Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 143, Issue 20

2015-08-25 Thread Noel Roediger
Hello Nick. Two friends who suffered from chronic airsickness sought advice from a Harley Street specialist. He said it was generally caused by an imbalance of our inner ears and suggested using a portable disc player providing music in flight. To separate them use only one earpiece. It cured

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 142, Issue 24

2015-07-23 Thread Noel Roediger
Chris. Could you fwd a copy of the article to me directly. Couldn't down load from aus-soaring. Thanks Noel. -Original Message- From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 142, Issue 18

2015-07-15 Thread Noel Roediger
Ian. Firstly, you need to run the wheel through water and note the variation in brake effectiveness. If nothing is noted disassemble the hub and spray Lithium grease onto both the outer surface of the pads and inside of the drum. After reassembling the wheel re-check the brake effectiveness.

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 142, Issue 11

2015-07-09 Thread Noel Roediger
line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Aus-soaring digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Trailer for a long wing Kookaburra (John Orton) 2. Re: Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 142, Issue 10 (Noel Roediger) 3. Re: Trailer for a long wing Kookaburra (Peter Champness

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 142, Issue 10

2015-07-08 Thread Noel Roediger
Derek. If the Stemme trailer is available I'm prepared to take it away to a good and useful home. Noel. -Original Message- From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of aus-soaring-requ...@lists.internode.on.net Sent:

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 141, Issue 18

2015-06-25 Thread Noel Roediger
Great images John. It puzzles me though as it turns into mammatus immediately behind its leading edge. That usually indicates severe turbulence but the wind sock remains nearly dormant. Did you obtain met. details for the day? Uwe Radock did a lot of research re. that system in the fifties and

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 140, Issue 7

2015-05-09 Thread Noel Roediger
On August 2nd 1978 a Maule VH-MSM flown by Beverley with Doug Vanstan and Gordon Wilson as pax. towed me in John Bignall's New LS3 on its delivery flight to Bothwell, TAS. We climbed to 10,000 ft. and tracked so the Maule could reach land via abeam King Island to Wynyard where we refuelled. I'd

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 138, Issue 7

2015-03-10 Thread Noel Roediger
There are several points to consider. All of the large sailplanes will readily spin with the exception of the S10. In general this will occur while thermalling with positive flap selected. When entering a spin in this configuration the first action must be select full reflex flap. Applying

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 135, Issue 5

2014-12-01 Thread Noel Roediger
Mike. There has been a lot of comments made re the Volkslogger. As its agent, can I get mine returned to an IGC acceptable logger or do I just throw it in the bin. You may recall Rob Window and I flew a World Record 300k triangle in ZAX about 1996 at 187kph. We carried an Aerograph barograph -

Re: [aus-soaring] Strange Drinks Was: Canopy cleaning

2002-10-27 Thread Noel Roediger
I lived on Arkaroola for about six months in the mid sixties when it was a working sheep station. Had the use of the shearers kitchen and was showing off my cooking ability to the wife of the owner and needed some lemon essence as it was a vital ingredient to whatever I was preparing. Kath

Re: MildAIR '02 (Was: Re: [aus-soaring] GFA incorporation)

2002-05-12 Thread Noel Roediger
At 08:51 7/5/02 +0930, you wrote: Great photos Simon. What camera did you use? Regards. Noel. At 8:18 PM +0830 6/5/02, Leigh Bunting wrote: Rob Colleen Moore wrote: Some little green men were at the Mildura Airshow , one not so little, they were also promoting gliding in the

Re: [aus-soaring] Pilot licensing: CASA Discussion Paper

2002-04-26 Thread Noel Roediger
needs some SERIOUS thought. The best reason to support an ICAO aligned licence is that it enables us to glide internationally pretty much in the same way as we would visiting another club in Australia. If we are sufficiently competent a check ride is all that's needed to fly solo. Noel Roediger

Re: [aus-soaring] more ES generations

2002-04-08 Thread Noel Roediger
by imported K7's, and contributed greatly to the NGS' held at Gawler through that era. Noel Roediger At 07:57 7/4/02 +0930, you wrote: thanks for everyone's suggestions. The family tree currently looks:- ES31 et al Grunaus forefathers ES 49 Kangaroo