Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / November 2009

Are there any glider ride operations in Mexico?  Where would a person
look to find the regs concerning soaring there, and what it would take
to do business there?  Someone here must know.
Gary

Very sad to report a mid-air at Crazy Creek Soaring, just after 11
Saturday morning. According to news reports, a Pawnee and glider
collided over the airport. Two fatalities. No names released yet. News
said one pilot was very experienced and lived with his family at

Glider clubs and commercial operators can contact their local TV
stations and newspapers and give them the following link. Suggest they
are invited to visit your operation where you will give them a free
flight. The media is hungry for human interest stories, so it is very

I am looking for some really good, inspirational soaring stories; shor
stories, books, whatever. What's the very best out there
--
tienshanman

Does anyone have any further information on expanding the Pegasus life
limit past 3000 hours?  I know of a couple of gliders that are rapidly
approaching this point, and there must be more in the U.S.  I did not
realize how bad the problem was until a discussion today with some

It's been a while since I've been much of a contributor here, but I've
been around since about 1992, when I took up gliding. No more, though
- my Pirat went off to a new home today and I am now officially an ex
glider pilot ... for the next few years I plan to concentrate on

Check out Central Indiana Soaring Society's web cover for the
Holidays! Any other clubs doing something similar?
http://www.centralindianasoaringsociety.org/

I’ve got two questions for European pilots regarding the Form One,
arising out of curiosity on my part.
First, it appears to this US pilot that one of the uses of a Form One
is to certify that a new part is airworthy, with the basis for

In preparing our clubs tow lines for the season it seems we lost track
of 1/2 of a dual tow set, the small ring. I expect we will have to buy
the complete set but I have no idea where to find them- anyone know?
Thanks all

Anyone have any bright ideas on how to keep the water from freezing?
Salt?
Antifreeze?
Anything?

Kathleen K. Taylor has scanned in all of the issues and they now
available
online at soaringweb.org/Soaring_Index.  30 years of the most
formative

Could not find one on the SSA web site. Is this available anyplace?

I just received word from Drew Associates that the film "The Sun Ship Game"
will be shipping in DVD format on December 14th.  You can see details and
pre-order here:
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/videos.htm#SunShipGame

I am trying to connect a Cambridge GPS-NAV to SeeYou. When I connect
the logger to my laptop (via a USB-Serial bridge  by ATEN), seeyou
finds the logger (in the connection wizzards first screen it appears
in the "Connected to" section at the bottom). When I click next, the