Re: [Aus-soaring] Nimbus3&4 & Discus & Ventus 2 owners

At 05:08 PM 11/29/2015, you wrote: These gliders all have their aerial in the rudder (fin is carbon fibre) and at the base of rudder is a BNC connector for disconnecting aerial. Regretfully when the rudder is removed & replaced the BNC connection should be fully taped up with self

Re: [Aus-soaring] Wing frequency Procedure

So the state of play may be summed up as: The wing bending frequency test may not detect even quite significant spar damage that is detectable by overt or less obvious means (tap test). It may cause a glider to fail the test where there is no obvious cause and the glider is grounded. Might

Re: [Aus-soaring] Artists required

Yes it is called the "greenhouse effect". The real one that is. The windows (or car body) prevent convection from carrying the heat away. Not so much to do with radiation. Mike At 01:02 PM 12/8/2015, you wrote: Black cars are a couple of degrees hotter than white ones on hot days but not

Re: [Aus-soaring] Off topic, but I know a number of recipients are commercial pilots, so....

Ron, This is just a special case of "is what you are planning to do next a good idea and if so have you adequately prepared for it?" Applies not only to aviation. Yes, I have a longish list of people I knew in aviation who aren't with us any longer because they died in aircraft. Mike

[Aus-soaring] World Junior

If I read the results properly it looks like we have a new World Champion. Congratulations, Matthew Scutter! The rest of the team did quite well too. Might be one of the better overall results ever. Well done, people! Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soa

Re: [Aus-soaring] For the technophiliacs.

I don't have the URL to hand but a private group in northern California quite a few years ago had large model gliders flying autonomously cross country doing out and returns and triangles. IIRC they were doing 50 km or so last time I looked. I know NASA Dryden (now Armstrong) were looking at

Re: [Aus-soaring] Transponders etc.

To clarify, if VFR in Class C you still have to look out. I'm not instrument rated and have no intention of becoming so. Mike > On 3 Jan 2016, at 11:00 AM, Mike Borgelt <mborg...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > The Hawk wingman did a good job. Unalerted see and avoid can

Re: [Aus-soaring] Serial to USB

Alternatively, plug the device in to the USB port, go to settings, system, about, device manager ( Win10) and look at the ports created. Set software you want to use to that port. Mike At 12:47 PM 11/30/2015, you wrote: Hi Bernie Just tried it, my system is Win 7 and it didn't work. All

Re: [Aus-soaring] Serial to USB

read it properly.At 12:23 PM 11/30/2015, you wrote: just to be contra… I have Proflic working perfectly in Win 10, in Parallels on a MAC On 30 Nov 2015, at 12:06 PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: Here's the story: T

Re: [Aus-soaring] Serial to USB

read it properly.At 12:23 PM 11/30/2015, you wrote: just to be contra… I have Proflic working perfectly in Win 10, in Parallels on a MAC On 30 Nov 2015, at 12:06 PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: Here's the story: T

Re: [Aus-soaring] Wing frequency Procedure

I wonder if/how the frequency varies with temperature with glass gliders Mike At 04:18 PM 12/1/2015, you wrote: From the old MOSP 50. Section 3 on Form 2s   3-2-2 (3) Wing Frequency Check All new sailplanes delivered now have stated

Re: [Aus-soaring] Awesome

This is awesome. Play it at 0.25 speed. Still probably 3 - 4 times faster than reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEz03Z8azc Makes playing with sailplanes look tame. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since

Re: [Aus-soaring] phone number

Anyone have a phone number for Bruce Tuncks? Off line please. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784: int+61-42835

Re: [Aus-soaring] Autonomous soaring

At 08:45 PM 2/10/2016, you wrote: First 100km task flown autonomously (and all below 4000ft) A commercial off-the-shelf RnR Products SBXC sailplane was outfitted as a UAV and performed more than 100 test flights of the ALOFT algorithm, with a nominal endurance of 3 min after a winchlaunch to

Re: [Aus-soaring] MID-AIR BREAK-UP ~ ASH25 EB28

All I got was the story in "The Namibian" http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=140771=archive-read I wouldn't be surprised if the white folks in Namibia spoke German and/or Afrikaans. Also found this interesting German accident report on the crash of an Eta while spin testing in 2003

