Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / July 2007

I assume some of you are following the Junior Worlds competition in Reiti.
I have found a free demo of "Silent Wings" viewer that can be downloaded
free.
(Google "Silent Wings viewer")  You will also need to download the Italy

A question:  How does Winscore calculate finish altitude on a cylinder
finish?  I assume it is based on the logger's pressure altitude
reading for the closest logger fix after crossing the finish line, but
how is that altitude adjusted for the local altimeter setting?  Does

I guess the title says it all..... can't even do an "intro" flight
because of COG constraints?

I'm planning a panel for a new Ventus, planning to get a Cambridge 302
and a PDA. My question is to what extent also getting a Cambridge 303
(nav display) is worth the panel space and cost.
I recognize that a PDA can provide almost everything the 303 can do

I have two rolls of Dimple tape that were my son's. He was a soaring
pilot and instructor, (also a motored plane instructor, Double I)
killed in a glider accident. If anyone is interested in havig these
never used Dimpletape rolls I will mail them to you for $5 bucks in

Just wondering how similar these two ships are to fly.  Performance
numbers seem to be in the same neighborhood. I've been flying our
club's 1-34 and have gotten comfortable with it. What should I expect
if I were to step into the 2-32?

I've just upgraded from a Garmin 12XL to a GPSmap60csx GPS.  That has
the added functionality of giving the current "Glide Ratio" and "Glide
Ratio to Destination". It seems most new Garmins have this feature,
which is obviously useful for us but does require that waypoint

I'm laying out a panel for a new Ventus, planning to get a Cambridge
302 flight computer. My question is where best to place my mechanical
vario in the panel.
I can either put it in a prominent position next to the 302, or in a

While off topic, my application is soaring related.
Does anyone know of an application that would automatically load and
store web data.
What I'd like to have is the daily unysis data saved so that I could go

How I spent my summer vacation!
By CH
It started out as a week of racing and then a week
of long flights in my venerable Ventus B intermixed

US fans will want to watch the pre-worlds toady at http://www.wgc2008.org/
Rick Walters is in a commanding 200 point lead. (Way to go Rick!) But
the report reads
At windspeeds of 25 to 30 knots and cloudbase at 1300 meters the day

More than six month have now passed without any help for the customer to
solve the problems.
Enough time has passed to give the manufacturer time to support his product
in silence.

The airspeed indicator that I had repaired by The Gyro
House was a Winter, 3 1/4', 510 degree dial and the
face was marked with white, green and red arcs from
the factory (Winter Bordgerate).  If you want to buy

There is a great shortage of professional glider pilots...Towpilots
and flight instructors. Customers and students will pay real money for
your services.
Our business is severely limited by pilots needed.

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Tony V, LS6-b "6N"