[aus-soaring] Weather

Someone recently posted details of a web site that plots the current weather on a Stuve diagram from the BOM radio sondes I've lost the reference. can someone re-post it please -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: [aus-soaring] sharing a thermal

He meant to spell it bummerang... 8) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/02 21:10:27 What is a Bommerang ? You insulta ma aeroplano, I criticala ya spelling :-) -Original Message- From: Graham Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 4 April 2002 6:44

[aus-soaring] LS agent

Does anyone have the name contact details for the LS agent in Austalia -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with unsubscribe aus-soaring in the body of the message * or with help in the body of the message for

Re: [aus-soaring] LS agent

I hope they build gliders faster thatn their web sites. It's been like that for a year or more [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/02 13:12:42 Quoting Derek Ruddock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone have the name contact details for the LS agent in Austalia Derek Their under construction website http

Re: [aus-soaring] Sharing a Thermal

1) keep a good lookout 2) turn in the same direction as everyone else 3) don't hit anyone (which means keeping out of their blindspots) 4) don't do pullups into an occupied thermal 5)if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen Why do you think gliders of differing thermalling speeds will

Re: [aus-soaring] GPS Holder

I've got a new boxed Garmin one if you're interested. Drop me an email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15/01/02 20:29:27 Hi All, Does anybody out there have a plastic holder bracket that suits the Garmin 89 or 90 model gps's that they would be willing to sell me. Cheers Bob

Re: [aus-soaring] IS 28 polar

Thanks Mike 02 8282 1106 Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/12/01 8:44:49 At 09:57 AM 12/12/01 +1100, you wrote: Can anyone out there point me in the direction of a polar for an IS-28? I've got one in my polar collection. It isn't in electronic format so if you give me a fax number I'll send a copy.

[aus-soaring] IS 28 polar

Can anyone out there point me in the direction of a polar for an IS-28? This communication, including any attachments, is confidential and may be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy

Re: [aus-soaring] Aircraft Lease

Not quite what you asked for, but one of our IS28's is for sale... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/12/01 10:23:20 Hi Soarers, we need more aircraft! Expressions of interest please for lease (possible purchase) of :- 1) First solo standard single seater-- something easy to fly with good min cockpit

Re: [aus-soaring] Joeys for Badge Flights?

They wouldn't be acceptable as loggers Dave, but OK as barographs, if you cold get them to work. The lsst time I tried tehm we still couldn't download the data. I think everyones given up on them [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/11/01 16:23:59 Hi, there has been some discussion in our club about Joeys

Re: [aus-soaring] Joeys for Badge Flights?

Dave IS an O/O tee hee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/11/01 19:28:31 If you read the sporting code or ask your club O/O they will be able to tell you. If they cannot they need to do a bit of study!!! Only approved data loggers can be used to claim FAI badge flights, these can be viewed on the FAI

Re: [aus-soaring] An uncomfortable problem

it a vast improvement. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/11/01 18:05:20 From: Derek Ruddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I would suggest is to replace your foam with a high density conforming foam. Clark rubber sells sheets of it: you would have to build up a few layers to the required thickness. It's firm at first

Re: [aus-soaring] An uncomfortable problem

Any decent upholsterer should be able to replace the cushions if you have the originals as a pattern What I would suggest is to replace your foam with a high density conforming foam. Clark rubber sells sheets of it: you would have to build up a few layers to the required thickness. It's firm

Re: [aus-soaring] glider wanted

Hasn't Benalla been advertising a Hornet for months in the AG? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/01 18:43:50 Looking to buy a medium performance standard class glider suitable for early solo, eg AstirCS/77, Hornet, ASW19, LS4, DG100/300 (or a very cheap Discus, hehehe) Tom Jane Gilbert [EMAIL

Re: [aus-soaring] IGC approved Loggers

Look at the FAI web site: http://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss/index.asp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/11/01 9:45:10 Aus Soarers I apologize to all for asking this question again, but I have just recieved the following request for more information on IGC approved loggers for gliding. The request

Re: [aus-soaring] BORING

I got 6.3 on the averager to 7500(ceiling) on Sunday. shot off down to Mittagong (about 50k) back without losing any height. Not bad for a spring day at Camden [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30/10/01 8:54:45 John I think I shall emigrate to the west !!! Love that Cirrus (When it stops raining

