 hour duration on a Cessna 180 back in the 1960's. He has over 150 hours enging off time flying in the Sierra wave. One thing he found was that after a couple hours of cold soaking th...
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Life insurance
(Forums / General Discussions)
...nd I was told my premium would go through the roof. When I reminded them that they covered me while I was flying for the DOD, the concession was a temporary draconian rate until I log like 70 hours an...
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Why does PW-5 get no respect?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...ot for you either. If beauty is a big factor, and it kinda is for me, get an ASW-27. If you want a nice flying glider that has performance for all badge work, that will give you good experience and ...
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Gliders for the larger pilot
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...ne in the 2003 OLC USA division. My Nimbus 3 is ranked about 89th or so... I can't wait to get my 1-26A flying again so I can move my ranking up a bit. hee,hee ;-)...
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Jantar 2A opinions sought
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... elbow grease. I do keep it tide down with covers. I enjoy the long wing feelings other than when I'm dry flying rough rotor low on the peaks. Happy Landings, Mitch Herold/CO...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Concept 70 opinions
(Forums / Pictures)
...k from other owners has been as well. It performs at the level of a Standard Cirrus and is honest in it's flying characteristics. The cockpit is large and comfortable. In fact the tooling is not destr...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Flaps and V-Tails of Death
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...full divebrakes. Steeper than a Mosquito with everything hanging out. This was more like parachuting than flying. Nothing but dirt out the front of the canopy. The horizon was visible more towards the...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
2004 Vågå Wavecamp
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...tration has opened at http://www.wavecamp.no/ The best wave soaring site in Europe ! Enjoy the mountain flying in Norway....
Friday, 06 June 2008
Help-Flying in France
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Can someone help me with flying at the French national soaring school? No one responds to my inquiries on their web site.
Friday, 06 June 2008
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