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The Hottest News Anywhere!
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...earn to fly gliders well enough to be turned loose. Some people get terribly frightened after leaving the ground. But two people out of 30 is a ratio of the normal number of people who probably should...
Monday, 12 May 2008
Competition I.D.
(Forums / General Discussions)
I imagine they were required when turn point verification was done by ground observers. Before my time though. I started with the high tech cartridge cameras but now I can't even remember what the fil
Saturday, 09 August 2008
2 Meter Radios
(Forums / General Discussions)
... on the 2 meter bands they'd be using from 10,000', where they'd get much more range than the hams on the ground? Does that bother the hams?...
Thursday, 07 August 2008
Microphone element swan neck
(Forums / General Discussions)
All my radio problems have always been connections. Not having a good connection to the ground plane of the antenna was a problem once (it had corroded to intermittent high resistance). This was iso
Tuesday, 05 August 2008
The "Complex" TAS calculation
(Forums / General Discussions)
... 'Sophisticated calculation', which is really astonishing. The advent of GPSs with the easy read out of Ground Speed has led to further missunderstanding of what TAS really is or how it's calculated...
Sunday, 03 August 2008
...lying a Grob Twin IIISL out of our very busy Aspen airport, which probably does not handle as well on the ground as the ASH 26 E, I used to do high speed taxis, fast enough so I had aileron Control an...
Sunday, 03 August 2008
What glider if not a Speed Astir?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...ities are no better than average for a low time pilot ( 500km and one over 800km under the belt, has been groundlooped, landed in rough fields and landed without the benefit of the main wheel twice. T...
Sunday, 03 August 2008
Speed Astir II B
(Forums / General Discussions)
...efore flight. Take if from one who knows, leaving the tail dolly on makes for an interesting start to the ground roll. Wing skins form the hinge for the wing control surfaces. No mylar needed. My ...
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Movie, "Winged Migration" on STARZ this Sat
(Forums / General Discussions)
...ype landing and breaks his arm. The movie was based on the inital attempt to lead geese to their winter grounds using an ultralight. It worked. Flying with the geese was documented in the film 'C'mo...
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Aerotow rope drogue chute?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
... the desert south west can last about 100 launches, landings are the roughest on it, dragging it over the ground at 60knts or less, we don't drop the rope on landing, but leave it attached to the tug ...
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Jantars are back :)
(Forums / General Discussions)
... if Vne is exceeded during a world record. It would also be very hard to 'prove' since GPS log only shows groundspeed and never airspeed. So part of my post was to say that I suspect he came close t...
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Long Tow Rope Pros & Cons
(Forums / General Discussions)
.... 2. can be easily shortened as the ends fray/wear. 3. more room to turn away from towplane for an on-the-ground aborted takeoff. 4. ? Disadvantages 1. uses 75' more runway length - less room to lan...
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Gliders in the New Dulles NASM
(Forums / General Discussions)
...747 when he went out one night. After a lot a argument the insurance company refused to pay for it on the grounds of his negligence. It turned out that he had left the landing light on when he left th...
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
High tow vs. low tow for rough tows (long)
(Forums / General Discussions)
...s on thrust line of tug- efficient, less trim drag, no trim change. Nobody ever dove a tug pilot into the ground in low tow. Slack is virtually not a factor. Easily and gently corrected. No broken rop...
Monday, 21 July 2008
glider transponder
(Forums / General Discussions)
Also good article in 'Antennas by Jim' by Jim Weir of USA where he mentions to use a 5 1/2 inch disk as ground or other huge multiples. Keep out of line of your main body but legs would be less of a w
Sunday, 13 July 2008
Briegleb 12B - Opinions?
(Forums / General Discussions)
...it's pretty hard to beat gliders like K6's or K8's as entry level 'Sailplanes', these will cover a lot of ground if you fly them like K6's and K8's....a bit slower than some, but they fly very nice, a...
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Soaring in North Dakota
(Forums / General Discussions)
...or seeking out the existing local glider experts instead of just starting up on your own with limited background in gliders. The CAP-SSA MOU encourages just that and I can tell you it's easier and saf...
Friday, 20 June 2008
In 1911 Orville stayed aloft in a glider for nearly 10 minutes, essentially not moving over the same ground, a record which stood for 10 years and probably the first true 'soaring' flight. So I like t
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
Why does PW-5 get no respect?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...ps, it is incredibly easy to rig, with very light wings, and simple to push around, single handed, on the ground. It seems to be competitive in Sports Class and is cutting edge in PW-5 National and Wo...
Saturday, 14 June 2008
LS4 Image
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Can anyone point me to a good image of an LS4. I want to use it as a background on my PC, while I build up my hours and dollars to buy one. I've searched the Web to no avail.
Monday, 09 June 2008
On-Star*
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...erstand it, the system here works on a GPS reciever and logger in the vehicle and this transmits data via ground cell telephone systems back to base. The cell phone system has numerous 'spare' channel...
Sunday, 08 June 2008
Flaps and V-Tails of Death
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...aited. By now I had floated down most of the 4000 foot runway and I'm still floating about 1 foot off the ground. What do I do? Musn't dump the flaps or she will drop like a stone, right? Finally got ...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Antenna Inatallation?