Re: [Aus-soaring] Australian glider canopy manufacturer

His name is Ian Linke. Beyond that I have no details. Try Roger Bond. Mike At 02:05 PM 2/8/2016, you wrote: Hi Jim 6 years ago he worked at University of Adelaide, someone in SA will know him. Regards Michael -- From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On

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

I thought that's what dive brakes were for. Mike At 10:12 AM 3/1/2016, you wrote: There have been quite a few accidents in recent years due to misjudging the approach to landing and undershooting. Clearly if the angle of approach seems too low a pilot will take option B and make an

Re: [Aus-soaring] Comparing accident rates

At 04:35 PM 3/10/2016, you wrote: It is always difficult to compare accidents rates for 'rare' events due to the wide 95% confidence intervals. Somebody should tell Chris Thorpe before he embarrasses himself in print again. (the spin accident stats) Mike Borgelt Instruments - design

Re: [Aus-soaring] safety

worth noting: http://nypost.com/2016/03/09/our-unfounded-obsession-with-safety-is-costing-us-our-freedom/ Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan

-422970/ Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784: int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Austr

Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email Circulation

lves admit on their website they haven't been encrypting for the whole time they have been selling the units. No, I can't be bothered digging it up. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 578

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

Possibly not. The correct metric is per exposure hour. Mike At 09:44 AM 3/4/2016, you wrote: "More people die in comps than during non-competition flying" I do not think you can defend this statement with numbers. Regards Jarek - Original Message - From: "Discussion of issues

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

I doubt you'll find glider crash rates per km. Hours, yes. What is the average speed of a motorcycle on the roads. I'll say 60km/h based on driving a car with a car computer a few times. That gives you around one crash per 1600 hours or so for motorcycles. I guess this is crashes not

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

Making it anywhere from 50 to 80 km/hr isn't going to change things by all that much. Call it a good physics order of magnitude estimate. It is better than that actually. Mike At 11:51 AM 3/4/2016, you wrote: On 4/03/2016 12:07 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: I doubt you'll find glider crash

Re: [Aus-soaring] people send me stuff

edible on this topic? The lack of details regarding sources and methodology make me pretty dubious. What do you think? Teal On 4/03/2016 12:45 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: Anyone else seen this? My giess is English wasn't the language it was originally written in. Mike *Information for all

Re: [Aus-soaring] people send me stuff

PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: If it is who I think it is they are a bunch of very smart guys and I've met one of them. The lab will be a proper facility. If a traffic awareness system is mandated it should be o

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

wonder where they got those numbers from? The first two seem high. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784: int+61-42835 57

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

Yes but how many hours did the GFA report to ATSB that didn't actually happen? In 2009 I got a little card with the statistical return form for the BD-4 to DOT and RD. It had the hours flown by various branches of sport aviation and gliding claimed to have done 160,000 hours in 2008. Really?

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

"Pilliga greens" LOL ! Mike At 03:09 PM 3/4/2016, you wrote: Oh god, the drugs are really kicking in now Richard, these ones are called the Pilliga greens, please stop I think I might split . Justin Sinclair 17 Queen st Scarborough Qld 4020 Mob 0421061811 Hm 07 3885 8949 Sent from

Re: [Aus-soaring] Another tool in your pocket

From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Saturday, March 5, 2016 11:17 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Another tool in your pocket Neat! Your phone will need accelerometers t

Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email Circulation

At 07:45 PM 3/6/2016, you wrote: On 6 Mar 2016, at 2:30 PM, Richard Frawley <rjfraw...@gmail.com> wrote: http://flarm.com/statement-by-flarm-technology-about-recent-unsolicited-emails/

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

brakes 10 km for the Airfield and make an off field landing, as I have suggested? On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: I thought that's what dive brakes were for. Mike At 10:12 AM 3

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

brakes 10 km for the Airfield and make an off field landing, as I have suggested? On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: I thought that's what dive brakes were for. Mike At 10:12 AM 3/1/201

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

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

a damn thing for some seconds to minutes even though they were conscious and functioning because it doesn't go in to long term memory. You don't even have to be injured for this to happen. (I consulted a flying shrink about that one) Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of qua

Re: [Aus-soaring] google's ADS-B push

r system network. From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2016 8:05 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email Circulation Richar

Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email Circulation

ox, and understood less than 10% of the conversation 1 should we be advocating the removal of FLARM in Australian skies 2 do we need to change the Comp rules mandating FLARM JJ Sent from my iPad On 8 Mar 2016, at 8:05 AM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borge

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tablet recommendations?

