Re: [Aus-soaring] Blanik fix (EASA)

2011-04-14 Thread Mike Borgelt
over that is still grounded unless and until this organisation does some further life extension substantiation which will be expensive. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61

Re: [Aus-soaring] The fundementals of gaining new members

2011-04-14 Thread Mike Borgelt
as to be not worth commenting on or thinking about. To be fair, it is no more delusional than what is going on in the upper echelons of the GFA. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428

Re: [Aus-soaring] Music in General

2011-04-15 Thread Mike Borgelt
If you've got music in the cockpit and you actually notice it, you aren't well enough focused. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg

Re: [Aus-soaring] Electric propulsion

2011-04-18 Thread Mike Borgelt
Interesting interview with the owner of Yuneec International: http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2011/110415yuneec_working_on_four-seat_electric_airplane.html Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746

Re: [Aus-soaring] 15% cirrus performance gains

2011-04-19 Thread Mike Borgelt
that the lead glider knows he's lead and responsible for clearing the airspace and checking that the aerodrome stays within reach. Lead may need to change at times. Be sure you have a procedure for this. Unlike what happened last year at Kingaroy with two unplanned outlandings. Mike Borgelt Instruments

Re: [Aus-soaring] Electric propulsion

2011-04-20 Thread Mike Borgelt
, controllers, battery packs and chargers to anyone. Electric certainly works great in models (my foamie F-35 is truly frightening) and seems to be just OK for motorgliders too. Battery pack life will be the key to the economics. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Electric propulsion

2011-04-20 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 10:55 AM 21/04/2011, you wrote: On 21/04/2011, at 8:29 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: Battery pack life will be the key to the economics. Improvements in recent decades has come in the detail control of charge/discharge. Discharge is controlled by the electronics tapering off power output

Re: [Aus-soaring] Schempp-Hirth at AERO

2011-04-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
as the Nimbus 3 at 24.5 M. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Re NZ ASH on youtube.

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Borgelt
oscillations. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Re NZ ASH on youtube.

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Borgelt
this in the first place. Kind regards to all! Bernard Or that's the story and I'm sticking to it. Seems like unnecessarily tickling the tail of the dragon. I think he proved the strength and flexibility a little later in the video. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bonus Jet

2011-05-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
project done in stultified, degenerate cultures like that of Europe to entertain the masses and relive a minute part of the faded glory of Europe's age of exploration and discovery. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax

Re: [Aus-soaring] Why flutter is bad

2011-05-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
slight wear, and then could not reproduce the event at VNE. Roger Browne Which bit fluttered Roger? ASW20s had a bad aileron/flap flutter problem early in their life after they had been in service for a while. IIRC it was caused by the pushrod guides in the wings opening up. Mike Borgelt

Re: [Aus-soaring] Good morning

2011-05-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
Hi Chris, That's great news although I was thinking of going somewhere dryer a week or two ago. Nice weather now though. Allegedly there's a new 95.4 out. I haven't looked yet. Regards Mike At 03:16 PM 6/05/2011, you wrote: No more cold for us Mike. We have sold our property and are

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bonus Jet

2011-05-06 Thread Mike Borgelt
(in advanced civilizations) is fun? Likewise the only use for sailplanes. The change to steam from sail was quite dramatic even with the crummy early marine steam engines. Says heaps about sail. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61

Re: [Aus-soaring] Twin Taurus

2011-05-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
version compares with the petrol engine version. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website

Re: [Aus-soaring] Twin Taurus

2011-05-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 10:33 PM 7/05/2011, you wrote: [] Not quite right there. If you look at the payload of the electro it is only 200Kg, so it is a TWO seat aircraft, not four and any baggage has to fit inside the 200Kg. Cruise speed is 118Kts instead of 200kts. Mike inline: afbb4.png Borgelt

Re: [Aus-soaring] ASH-25J

2011-05-09 Thread Mike Borgelt
what a 600Kg 18M glider will do with two of the same engines. Airborne performance would be increased on the ASH if the engine bay doors closed after the engines were retracted and the pylon was more streamlined. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978

