Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / May 2006

Is there anyone out there with an aircraft near Penn
State they'd be willing to rent out for a week around
thanksgiving for the right price???
I'm a sensible pilot with a good record and good money

Tomorrow, May 27, I will be at Cannon AFB in the Clovis/Portales Area.
The Thunderbirds will be flying their red, white, & blue lawn darts. A
Dodge VIper will try to outrun and F-16, and there will be a P-51, a
P-40, a B-25, a jet powered truck, and a jet powered GLIDER. My old

This group sees as a recurring post people looking to get more
electrical power.
To go from a 7ah standard gel cell to the same battery with 12 amp hours
would be a 70% increase in power, but the key will be manufacturers who

Can anyone post "the rest of the story" about the AS27 that went into
the trees, yet survived to land somewhat damaged at a later airport?
C'mon, can't post just that and leave us hanging.....

Lots of great stuff happening on the OLC, including the SSA-OLC in the
US. We have had over 600,000 km claimed so far, and the soaring season
is just beginning in most of the US! Sixteen pilots have already posted
flights over 1000km.

The first day reports have started to come in from the U.S. soaring
team competing in the 29th World Gliding Championships in Eskilstuna,
Sweden. See team's Day Reports on the U.S. Team Website at this
http://www.ssa.org/UsTeam/ust_reports_swd.htm

Holy Cow!
I thought the Formula 1 scoring was really neat, until the Moriarty
weather hammered us!
Saturday was windy, and a lot of our top dogs were heading out to the

I just installed Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and
now, I can't get to the flight 'info' window on the
OLC page.  I guess that page is a 'pop-up' and I do
as the screen reads:  Hold down the control key when

SeeYou V3.5 has been released with the Cambridge GPS-NAV Model 10/20/25
fix for OLC claims. If you use the GPS-NAV for OLC claims with SeeYou,
you need to download this new release. SeeYou v2.82 through v3.4 used a
windows DLL to convert the CAI file, and this was not completely

It may be of interest to some to watch the happenings of what is going on
wrt Luke AFB in Arizona and their impression of our holding a contest here
for 6 days that will involve traversing some MOA's.  It seems that their
commander pretty much feels that we really don't belong ...

Well, since I know Dale Kramer, I had been wondering how he was shown
as winning the Sports Class Nationals. See, he's from Canada, so, if
you now check again, the 2006 Sports Class Nationals, you will see who
the new winner is, and congrats to the top 10.

Garmin 327 and Ack350 encoder now for sale for $1,300US
FSG60M Dittel 720 channel Radio $550US

Need a SZD Jantar STD 2 wing tip in good shape, I´m not looking for a
long piece, the last 20cm (8") will do as long it retains the internal
structure and the airfoil contour is in good shape. This is for a
winglet design and I don´t want to cut mine. I´m in Brazil and I´ll

I am trying to find some info about gliding in Sussex from the start up
until the 60's, there were gliders at Shoreham Airport and also Firle and
wondered if anyone has or knows where i could find out anything further,
this is for a project i am involved with at the Shoreham ...

Did anyone else get a letter from AIG underwriting indicating that at
renewal, " policy may have a significant premium increase and / or
change (s) in policy conditions or coverages"?  Letter came from a
Robert Lombardo, underwriter with AIG Tempe AZ.