Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / February 2010

Any reports from the Convention?  Jet sailplane on display?  NK vario?
Interesting talks?  Etc.

Many thanks to all the Vendors , Speakers , SSA Staff , Schreveport
Soaring Society folks and other volunteers who made the convention
possible this past week .
It is a unique event in the Gliding World here in the USA and deserves

Has anybody used Clouddancer weatherproof glider covers?
If so, what's your opinion of them?
I'm especially interested in comments about weatherproofing and
durability.

So in planning my vacation time this year (i.e. "Soaring time"), I was
saddened to realize that there's no way I can make the Sports Class
Nats at Parowan. :-(  But I still want to attend a contest in addition
to the Region 8 Regionals...

Ron Lee from Meadow Lake Airport wrote in Pike's Peak Flyer:
January 2009
The SuperUnicom was shut down in early August 2008 due to harmful
interference on the 122.7 MHz fre-quency A grant was submitted and