Re: [Aus-soaring] Foka incident

2011-05-15 Thread Mike Borgelt
Lots of lessons in the Foka crash. One big one is how fortunate it was the BGA and there was no second sigmnature on the DI after rigging. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tug tow rope reeling in kit operation

2011-05-16 Thread Mike Borgelt
not sure if a novice would have coped, even the instructor had a job staying in position. Was it not obvious that the rope was jammed ? Why did you not release? Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796

Re: [Aus-soaring] Foka incident

2011-05-16 Thread Mike Borgelt
reduce the risk of a mistake. John Parncutt So Geoff has run the experiment and because the results don't fit your pre/mis conceptions you dismiss the observational evidence. You aren't a climate scientist by any chance are you? Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality

Re: [Aus-soaring] Foka incident

2011-05-16 Thread Mike Borgelt
. followed to colour code all Glasflugel skew bars as a result of this disaster! Chris Runeckles Chris, It happened again at Benalla with a Hornet. Catch up in the next 10 days or so? Will be in Perth this evening. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978

Re: [Aus-soaring] Foka incident

2011-05-16 Thread Mike Borgelt
to defend with the loss of time, stress, worry etc. You might run into a coroner or Public prosectuor who wants to make a name for him or herself and find yourself on a criminal charge. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746

Re: [Aus-soaring] Foka incident

2011-05-16 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:10 AM 17/05/2011, you wrote: Hi Mike; On Tue, 17 May 2011, Mike Borgelt wrote: At 10:16 PM 16/05/2011, you wrote: Hi Ron; A lawsuit like what? You are responding to a mail that hypothesizes that lawsuits are possible. There is no actual lawsuit. Read it again. He didn't say

Re: [Aus-soaring] rigging controls checks (Foka etc)

2011-05-22 Thread MIKE BORGELT
At 02:14 PM 17/05/2011, you wrote: Tim and others My belief is that the requirement to have a second inspection performed and signed for is a consequence of an item in the Civil Aviation Regulations requiring a duplicate inspection if, in the course of maintenance, a control circuit is

Re: [Aus-soaring] Going off the air until mid July

2011-05-24 Thread MIKE BORGELT
At 05:21 PM 24/05/2011, you wrote: you could say the same about oil... Yes. I often put it to the zealots, that nature developed humans with intelligence simply to restore the status quo, ie, to liberate all that carbon and to put it back into the atmosphere :) Cheers Paul It is

Re: [Aus-soaring] rigging controls checks (Foka etc)

2011-05-24 Thread MIKE BORGELT
Bernard, Thanks for that. Did you see any documentary evidence that CASA had written to GFA requesting that change? It sounds a little strange because in the GA world one of the signatories is a LAME and the other can be a PPL holder. So do we need a Form 2 Inspector as one signatory? Can we

Re: [Aus-soaring] iGlide Application

2011-05-29 Thread Mike Borgelt
be hacked to feed external data into say XCSoar running on the phone? Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stalls

2011-05-29 Thread Mike Borgelt
WTF http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/05/28/357321/revised-stall-procedures-centre-on-angle-of-attack-not.html Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stalls

2011-05-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
and the attitude may even have been shown to be slightly nose down relative to the horizon. The crew may have been trying to pull the nose up but to no avail. Mike . Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stalls

2011-05-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
. Any Airbus drivers care to tell us if this is correct? No backup attitude indication at all? Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stalls

2011-05-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 07:55 PM 30/05/2011, you wrote: Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary==_NextPart_000_0096_01CC1EFF.5B554370 Content-Language: en-au There is a backup system and separate display to the PFD's (ISIS) So hopefully when the computers went off line the back up display worked

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stalls

2011-05-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 08:58 PM 30/05/2011, you wrote: On 30/05/2011, at 8:18 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: So hopefully when the computers went off line the back up display worked from the gyros and accelerometers? With the quality of the gyros and accelerometers they would be using the attitude display at least

Re: [Aus-soaring] Mountain High Service Centre on Oz ?

