[Aus-soaring] Pictorial Placards

2011-08-31 Thread John Hudson
Any one know a supplier of good quality pictorial placards for sailplanes (Trim, U/Carriage, Tow Release, Water Dump, Canopy open / Closed / Jetticson, Rudder Pedal Adjustment, seat adjustment, etc Best wishes John Hudson ___ Aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Pictorial Placards

2011-08-31 Thread Jarek Mosiejewski
The old Geelong Gliding Club website: http://www.gliding-in-melbourne.org/resource.htm Regards Jarek John Hudson hud...@senet.com.au wrote: Any one know a supplier of good quality pictorial placards for sailplanes (Trim, U/Carriage, Tow Release, Water Dump, Canopy open / Closed /

Re: [Aus-soaring] Pictorial Placards

2011-08-31 Thread erich wittstock
Hi John, Mark Fisher taught me: Design your own on the computer, print on overhead sheet on a laser printer. Spray paint printed side with white paint and apply double sided tape - voila! These stickers are even solvent proof; you could even use custom colors... .. Erich On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at

Re: [Aus-soaring] Media (sigh)

2011-08-31 Thread tom claffey
One farmer at a time Mike! ;] From: Mike Borgelt mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com To: tom claffey to...@yahoo.com; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011 2:17 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Aus-soaring] Media (sigh)

2011-08-31 Thread Christopher Mc Donnell
A second refutation posted: Red Baron says... 8:22am Wed 31 Aug 11 (Z) The headline makes it sound as if the pilot was in trouble and crashed. I agree that the glider made a landing in a field, no doubt because the pilot could not find any rising thermals to gain height. Safe and controlled

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

Re: [Aus-soaring] Pictorial Placards

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Moore
John I think you have enough information from others Peter Cesco had some made for our glider from the Geelong Gliding club Web site they are very good. Rob At 04:14 PM 31/08/2011, you wrote: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_000_0034_01CC67F9.054EA6E0

Re: [Aus-soaring] Media (sigh)

2011-08-31 Thread John McFarlane
Well maybe the Qld Pilots ought to team up with the Qld farmers over the desecration of perfectly good out-landing paddocks for CSG efforts - hell they probably would feed you too if you were on their team J From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net

[Aus-soaring] Darling Downs weather for the weekend of 3 - 4 September 2011

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Hart
Hi folks The weekend forecast is available at http://the-white-knight-speaks.blogspot.com and looks quite reasonable. I will update this tomorrow as usual before departing for Melbourne to celebrate the launch of my daughter's first novel (in shops today).

[Aus-soaring] Fw: DG Flugzeugbau - Newsletter No. 155

2011-08-31 Thread Tom Jane Gilbert
-Original Message- From: Friedel Weber Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 2:33 AM To: Tom Jane Gilbert Subject: DG Flugzeugbau - Newsletter No. 155 DG Flugzeugbau - Newsletter No. 155 September 2011 The Article of the Month September: Back to the Roots? - Thoughts about simple

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

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Borgelt
Could someone send me a 3 or 4 igc flight files done during the summer in Australia to good heights (say above 7000 feet) with each of the following Flight Recorders please? CAI302A(not the early model Cambridge loggers), Colibri(late models), Volkslogger,(late models say since 2006),

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

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Borgelt
OK I've got 4 flights done in WA in summer thanks to John Orton all with colibris. Any Volkslogger or Cambridge 302A files? Or Flarms? So far good agreement with my article on the later FRs. Early ones had terrible GPS receivers and/or lots of flitering on the GPS altitude. Mike Could

[Aus-soaring] Alice Springs

2011-08-31 Thread Adam Woolley
G’day All, Does anyone here know for sure, when the most reliable time for weather is in Alice Springs? Thinking of organising a 2 week expedition/adventure there over the next two years, to be held in ~2 years time. SeeYou, WPP FaceBook: Adam Woolley’s Gliding