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Are there any gliding sites anywhere near Salt Lake City?
Thanks,
Guy Hall
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Does anybody out there have any information about gliding in Texas? I may have a week or so in the Austin area next August, although I notice that the 'famous' sites such as Uvalde, Hobbs (N...
... 24th until July 6th the Aeroclub Eindhoven (The Netherlands) is organising for the 6th time the EUROGLIDE gliding competition. In 13 days, teams from various European countries will fly a polygon of ...
I consider going 2 or 2 week flying in South Africa this winter (between november and january); If you have feedbacks about the following clubs (or others) please let me know : - ESC - European Soarin...
 
I also have a number of copies of pre-war 'Sailplane and Glider', 'Gliding' and 'Sailplane & Gliding' available.
Having found a superb book binder, I have had all...
THE classic book on Gliding is 'Gliding' by Derek Piggott. Suggest you start with that.
George Emsden
...maintenance and you have £640pa before you have even flown! What happened to the days you read about when gliding was fun and cheep? I might take up hang gliding!...
...gh the complaintspoints about the presentation are valid, I think that they are irrelevant to the aim.
Gliding is suffering a decline in membership. Gliding has always had a terrible public image....
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 ...
...ent through a series of ever higher performing wings until I got involved with sailplanes. By and by, hang gliding became increasingly a back ground activity, mostly because in the Boston MA USA area,...
...uld be cheaper.
The ASW-19 was the machine of choice for the U.K. team in the Junior Sport Class World Gliding Championships this year, it has also been bought by the Surrey & Hants. gliding c...
... spectrum with less frequency congestion and privacy codes. National frequency managers could be sure that gliding clubs did not share common frequencies over a given geographical area. If there reall...
Hi, Does anybody know a contact address to the German Junior Gliding Team who attended the WJGC in August in France? Please help me! Thanks,
Have a look at the B.G.A. web-site http://www.gliding.co.uk/ , go to 'Info for Clubs & Members', then to 'Technical', then to 'Datasheets', and see if the type you ...
Greetings!
I am intending to get an iPaq 3950 with software for gliding and the recommendation is to use Garmin's mouse GPS-35-HVS. It accepts the 12v available in the glider and has the adju...
writes Yes. JJ himself, though no longer gliding has a stock of these things. He lives in Cromer, Norfolk. He has a notice on the board at our club, I will get it for you next time I am there, which w...
...i.e. 'TINSFOS', quoting Platypus, who's been saying that in Sailplane & Gliding for 20 years... with its corrolaries like 'little gliders have the advantage of being easy to...
...ight.com/wavek17_2.jpg
http://www.silentflight.com/ASW20_in_Wave.jpg
http://www.silentflight.com/Gliding/Photos/Archive_3/
archive_3.htm and of course the geese at 18,000ft are on this one ...
was 24,000 feet and 22,000 feet today with 80 launches. Ring Deeside Gliding Club to see if there are any vacancies over the next four weeks.
Ed Colver
... a link to a 639 km flight of his, over 700 points, to look at.
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/
flightinfo.html?dsId=890907
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They have one at Andreas Gliding Club (www.manxgliding.flyer.co.uk) Suggest you contact Bob Fennell (CFI).
Never flown one myself.
Andy
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:56:21 +0000 (UTC), 'Mich...
Years ago in our gliding club PIK ry, couple of mambers constructed a Cl meter, which was propably similar, what you are looking. It was based on a U tube filled with liquid, and the level difference ...
...- 3rd place STD, flew SZD Orion 1974 - Waikerie, AUS - 3rd place STD, flew Jantar Std.
1992 - European Gliding Championship - 1st place.
In 1992 yr. awarded by FAI with Lillienthal Medal,
...
Hang on a minute. I am sure that the weather conditions in Ohio can not be worse than the UK for gliding and we still manage to do decent long cross country flights. Lift of more 6knots is quite rare ...
...them and I did quite a bit of time in them after Ka8s. They are 'pitchy' and even in my previous gliding life when I weighed a lot less, I found them difficult to keep in a spin although tha...
I am a newbie with training and solo time in a Grob 103. I have 800 hours of time in hang gliding---from back in the 90's---and anticipate building 70 to 100 hours in 103's before making my...
In his book 'Gliding Safety' Derek Piggot has a chapter that reviews many sailplanes. It describes the handling characteristics of the planes he reviews. One of the ships he reviews is the A...
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