2011-06-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
Ben, It takes a few days extra each way to just send stuff to the manufacturer. Would be less if the Australian Customs mob were just abolished. Wouldn't do any harm and would save heaps of money. Actual travel time is basically 24 hours one way anywhere in the world. Mike At 11:57 AM

Re: [Aus-soaring] PDA/PNA - protrait or landscape?

2011-06-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
Ben, Some PNAs don't support portrait. (my Navig8r 35) Depends on that and personal preference really and also if one particular orientation makes the thing easier to fit in the cockpit. I strongly suggest you DO NOT block the forward and down view either side of the instrument panel.

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stalls

2011-06-08 Thread Mike Borgelt
, all of which appear to need attention. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Fwd: Instrument Pluming checks

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
Airspeed so unless the TAS is reasonably accurate the wind component will be in error. Most glide computers have a facility for correcting the IAS for position error. This should be done. This is not an error due to drift with aging in the instrument. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers

Re: [Aus-soaring] PDA/PNA - portrait or landscape?

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
Instrument panel considerations Put the ASI top left where it ought to be in a six pack. We aren't trying to maintain a level in gliders so the altimeter can go pretty much anywhere convenient. If you are happy to put it top right because of past experience that's fine if it doesn't replace

Re: [Aus-soaring] Cloud flying, Wave flying, Artificial horizons, and such like instruments in gliders

2011-06-14 Thread Mike Borgelt
Cloud flying is permitted in NZ in designated cloud flying areas even in contests IIRC from a couple of years ago. Flying on instruments is a matter of training and practice. We nowadays have wonderful PC based flight simulators (Condor?) for the practice. The old arguments about we don't

Re: [Aus-soaring] Cloud flying, Wave flying, Artificial horizons, and such like instruments in gliders

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Borgelt
- the idea that this gaggle could legally all disappear into the same cloud is genuinely thought-provoking :) Cheers Tim tra dire e fare c'รจ mezzo il mare On 15/06/2011 11:40, Mike Borgelt wrote: Cloud flying is permitted in NZ in designated cloud flying areas even in contests IIRC from

Re: [Aus-soaring] Croatian Times

2011-06-21 Thread Mike Borgelt
I translated the headline online. Apparently the lady's computer turned off. When I saw a komputer reference I though the pilot was saying the computer said I would make it. LOL Mike At 09:50 AM 22/06/2011, you wrote: A picture and a video from this accident

Re: [Aus-soaring] GERMANY'S ELECTRICAL GIANT HAS TOTALLY NEW CONCEPT FOR ELECTRIC PROPULSION FOR MOTOR GLIDERS - FIRST ALREADY FLYING

2011-06-25 Thread Mike Borgelt
Here's the press release: World's first serial hybrid electric aircraft to fly at Le Bourget Munich, Germany, 2011-Jun-20 Siemens AG, Diamond Aircraft and EADS are set to present the world's first aircraft with a serial hybrid electric drive system at the Paris Air Show Le Bourget 2011. The

Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding Australia!

2011-07-01 Thread Mike Borgelt
or be absorbent. In any case a journal that is an official publication of any organisation is bound to have an editorial policy and content reliability similar to that of the old Soviet era Pravda. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l

Re: [Aus-soaring] No Event Fee for Narromine Airport

2011-07-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
Was the event fee $55 for the event or per competitor or what? Mike At 08:59 AM 6/07/2011, you wrote: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_000_0035_01CC3BBA.F9C1DF50 Content-Language: en-au As a resident of Narromine I would like to set the record straight

Re: [Aus-soaring] No Event Fee for Narromine Airport

2011-07-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
-Language: en-au It was for participant/aircraft in an event at Nrm airport. www.vintaglidersaustralia.org.au From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Wednesday, 6 July 2011 9:28 AM To: Discussion of issues

Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding Australia!