Hmmm I see the device is no longer advertised by Wingsandwheels, Glider Guider or Vertica Airsports. Mike At 09:50 AM 4/3/2016, you wrote: Sounds like the Glider Guider/V2/Avier device. Mine runs Windows Mobile 6 and runs XCSoar. The screen is highly sunlight readable and has an anti

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tablet recommendations?

Just tested my Telstra 4GX Buzz Android phone ($99) outside in the bright sun. Perfectly readable with brightness turned to max. About a 5" screen. There is a tradeoff between screen size, backlight capability and power consumption. You may be better off with a smaller screen that has more

Re: [Aus-soaring] Glider Registration

Twenty six letters in the alphabet. So 26 x 26 combinations =676. So nearly half the gliders and motor gliders aren't G_ _. There is also at least one powered aircraft with a G registration. IIRC it was a Cessna 182. There may be more. Mike At 08:58 AM 4/24/2016, you wrote: Hi all, I

Re: [Aus-soaring] T as a mandated instrument

nance regs. Maybe we should have a glider endorsement on the RPL or PPL or higher license? Let CASA deal with 2500 individuals and 1200 gliders and motorless gliders instead of ONE organisation, which is meant to represent its members, being a convenient target for a predatory bureaucracy. Mike

Re: [Aus-soaring] Glider Registration

Mark, That is probably highly classified. Back in about 1985 -1986 I remember getting 2 Maintenance releases that were 650 numbers apart, 12 months apart. I queried the bleats from the GFA (I was SAGA Vice president at the time) about how they needed more resources to look after the 900

Re: [Aus-soaring] Fwd: Re: Fun with Form 2 Inspections and paperwork

Seems to me lock wiring the ballast dump system might be an unapproved mod. unless the manufacturer has scheme to do it such as where exactly and how it is done with the correct diameter lockwire,0.025" or 0.032"? We can play the stupid trivia game all day. All for lack of TRUST that a

Re: [Aus-soaring] spinning

voidable risk they do not wish to take, should be COERCED into doing so in order to continue gliding. Think about it. It is no longer a voluntary assumption of risk by an informed, consenting adult. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation sinc

Re: [Aus-soaring] spinning

seater Perkoz has a tail configuration known for good spin recovery characteristics. Mike At 08:14 AM 5/10/2016, you wrote: Mike They are easy to find . Big white airplanes . No engines. Sometimes found in long funny looking trailers Mark On Monday, 9 May 2016, Mike Borgelt

Re: [Aus-soaring] spinning

I thought I was being funny. Sorry I left out the smiley. The original joke goes something like this: Bloke is in a hot air balloon drifting across Canberra when suddenly he is enveloped in fog. After a while he drifts near a building and there's a bloke just inside an open window. The

Re: [Aus-soaring] More on hoverboard

Some more detail on the hoverboard. It has an autostab system and can tolerate one engine out. http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/15/11439798/franky-zapata-racing-jet-powered-flying-hoverboard-interview Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumenta

Re: [Aus-soaring] Russian gliders

Another link to that glider and several others. Looks like they've updated the AC-4 which was in the One class competition and lost to the PW-5, unfortunately. A bunch of AC-4s were sold in the US. I know as we equipped most of them. There was a self launch version also. There's one in NZ.

Re: [Aus-soaring] More on hoverboard

. On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: Some more detail on the hoverboard. It has an autostab system and can tolerate one engine out. <http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/15/11439798/franky-za

Re: [Aus-soaring] Another efficient form of transport!

(now there's an idea Chad) Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784: int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD

Re: [Aus-soaring] Another efficient form of transport!