RE: [aus-soaring] Iranian sailplanes

Well it sure don't look like a puchatek 8) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/10/01 11:16:22 From: Derek Ruddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's not a copy of a K21, then it's a remarkable example of convergent evolution... The look of nearly every glider since the Standard Cirrus is a remarkable example

Re: [aus-soaring] Indemnity forms

Why don't you use the wording from the GFA form? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19/10/01 10:30:05 I'm interested in getting some examples of the types of indemnity forms that are in use. The kind of thing that says I know it's risky and I promise not to sue. I don't want to open a debate on the value or

[aus-soaring] Astir AD's

The following AD's have appeared on the rec.aviation.soaring usergroup What are the implications, if any, for Australian Aircraft?? === Affected: Kind of aeronautical product: Sailplane Manufacturer: GROB Luft- und Raumfahrt, 86874

Re: [aus-soaring] AOC Training (Sporting Aviation)

This is exactly what we had to go through to renew our club AOC . Interviews of the CFI by CASA prior to him being 'approved', a huge amount of effort rework, before our operations manual was 'approved', a mountain of paperwork etc etc. All this to fly TIF's (sorry AEF's) How are small

Re: [aus-soaring] AOC Training (Sporting Aviation)

it is at present !! What is GFA doing to fight this CASA idiocy ? I take some heart from the Press Release from John Anderson. At least CASA should be talking to GFA. Cheers, John G. - Original Message - From: Derek Ruddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October

Re: [aus-soaring] Data Logger

Take a look at the GFA web site. There are references to a 'Silver C' therein, so even 'The Officials' can't get it right... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/10/01 14:39:08 Just to clear it up the silver badge is, was what I was talking about. Just because the silver badge has for years been referred to

Re: [aus-soaring] DG rep

It's Geoffrey Lumb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/09/01 15:48:34 Does anyone out there know the name and email address of DG representative in Australia. Keith Dixon Keith Dixon and Anne Elliott PO Box 189 Narromine NSW 2821 Phone/fax: 02 6889 1229 -- * You are

Re: [aus-soaring] Re: [CGCLIST] Fw: VIRUS ALERT - W32/Nimda@MM--A Really Mean One

You're beginning to sound like a mac user 8) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/09/01 9:11:47 On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:16:58PM +0930, David Conway wrote: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/20 Yep - With not *one* reported case in the wild. Not one. Ever. Indeed, the original report came from a

Re: [aus-soaring] Excel logbook

I have one at home that you can have. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/09/01 22:42:17 Does anyone have a SIMPLE electronic logbook program written in Microsoft Excel suitable for gliding? The logbooks I've seen on the net are all designed for power flying and I don't have the Excel skills to adapt their

[aus-soaring] Any friendly bears out there?

It's awfully quiet isn't it? -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with unsubscribe aus-soaring in the body of the message * or with help in the body of the message for more information.

RE: [aus-soaring] Bunyan Diamond Mine Open for Business.

However, Glider pilots do not have to pass aviation medicals... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/08/01 10:04:49 What about those that HAVE blacked out at 7000 feet because they are heavy smokers. It begs the question; do you know of a situation where this has happened? Someone who would black out

Re: [aus-soaring] Bunyan Diamond Mine Open for Business.

Bu I can think of someone who claimed that they were so woefully unfit that they were unable to return to Australia by plane. He convinced a gullible Spanish court too 8) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/08/01 11:21:37 On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:34:49AM +0930, Michael Texler wrote: What about those

Re: Fw: [aus-soaring] Pilot Qualifications

It's 1000'. we have a club rule that adds on a 500 foot buffer. Perhaps you club does the same [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/08/01 10:33:00 Maybe the GFA BGK is not definitive information, but it's what us student pilots are given to study from when we join up. I haven't had an MSOP to study from,

Re: [aus-soaring] GPS/Datalogger

Details of FAI approved loggers may be found at http://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss The Colibri is reasonable from what I have seen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19/08/01 11:15:52 We have a pilot in our club who wants to purchase a personal IGC approved datalogger, for badge flights, and a

RE: [aus-soaring] DG202 lands in trees

All the ground crew needs is a bow arrow... Oops missed, oh well it was only a paraglider pilot... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15/08/01 15:55:32 Did you know that many Paraglider pilots carry a roll of Dental floss, so they have something to lower down to a rescue crew to retrieve a real rope!! At

Re: [aus-soaring] changing the subject...

Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15/08/01 18:22:34 Hey Derek, I saw in the latest AG that you had done your Diamond Distance. Congrats. -Cath -- -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with unsubscribe aus-soaring in

RE: [aus-soaring] Australian height records? For 2 seaters....

You could always go up in the DG3000 (see http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/index-e.html (please note the entry date), or one of those dreadful Schweitzer things: the thing like a 3 seater Cessna 172 without an engine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/08/01 13:45:00 No, not any 3 seaters around our way. It's

[aus-soaring] Joyflights/AEF's

On reading Daryl Connell's article in this months comic re passengers in gliders, there seems to be little distinction between joyflights requiring a charter rating AOC, and an AEF requiring a AEI or higher, and no AOC. The only difference I could ascertain was that joyflights had responded to

Re: [aus-soaring] funnies

The controller was probably Gerry. Great bloke. Pity he's left now. He had a most amazing memory for placing names to voices. eg on radio checks. me: Camden ground, glider xyz request radio check on 121.9 Twr: Gday Derek reading you 5 Camden now just gets a rotation of Bankstown controllers

Re: [aus-soaring] funnies

Au contraire mon ami I have heard exactly that on the air at Camden. A tower newbie (presumably on secondment from Bankstown) aske a glider to go around. Reply was something along the lines of erm, I'm a glider. I can't... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/07/01 23:52:01 Heard at Camden, NSW

Re: [aus-soaring] Data loggers

What are you after Cathy? An approved logger or just something to analyze your flight after the event? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/07/01 15:06:53 Hi guys New topic :-) Adelaide University Gliding Club is researching which datalogger to buy. I'd love to hear from people/clubs who have one.

Re: [aus-soaring] Pre-take off checks

We have hobbs meters fitted to our fleet. The scheduled maintenance is by the reading on the meter (which may not be the same as hours in service, but this is catered for in the cumulative hours). Saves having to remember to fill in the book. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/06/01 14:43:37 David, If the

Re: [aus-soaring] ABCD-P (was A320 incident)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/06/01 15:53:08 ... Now obviously this doesn't catch damage to the glider that the ABCD check does, however, the BCD is already covered by the pre-takeoff check CHAOTIC. ... I don't think I'd agree with that statement: the C in ABCD is to check that the controls are

Re: [aus-soaring] ABCD-P (was A320 incident)

CHAOTIC when seated in the aircraft. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/06/01 20:57:49 At 04:42 PM 20/06/01 +1000, Derek Ruddock wrote: Now obviously this doesn't catch damage to the glider that the ABCD check does, however, the BCD is already covered by the pre-takeoff check CHAOTIC. ... I don't think I'd

Re: [aus-soaring] Airspace changes

The Microair radio has this facility . However, I think an ATZ at Caboolture would be a bloody nuisance. We would have to have facilities in all our two seaters to change frequencies from the back seat; can anyone quote on the cost for doing that? PeterS -- * You are subscribed to

[aus-soaring] DROWNING

Sydney had 91 mm of rain on Sunday, and about the same on Saturday. We are selling all our gliders buying canoes 8) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/05/01 9:49:30 Thanks to Scott Lewis for compiling this report: Well, a very pleasant weekend of flying was had by all. Both days were remarkably similar,

Re: [aus-soaring] Computerised club flight log system suitablefor pie-cart operations ?

Actually Jason, the system we use was built specifically to replicate the paper log system, and to enable use at the launch site if required. There would be no problem with using it at the launch site other than the ones we decided were overwhelming, such as security the lack of power. In

RE: [aus-soaring] Computerised club flight log system suitablefor pie-cart operations ?

old paper is as good as anything sometimes. /daveb Derek Ruddock wrote: Actually Jason, the system we use was built specifically to replicate the paper log system, and to enable use at the launch site if required. There would be no problem with using it at the launch site other than the ones we de

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