Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / December 2009

Does anyone know what the customs code (HS code) is for a retractabl
engine, pylon type motorglider
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tienshanman

The 0912 cycle was pretty quiet because the FAA was too busy mucking
up the 0913 edition. A couple of issues users should be aware of:
(1) The "Restrictive Airspace Name" field in the subject release is
missing the first character for most (if not all) airspace records.

I had a very interesting conversation yesterday with  a very
experienced pilot (older) who has spent a lot of time in some amazing
aircraft starting with the P51 Mustang and going up to jets including
the SR-71 blackbird and as we were looking over my glider we started

Anyone ever hear of a seaplane/amphibious motor-glider?  I wonder if there
is one out there that I have never heard about.
If not, what do you all think about the possibility of creating one?  Would
it be possible to have all of these qualifications in one aircraft?

I am looking for information about the Fibrelam construction technique
used in the Edgley Optimist, especially how the Fibrelam sheets are
joined. Anyone knows if there are any papers published, or if the
designer can be contacted?

The provisional scores for today, Day 3 [30th December 2009] are ready
at www.sssa.org.za or soaringspot whatever takes your fancy. .
If only by force of numbers, the JS1s are starting to dominate the
leader-board.

For anyone interested in attending Region 10 North (in Cherry Valley,
AR) here is a link to our contest website.  The site was built this
week.  More updates to come on this website.
Also, if you are in a club, or soaring group with an email list,

Just got the new SOARING, and I see that there is a flight test of the
304S by the Texas Soaring Association that measures the L/D at 51.  Good
job, TSA.  I hope that TSA is able to continue with these tests --
perhaps the V2cx, ASG-29, or JS-1 next?

Stranger than Fiction file fodder...
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/12/29/homeless_man_charged_with_
stealing_and_crashing_plane_in_maryland/
My condolences to the club...
-T8

Getting scammed!! I find this (ongoing/unfolding) saga of this 27 for
'sale' fairly amusing, some of you may also (or not...)
http://www.gliderguider.net/yaBB/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1261311629/0
-Paul

The "contest corner" is back -- I'll be writing more regularly for
Soaring once again. For all those hard-core fans who can't wait for
the print version, they will be up on my webpage. A new article on MAT
tasking is up now,

I'm a fairly new pilot about to start xc. Has anyone tried the avi8tor
loaded with see you mobile. Is this any better or worse then the
various PDA/logger setups I've seen in other guys gliders. I fly club
ships so need a setup that can easily be transferred between gliders.

I remembered the glider loop in ThomasCrown 1, and asked for the movie.
Santa brought me ThomasCrown 1 & 11
The glider doing the loop in TC1 and the glider doing the barrel roll in
TC11 were remarkably different; but the story lines were similar -

I was wondering if someone out there could answer some questions I
have regarding the use of the Ilec SB-8 and the final glide computer
unit.
Thanks,

As much as we like to complain about our FAA, we are fortunate to be
in the USA and not going through the insanity of soaring in Europe.
 To quote a German friend, "Bureaucrazies are Lifetaking".
 The EASA does not seem to have interest in promoting aviation.