JhUSu8v2N4 ROSS _ From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2016 1:18 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Anothe

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stitching together small waves to go XC

I've flown in wave in an easterly on the Darling Range from the old Perth Gliding Club field at Byford. Also seen wave clouds over Perth city in a South Easterly when I was a BoM forecaster. I think under the right conditions it ought to be possible to fly from RAAF Pearce or Gingin just

Re: [Aus-soaring] Another efficient form of transport!

gliders were a REALLY BAD idea) (quadcopter with human standing on it) Spectacular, piloted version of drone racing (now there's an idea Chad) Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635

Re: [Aus-soaring] The Golden Age

Here you go Noel. Regulation on registration markings. https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2016C00418/Html/Volume_2#_Toc450031105 Mike At 08:59 PM 5/5/2016, you wrote: Gary. I am becoming aged - turned 70 a few weeks ago. You're right. I've NFI what must be currently be displayed on

Re: [Aus-soaring] spinning

, at 1:06 PM, Mike Borgelt <mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: > Your answer is 100% correct and utterly useless but now I know this is the CASA building. They’re often not 100% correct. - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Au

Re: [Aus-soaring] Windward Performance

Anyone know of any buzz on r.a.s. ? Mike At 01:21 PM 5/4/2016, you wrote: Looks like they have gone under?? On Tuesday, 3 May 2016, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: Yeah, I asked that a couple of weeks ago here. No t

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stitching together small waves to go XC

I'm certain Dick already has a copy. We could do worse than admit we can't manage the regulatory aspect of aviation in this country and simply outsource it to the FAA. They could put on half a dozen extra people in Honolulu and call it the far South West Hawaiian region. Mike haAt

Re: [Aus-soaring] BSE Update now published

FA. If you were a member you would be able to propose changes to BSE and other documents. If you don't like what GFA do that is not GFAs problem. Sean From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Mike Borg

Re: [Aus-soaring] JS1-R

Nothing on the Jonker website or Google search. Lots of JS-1 but they seem to be racing cars or guitars. I can't imagine why anyone would design a new 15M racing class glider nowadays. Mike At 09:38 PM 4/18/2016, you wrote: JS1-Racing Newly developed fuselage 15m racing class

Re: [Aus-soaring] Windward Owl NTSB report

ated airspeed. The pilot was unaware that the "never exceed" speed of 123 knots had been breached during the descent. Jim On 4/18/2016 3:38 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: Jim, When was the incident below and what were they trying to do. Any links to it? Please remember that the Raspett

Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding in Virtual Reality

You can fly gliders for real. Why do it in VR when VR lets you hunt MiG 15s over the Yalu in an F86 or fly with von Richthofen in a Fokker DR1 or Bubi Hartmann in a Bf109? Mike At 03:23 PM 7/12/2016, you wrote: I've tried getting Condor running on my Vive without much success. Seems

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] One generation to the next

Carol and I retrieved Roger from the paddock north of Gawler. We took my trailer as it was in better condition with better fittings. He flew 1003 km IIRC and didn't bother to claim it. Good luck getting him to write an article for the GFA magazine. Like many he wants no more to do with the GFA

Re: [Aus-soaring] Loss of control accidents

quare pattern will [have gone] the way of the Dodo bird." Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784: int

Re: [Aus-soaring] Loss of control accidents

for warplanes like Spitfire etc where forward visibility is limited, this landing pattern allowed pilots to see the runway for the entire pattern. Dennis On 18/07/2016 9:50 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: From latest Aviation Week and Space Technology discussing GA accidents, primarily loss of control aka

Re: [Aus-soaring] SpaceX launch

Next Falcon 9 launch in just over one hour at 2:45PM local Webcast starts at 2:25PM www.spacex/webcast See a spaceship takeoff and land. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635

Re: [Aus-soaring] Loss of control accidents

EAA has been sending around information about this. We'll have to see how it shakes out when the dust settles. I've not lost my cynicism about the cupidity and venality of aviation bureaucrats everywhere. Lately with their R/C model and drone registration, FAA seems to be competing with

Re: [Aus-soaring] Loss of control accidents

Has it occurred to you to ask yourself what the curved approach avoids? What about it might prevent the stall/spin on entry to or during the "well banked turns"? If the US Navy considers it easier to "hit the boat" from a curved approach why their thinking is wrong? Glider approaches aren't