(Forums / General Discussions)
I'm going to install an antenna with a ground plane tube on the lower portion (about 24 inches) Question; Is it OK to mount the antenna on the side of my motorhome with only the antenna portion sticki
Saturday, 07 June 2008
ELTs are a joke
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...is broken, then I would pull out as much wire (RG-58) as I could and strip away 24 inches of the outside (grounding) shield. Then get your new antenna as high as possible. The survivor that started th...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
OPINIONS ON AN LS3A
(Forums / General Discussions)
...mance. Better stability in turbulant air. No gel coat. A tailboom which you probably can't break during a groundloop, off field landing, or bounced landing although anything is possible, just not as l...
Sunday, 01 June 2008
Coordinated turning stall and spins
(Forums / General Discussions)
...elayed recovery for 3 seconds) It seems to me that any stall in the final turn will result in hitting the ground before recovery can be completed which bears out what I have always said, teaching peop...
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Soaring magazine
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...om the air in remote areas is not as easy as it might sound. TM..BTDT. Anything the pilot can do on the ground to attract attention significantly increases the chances that you will be found sooner....
Thursday, 22 May 2008
First Post: Hello!
(Forums / General Discussions)
...ever, so I presume it is a current method. The pulley is mounted on a truck, the cable is anchored to the ground at one end and goes round the pulley to the glider. The glider take-off speed is double...
Sunday, 18 May 2008
helicopter towing
(Forums / Pictures)
...by's January, 1930 drop from a dirigible proved that a glider could be used to tender a crewmember to the ground in order to moor the - er - mother ship. Don't know whether being 'dropped' constitutes...
Sunday, 20 April 2008
glue
(Forums / General Discussions)
Ground up exposed SSA conspirators plus eye of newt...
Sunday, 13 April 2008
...actually had value. A two-seater might be able to carry all the equipment it needed to try it without any ground station. Jerry P. of WinPilot once asked about wireless connections to the PCs used i...
Friday, 11 April 2008
SparrowHawk Sailplane
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...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, hang gliding involves a substantial...
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
...winter is never going to end. This week I had a 152 reserved on three different days, just to get off the ground, and was never able to fly because of the wx. Maybe I will come out and sleep in your h...
Friday, 28 March 2008
...ith Woodstock gliders . I'm interested in trying to design a removable motor pod , I'm also interested in ground launch info ( auto launches ) is anyone launching there woodstock by auto tow ? I would...
Friday, 21 March 2008
Glider clubs on public airports (USA)
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...er pilots and/or the Airport Commission. I do know the FBO operator has supported us and he has stood his ground when the county manager found out we were landing on the grass and not the pavement. ...
Monday, 17 March 2008
OT - But Interesting - Sea Gliders
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...ness Innovative Research Program. Ben Jeffrey TITLE: Sea Glider Transport Vehicle TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Ground/Sea Vehicles OBJECTIVE: Design and develop an underwater vehicle that uses buoyancy c...
Saturday, 15 March 2008
Microair Transponders.
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
I've used one. It seems to be fine. I have had a bit of trouble getting the antenna and ground plane correct in my discus 2, but it now is much improved. ATC reports a good consistent reply. Power usa
Monday, 03 March 2008
Winglet analysis
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
I remember reading that someone tried this (might have been Karl Striedeck), and when they got in ground effect during the landing flair they ran out aileron control and could not keep the non-winglet
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Criminal Background Checks for students
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
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
Friday, 15 February 2008
Flying safe
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...posed to transfer to P2's later this month because he didnt want to fly the C130. These old C130As need grounding (as they have after this incident) before they kill another crew. Al...
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
...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 and how far was that relative to the airmas...
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Fathers Day Dog House....
(Forums / General Discussions)
...l oiled machine however and the distraction did keep me from flying at peak form. ('six-zero-niner glider ground' 'go ahead ground' 'the kids are bored, over' 'roger that') But what the hell, I'd neve...
Friday, 08 February 2008
Indicated lift vs True lift (or sink)
(Forums / General Discussions)
... but at least when I was involved in power flying we were constantly computing true airspeed to relate to ground speed. Now as a glider jockey I wonder what is the relationship between indicated (or...
Thursday, 07 February 2008
Disaster over Lake Constance - Air Regs
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...if you had a 'spare' altimeter and were *that* worried then you'd set it to -800 feet or something on the ground....
Sunday, 03 February 2008
Class B accomodations for Soaring
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
...d happen if (assuming your ILS-only reasoning holds) the weather at MSP goes below VFR minimums suddenly (ground fog, for example). What is Minneapolis Approach going to do with all the aircraft in th...
Saturday, 02 February 2008
Glider rating then PPL?
(Forums / Pictures)
...om the CG as opposite to the landing gear of a power plane where the need to clear the propeller from the ground forces to have a higher lever arm prone to break or cause the airplane to go on its nos...
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
...on of the accident area is about 5,500 ft., and the temperature was in the upper 80s. The video shows the groundspeed is 158-174 kt., meaning the equivalent airspeed is about 140-155 KEAS, if there wa...
Monday, 28 January 2008
Cheating Death?
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
There's no such a thing as 'big sink threw me up to the ground' except maybe in mountains or/and wave. If you hit sink strong enough, the worst you'll get is an outlanding. Then, it's just an outlandi
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
CAI 302 auto-shutdown
(Forums / General Discussions)
...olts. As an addendum to this thread, our 302 shuts down after a few seconds if it is switched on on the ground with the airbrakes unlocked. No problem as long as the brakes are closed before power u...
Friday, 18 January 2008
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