Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / April 2007

This is close to home.  Any details?
DOUGLAS COUNTY - The Sheriff's Office says one person is dead after crashing
what it is now calling a motorized glider.
The crash happened about 5:28 p.m. Sunday near Wolfensberger Road and

1 inch wide gap tape.
Spring special  30 rolls for $40 post paid in the USA.
(That works out to $1 a roll after I pay the postage.)
Not as good as the $6 a roll tape, but very useable.

Coming Soon - EW microRecorder with optional built-in SD Memory Card Reader
This will be a very cool version of the microRecorder - perfect for use at
gliderports that don't have a PC handy.  The microRecorder can read pilot
all the setup and task data from the SD card at power-up ...

A couple of damp glider pilots (bad wx in the ne usa) were having a
discussion over hot americanos this morning.
Do static/probe based TE systems actually measure TE? ... or are they
simply a mechanism to get us an approximation of TE.

I'm trying to have an Ilec TE Probe mounted on my ASW-15. It looks
like one will have to cut a hole behind the rudder to fit the probe
from the backside of the fin. If anyone has any information or better
yet some pictures or drawings on the best way to install this, it

Entry fee increase of $10 to $225.00. Tows have been raised to $53.
All 7 tows and entry fees must be paid before first contest day tow.
If you choose to fly on the practice day, Saturday, June 30th, then
you must be registered and have all fees paid and tows paid before you

I'm replacing my Cobra trailer axle with a new one that uses different
wheels than the original axle , so I'll need three wheels with 14"
diameter, 5" to 6" rim width, and a 112 mm, 5 bolt pattern.
Standard steel wheels would be fine, but I'd like to upgrade to

I have a Labelle in the shop that has had the ailerons refinished without
having been removed from the glider.
Which meant that the surfaces could not have been weighed nor mass balance
checked.  Additionally the

On Thursday April 26th two pilots, Johnny Durand from Australia and
Dustin Martin from AZ, flew 283 miles from Groveland FL to just south
of the South Carolina border.  They had tremendous support from their
driver, Chris Smith of CA, and others back at the flight park to

The BGA instructor qualifications require candidates to have cross
country gliding experience. Is the Silver C satisfactory for all
instructor levels, or do some require more testing cross country
experience.

I just heard that a clubmember of mine just died in an accident in italy
today.
Is there anybody who can give me more information about this accident? I
don't know if he flew a glider, motorglider or ulralight.

On April 19th at 1 AM (yes, 1 in the morning) I was interviewed on WCCO
Radio by Al Malmberg's "World of Aviation" radio show.  We discussed the
upcoming Albert Lea Soaring Contests.
Being the father of young kids - I'm not used to being up at 1 AM, but

Ballast dump times are usually nothing but a reasonable guess so I
decided to measure them. Put a Discus CS wing on the standards
(horizontal) and filled her up. Times are for one wing thus double the
volume for real life and with vent holes as in flight.

Today, Wednesday, April 18th, has been xcelled due to weather. We had
a pilots meeting this morning at 10:30 am, and the daily winners from
the 4 classes, from yesterdy, the first cntest day,  told their
stories. Dave Martin, BV,  who has been contest soaring since about

... works on Terra 720 radios?
Jack Womack