Re: [Aus-soaring] Winter Technical Reading

It appears that the idea is to minimise structural mass where wingspan isn't an issue. Not applicable to span limited contest gliders. No big deal here. The thing isn't tailless - it has two horizontal stabilisers, one on each wing tip. The proverse yaw thing is obvious as the tip section is

Re: [Aus-soaring] (no subject)

with an autopilot. We're very close to autonomous full-scale gliders. Are we going to be allowed to use autopilots in competitions? I look forward to the IGC minutes on this one ;) On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] autopilots, cheating

still have to land your glider successfully. On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: Depends how you define it and what level of help you consider cheating. We already have total energy (automati

Re: [Aus-soaring] autopilots, cheating

) Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784: int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Austr

Re: [Aus-soaring] weather data

every ten minutes and superimpose your task and current position on them? Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784: in

Re: [Aus-soaring] autopilots, cheating, varios, etc

it's just always in the right position. While the computer vision tech to read clouds/terrian is a long way off (in my opinion), I reckon a perfect dolphin soaring computer, responding to the vario could be built pretty easily with current technology. On 5 Jul 2016 7:09 PM,

Re: [Aus-soaring] Another jet glider

Another jet project http://csanders2775.wix.com/turbineschweizer126 2 x 20 Kg thrust engines. Probably could use more thrust I think. Interesting retract mechanism. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments

Re: [Aus-soaring] Oops moment

There was one F-16 driver who ended up ejecting while trying to use his piddle pack. Over northern Iraq before 2003 during no fly operation. Another military career down the tubes. Mike At 08:36 PM 8/16/2016, you wrote: Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

date: > 9 May 2016 > Registered operator: > FLIGHT ONE (SERVICES) PTY LTD 224 Qantas Ave ARCHERFIELD QLD 4108 Australia > Registered operator commencement date: > 9 May 2016 > > From: Mike Borgelt > Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 11:39 PM > To: Discussion of issues relati

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

That was an hour or two after finding one that had been blown over out the back of a hangar a couple of years before. It was still on the register. A Kookaburra BTW. Mike > On 1 Feb 2017, at 9:07 PM, Mike Borgelt <mborg...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > I've pushed a hangar do

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

I've pushed a hangar door open and had pieces of a glider still on the register fall out of the rafters Mike > On 1 Feb 2017, at 9:02 PM, Mark Newton wrote: > > Registration doesn’t expire, so an aircraft stays on the register even if > it’s wrecked in a blown-over

Re: [Aus-soaring] gliding the sport

se people. It must embrace self launching and see any other >> form of launch as ancient history. >> The future of gliding requires the GFA to look into the future and at the >> society around them, and recognise that the club, state association and >> national asso

Re: [Aus-soaring] gliding the sport

istory. >>> The future of gliding requires the GFA to look into the future and at the >>> society around them, and recognise that the club, state association and >>> national association model is dead and re-model the relationship between >>> itself and the glid

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

Isn't a proposed gliding site also meant to be approved by an RTO Ops? Mike > On 30 Jan 2017, at 10:57 AM, Mark Newton wrote: > > Independent ops ratings are issued by club CFIs. > > They require clubs to have training panels and chief flying instructors, > which is

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

it could do, I have not seen a single remediation on that list yet and I > doubt anyone could be bothered > > > > > >> On 30 Jan 2017, at 2:42 pm, Mike Borgelt <mborg...@internode.on.net> wrote: >> >> Once again, many thanks to Simon H

Re: [Aus-soaring] gliding the sport

My iPad sometimes tells me " this message has no content" I'm surprised it didn't in this case. Mike > On 30 Jan 2017, at 2:33 PM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > interesting, but in the end perhaps irrelevant. > > Analysis will show that the base driving interest that was

Re: [Aus-soaring] Positive Advertising

No point in advertising a product that is a turkey. Gliding can be attractive. Gliding in the current GFA system is unattractive to many including those who currently fly other types of aircraft. All you will do if you advertise the current product is increase the already large churn at the

Re: [Aus-soaring] Class 2 Medical Reform CASA - submissions due 30 March 17

Thanks Jo, You are however wrong when you say "This will not directly affect all glider pilots" CASA option 4 Extend the RAMPC so it applies more widely in the sport aviation sector as well. CASA option 5 Develop a new certification standard for the sport and recreational sectors. CASA

Re: [Aus-soaring] To PowerFlarm or not?