2011-07-06 Thread Mike Borgelt
Those who want a printed magazine surely can figure out how to get one if the magazine is delivered to your PC as a pdf. Hint: It's called a printer. You could even print it reduced size if you want or at least the article/s you are interested in and even save money by printing in black

Re: [Aus-soaring] Classifieds

2011-07-06 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 01:28 PM 7/07/2011, you wrote: Also, the moderator of the forum could censor difficult people and postings. D ___ Or even anonymous ones. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746

Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding Australia!

2011-07-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
for the entertainment of tyre kickers). The best way to sell anything is to have more keen buyers which simply isn't going to happen. Sad really. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-Soaring Discussion Activity

2011-07-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
for the efforts of the RAAus and GFA. By any reasonable standard the GFA has failed and lost its reason to exist. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg

Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding Australia!

2011-07-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
more glider pilots in the slightly longer run. If people think that paying for the power lessons is too expensive they need to rethink as to whether they can afford gliding. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l

Re: [Aus-soaring] new trailer rules in QLD

2011-07-08 Thread Mike Borgelt
). As for the rest, you're a funny man, Chris. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] new trailer rules in QLD

2011-07-08 Thread Mike Borgelt
and none of these rules apply. Ah the pitfalls for the bureaucracy in trying to define everything. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg

Re: [Aus-soaring] Blanik

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Borgelt
them into shape. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Self Rig

2011-07-17 Thread Mike Borgelt
person to inspect and sign the DI. Funny how there is a world market for one man rigging devices to make you independent isn't it? And how the selling point used by manufacturers of motorgliders is independence. Still wondering why gliding is going down the drain? Mike Borgelt Instruments

Re: [Aus-soaring] Self Rig

2011-07-17 Thread Mike Borgelt
lift the weight of the wing root. Slightly more complicated but when you see the way that bloke throws the glider bits around, he's a big strong boy and his method may not suit everyone. I've done this without the roller on the stand. Just reasonably slippery carpet. Mike Borgelt Instruments

Re: [Aus-soaring] Motor Glider Noise

2011-07-28 Thread Mike Borgelt
Posted on Thursday 28th July. I'll bet angoodly proportion of the those residents have dogs which bark and annoy their neighbours at all hours. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l

Re: [Aus-soaring] 'A' model gliders and comfort

2011-08-08 Thread Mike Borgelt
pocket. Applies particularly to airline pilots. :-) Mike . Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website

Re: [Aus-soaring] 'A' model glider fuselages

2011-08-09 Thread Mike Borgelt
in the airmass he is flying in, and what to do about it. Someone like Mike Borgelt might like to make comment here, and gaze into the crystal ball! Nope again. I flew our first pressure transducer vario in 1981 and Richard Ball and the Swiss Pirol guys did it some years before. I'd been looking

Re: [Aus-soaring] Ventus 2's

2011-08-16 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 01:43 PM 17/08/2011, you wrote: Another good weak weather glider Ron. ;] Imagine if they pulled 30KG of empty weight out of it. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61

Re: [Aus-soaring] Handicaps

2011-08-17 Thread Mike Borgelt
The handicap generally is the wetware residing in the cockpit. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website

Re: [Aus-soaring] Handicaps

2011-08-18 Thread Mike Borgelt
use the speeds of the people from first down to 90% of the winning score. Then we can all bleat from a position of knowledge. Probably less fun, though. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796

Re: [Aus-soaring] Handicaps

2011-08-18 Thread Mike Borgelt
would seem to show that the Open Class gliders of the day, mainly Nimbus 2s were a bit better than the ASW20 etc. Maybe the feeling that they aren't as good is because of the pilots nowadays? Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61

Re: [Aus-soaring] September Special

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 03:12 PM 30/08/2011, you wrote: That overides the Seniors Card discount I assume?:-) Geez with the age of most glider pilots you'd go broke giving Seniors discounts. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax

Re: [Aus-soaring] GPS vs pressure Altitude

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
, instruments available now. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] September Special

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
. At 08:35 AM 31/08/2011, you wrote: Hi Mike Can you confirm that the B 700 fits into a standard 57 mm panel hole? Thank you Bernard -Original Message- From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt

