Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / September 2008

Reminder for anyone that may not know annual rules poll and election
for
US Competition Rule Subcommittee is open until 10/8. Pilots on the
ranking list please provide your input.

Lake Tekapo area is beautiful. (Link below.)
Michael
World-record attempt ended sooner than expected when he landed in
Kaikoura on Saturday afternoon when his oxygen supply started to fail.

http://www.aopa.org/feature/loganflood/index.html
The feedback on this article has been voluminous and 100% positive. Please
have a read. And feel free to forward the link... we'll all benefit from
traction on this inside and outside the aviation community.

I am in the process of designing the instrument panel/layout for my
HP-24. Still a ways to go before I will need it, but it is raining out
and my CAD program is running and so is my
imagination..........so.............I was reading about the new Tasman

Martin Gregorie:
Please expand on the handicap system that you use and the gliders allowed
in the Club Class and the Sports Class under this system. Thanks, Sam

OK, I may be digging my own grave with this one (I'm anticipating a
dogpile of worn-out contest volunteers)...
But I have to ask:  Are there any published books or articles on how
to be a CD or how to learn to be a task-setter?  Is it purely an

I purchased a Standard Cirrus with a bent C-Hook. This was bent when
the previous owner was putting the fuselage in the trailer. I ordered
a
new C-Hook from M&H Soaring and they sent me the new gray C-Hook

Kinda cool...
http://www.barnstormers.com/eFLYER/2008/033-eFLYER-FA01-Soaring.html
-Paul

All -
Having never participated in a sailplane competition (yet), I have a
question about competiton length...
Are all "serious" events in the US (even Regionals) 7+ days long?

Please check out my most recent topic"Increase competition participation
by increasing the fun". Your comments are appreciated.
www.5Ugly.blogspot.com

Who out there has stashed away the English  manuals for this vario?
I have the German ones.
This sailplane recently came from Germany with all the instruments on
the panel fully serviced  before shipping to the States.  I know there

Results for Day 1 of the Gauteng Regionals are available at: www.sssa.org.za

I'm hoping that someone on r.a.s. that is an expert in radio antennas and
SWR meters can help me out.  I just brought in a new line of 5/8 wave
antennas, but the manufacturer can't tell me what length to make them.  I
want to cut them for 123.4 MHz so they will work well at ...