The under the panel cover area can get to 80+ deg C. In Australia a long time ago an interior plastics manufacturer was proud of the 85 deg C resistant plastic he was proposing for the interiors of Holdens and Falcons. No good, they had to go to 105 deg C. Rule of thumb for electronics: Mean

Re: [Aus-soaring] TE probe damage - impact on performance

As long as the damage is in the stagnation area probably won't make a lot of difference but side gusts and sideslip will take it out of that area. Probes work by laminar flow separation. If you trip the flow to turbulent the flow changes and the pressure coefficient will change. A

Re: [Aus-soaring] Class 2 Medical Reform CASA - submissions due 30 March 17

According to Australian Flying http://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/aviation-community-goes-quiet-on-medical-feedback They have had as few as 10 submissions so far. Maybe everyone in Australian aviation is just sick of CASA and their obtuse, cloth eared approach to aviation regulation?

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] L2 Independent Ops

. On 14 Feb 2017, at 5:38 PM, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: At 06:12 AM 2/12/2017, you wrote: So the LAW provides that after 40hours of tuition and post solo flying a PPL(A) holder can throw his wife and kids in a p

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] L2 Independent Ops

crash with somewhat less tragic outcome at Beverley a few years before that. How many more of these instructors are lurking in the system? Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 over

Re: [Aus-soaring] L2 Independent Ops

continued existence of instructors like that and despite the formal existence of the instructor panel/RTO/CTO/GFA Board the lack of actual supervision and responsibility of those people. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentat

Re: [Aus-soaring] Randolph thinners

Be very careful with MEK. We had a discussion on MEK and acetone on the BD-4 group some years ago. MEK is about 1000 times the toxicity of acetone which isn't terrific itself. Mike At 08:29 AM 2/10/2017, you wrote: I am newish to Randolph having used stitts poly fibre in the past At about

Re: [Aus-soaring] Randolph thinners

Nope that eye advice is for MEKP (Methyl Ethyl Ketone PEROXIDE) aka polyester or vinylester resin catalyst although you don't want MEKP in your eyes either. Mike . At 09:39 AM 2/10/2017, you wrote: >>MEK is about 1000 times the toxicity of acetone which isn't terrific itself. I saw a

Re: [Aus-soaring] L2 Independent Ops

Interesting little anomaly: Supervised driving hours 40 hours: 16-year-old crash rates 21 percent lower 50 hours: 16-year-old crash rates 15 percent lower Note also this study applies to very young drivers, not older more mature adults. Mike Borgelt Instruments - design & manufac

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That Beverley accident isn't just negligence or poor behaviour on the part of the instructor. In a heirarchical system like the GFA commands come down from on high and responsibility flows upwards. The instructor appears to have been negligent. What about the club instructor panel to whom

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Sorry, there was a word wrong in previous post. That Beverley accident isn't just negligence or poor behaviour on the part of the instructor. In a heirarchical system like the GFA commands come down from on high and responsibility flows upwards. The instructor appears to have been

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] L2 Independent Ops

I'm told that when emergency services attend a road crash involving young people they routinely check the boot for occupants. Some of the restrictions may be counter productive. Yes, a few years ago was talking to a young bloke who was helping out at Aerotec and two hours later he was dead

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] L2 Independent Ops

I suppose you are an instructor? Mike At 01:57 PM 2/11/2017, you wrote: ​So there is an actual evidence to show this, properly corrected for variables that may have also produced this results. Better cars, roads come to mind, I am sure there are others. Are there less accidents

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I'm talking about very poor judgement/ability on the part of the people who are meant to be doing the supervising. Who guards the guardians? Mike At 02:21 PM 2/11/2017, you wrote: On 11 February 2017 at 14:05, Mike Borgelt <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] Instructing/licencing

At 08:14 PM 2/14/2017, you wrote: Firstly that "The GFA" teaches this. It doesn't. Individual instructors do, because they like to be The Boss and control others. In my club I'd say it is a 50/50 split (typically along the lines of those that are still active X/C pilots). Some are pushing

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