Re: [Aus-soaring] Media (sigh)

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
talking about ranchers in remote places in the western US. Those guys live out there because they don't like people much and don't much like the invasion of their space. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l

Re: [Aus-soaring] Media (sigh)

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 12:03 PM 31/08/2011, you wrote: Education of the public is the key here. Okay Take a careful look around See any chance of success? Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796

Re: [Aus-soaring] Media (sigh)

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Borgelt
The farmers aren't always the problem. A few more newspaper articles like that and there'll be somebody calling for the banning of gliders being flown near any population areas. Mike At 06:21 PM 31/08/2011, you wrote: One farmer at a time Mike! ;] From: Mike Borgelt mborg

Re: [Aus-soaring] GPS vs pressure altitude.

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Borgelt
), Flarm. Thanks. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] GPS vs pressure altitude.

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Borgelt
. Thanks. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] GPS vs pressure altitude.

2011-09-01 Thread Mike Borgelt
found PAGPS alt on average. Anybody got a flight done to 10,00 or so on a hot day with an EW Microrecorder? That unit uses a Sirfstar GPS module. You can see what pressure sensor and GPS are used by opening the igc file with a text editor. It is in the header on all recent approved FRs. Mike

Re: [Aus-soaring] GPS vs pressure altitude.

2011-09-02 Thread Mike Borgelt
Mart, For airspace infringement purposes pressure altitude should be used as that is how the airspace levels are defined. That seems to be the thrust of the linked article. If you are really good and lucky it will be within about +/-100 feet. Up to +/-200 feet is possible when all error

Re: [Aus-soaring] Another airport conflict

2011-09-04 Thread Mike Borgelt
increasing number of private pilots too. All the figures I've seen show decreasing numbers. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Another airport conflict

2011-09-04 Thread Mike Borgelt
movement and gliders can't move on the ground without cars etc. There are solutions. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Variometer performance improvements

2011-09-04 Thread Mike Borgelt
website www.borgeltinstruments.com about this. Note that the last two problems aren't fixed by mounting the sensor on the fin. In my opinion the horizontal gust problem is the last interesting instrumentation problem in sailplanes. A solution is in sight. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers

Re: [Aus-soaring] Oz Flarm and Altair Pro

2011-09-04 Thread Mike Borgelt
you care to elaborate on this? Private reply if you don't want to go public on it. Regards Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg

Re: [Aus-soaring] Fokas - South Carney

2011-09-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
Hey people, The place was called SOUTH CERNEY That's with an E not an A. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Airspeed indicators

2011-09-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
a Winter. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Airspeed indicators

2011-09-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
. The old PZL ASI for gliders apeeared to be a helicopter ASI. It was a truly great and well built instrument. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email

Re: [Aus-soaring] (no subject)

2011-09-06 Thread Mike Borgelt
I think Dave's PC has been infected by a spambot. Mike At 09:13 AM 7/09/2011, you wrote: Is it only me who gets these ads? I don't need or want them. -- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:02:17 -0700 From: icans...@y7mail.com To: peter.trott...@bigpond.com; rhender...@iinet.net.au;

Re: [Aus-soaring] Used B40

2011-09-06 Thread Mike Borgelt
Ron's B40 has been sold. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Aging Glider Fleet article

2011-09-08 Thread Mike Borgelt
was pretty sensible. Business as usual clearly isn't working. Doing more of it, harder, won't work either. Kind of like the floggings will continue until morale improves. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l

Re: [Aus-soaring] GPS vs Pressure Altitude

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Borgelt
final glide computer. In some B800 configurations you'll get a real time display of how well it glides against the assumed polar on every glide. See the article on www.borgeltinstruments.com Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 ABN: 75532924542

Re: [Aus-soaring] GPS vs Pressure Altitude

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Borgelt
to be specific testing of the characteristics of the GPS receiver though. They aren't all equal, even quite modern ones, unless set up for flight dynamics and 3D navigation full time and no Dead Reckoning. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone

