Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

2016-03-02 Thread Mike Borgelt
Well the Pete Cesco thread turned into a useful discussion on safety. All to the good. I understand the desire to move the finish away from the airfield but making at the ground 3Km out was so obviously stupid I still can't believe it. We've only severely broken two gliders and risked

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

2016-03-02 Thread Mike Borgelt
Mark, Yes. Also I really liked your guest article in the last AOPA magazine. Can you post it here? Mike At 10:42 AM 3/3/2016, you wrote: On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Peter (PCS3) <p...@internode.on.net> wrote: As an L2 instructor, I teach that glider pilots

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

2016-03-02 Thread Future Aviation Pty. Ltd.
Very useful, Mark - thanks for letting us in on your thinking, it makes a lot of sense!! Kind regards Bernard > On 3 Mar 2016, at 11:12 AM, Mark Newton wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Peter (PCS3) >

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

2016-03-02 Thread Peter (PCS3)
On 2/03/2016 3:50 PM, Richard Frawley wrote: come to the comps and find out... NSW states are about to happen there. on the day, it was an appropriate margin as determined by the race stewards. the pilots all agreed by show of hand. seems a responsible approach (opps no pun) to creating the

[Aus-soaring] Mecaplex clearview vent

2016-03-02 Thread Chris Runeckles
Hello all. Does any one have, or links to a Mecaplex flip out clearview vent assembly, I'm looking for just the square perspex insert that fits in the clearview panel Many thanks ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au

[Aus-soaring] New ClearNav vario 3.3 software & MFD PC Simulator

2016-03-02 Thread Ian Mc Phee
New 3.3 software for CN vario should be on the Web site tonight with notes. Also for those with ClearNav multi function display below is link to a PC Simulator which makes it easy learning the MFD http://www.clearnav.net/main/cn-simulator.html Copy Australian maps into the map folder of the

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

2016-03-02 Thread whisson
Yeah, I'm a bit confused by that statement also ... Col Whisson 0459 121 457 On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:32 PM -0800, "Optusnet" wrote: I am laughing so hard I think I just s_at myself Sent from my iPad > On 2 Mar 2016, at 4:54 PM, Matt Gage