Re: [Aus-soaring] Club and Sports Class Nationals

2011-09-20 Thread Mike Borgelt
Hi Steve, About two more days and they will be shipped. Ready for final checkout now. We're fine. How was your summer? I read on the net it was fairly wet and cool. Regards Mike At 04:44 PM 20/09/2011, you wrote: Hi All, The weather is starting to warm up at Benalla and it has been quite

Re: [Aus-soaring] Club and Sports Class Nationals

2011-09-20 Thread Mike Borgelt
Disregard, Don't know what happened there. Mike Hi Steve, About two more days and they will be shipped. Ready for final checkout now. We're fine. How was your summer? I read on the net it was fairly wet and cool. Regards Mike At 04:44 PM 20/09/2011, you wrote: Hi All, The weather is

Re: [Aus-soaring] New Sporting Code

2011-09-27 Thread Mike Borgelt
___ That was my impression too from reading the IGC meeting discussion papers. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website

Re: [Aus-soaring] September special

2011-09-29 Thread Mike Borgelt
surprised. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] September special

2011-09-29 Thread Mike Borgelt
I should add: We'll be in Sydney this long weekend contactable by email or our mobile. Back on deck Tuesday weather permitting. Leaving shortly, flying ourselves. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61

Re: [Aus-soaring] sorry Guys here is the attachments , been a bit of a hectic day.

2011-10-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
Clearly it was. I'm sure this wasn't mean to go to aus-soaring. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website

Re: [Aus-soaring] Battery Charger

2011-10-16 Thread Mike Borgelt
Ross, The electric model aircraft people have the best chargers. www.hobbyking.com More chargers than you can poke a stick at. These are the intelligent part of the system. A Jaycar 3 or 5 amp 13.8 volt power supply will provide the power part. The nice thing is that they will handle all

Re: [Aus-soaring] Cessna 182P tug

2011-10-23 Thread Mike Borgelt
Pam, Didn't DDSC used to operate a C182? Mike At 10:46 AM 24/10/2011, you wrote: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_000_007C_01CC923A.3EFDF150 Content-Language: en-au Hi Cathy Thank you, I'll chase him up. Pam From:

Re: [Aus-soaring] Cessna 182P tug

2011-10-24 Thread Mike Borgelt
who have so far responded, I'm getting some really useful info, keep it coming. Pam From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Monday, 24 October 2011 12:14 PM To: p...@kurstjens.com; Discussion of issues

Re: [Aus-soaring] Airspace glider issue UK

2011-10-27 Thread Mike Borgelt
Interesting. As in oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die Sounds like the ATC guys saw the glider from the primary return and the glider didn't have a Mode C or Mode S transponder. If he had, the ATC unit would have known his altitude and he would have shown up on the airliner's TCAS which

Re: [Aus-soaring] Airspace glider issue UK

2011-10-30 Thread Mike Borgelt
been lost, clearance denied, despite my receipt and their having had it for 3 hours. So much for SAR also . After rummaging around for a few minutes they found it. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l

Re: [Aus-soaring] multicopter

2011-11-02 Thread Mike Borgelt
This looks like a fun project... http://www.e-volo.com/Home.html Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website

Re: [Aus-soaring] NZ - bit more info

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Borgelt
and be charged for it. If the Mafia did this it would be called a protection racket. Eventually the parasite class will find that the corpse of the productive class doesn't have any more blood in it. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746

Re: [Aus-soaring] NZ - bit more info

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Borgelt
that invented commercial bungee jumping! Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Piggott man powered flight.

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Borgelt
. The mammals are eating the dinosaurs' (NASA) eggs. That multicopter on the other hand has possibilities. Flying Cars! They promised flying cars in the 21st Century! May be the one sensible use of hybrid propulsion in aviation. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Calender of Gliding Events

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Borgelt
. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Calender of Gliding Events

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Borgelt
to Nationals. You could move this process 12 months earlier if necessary to aloow time for annual leave applications etc. A Dark Age is when you not only don't know how to do things but you've forgotten you ever knew. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments

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