I note that the new Stemme S12 comes 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 <
mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>
I was lucky enough to fly the DuckHawk for 8 hours this weekend - it now
has a very impressive electric flap system. There's no flap handle, 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 so
ration too.
On 5 Jul 2016 7:17 PM, "Mike Borgelt"
wrote:
> Lots of wave in the wake of the fronts from the other day. Strong south
> westerlies combined with the low off the southern NSW coast. See current
> Himawari 8 pix.
>
> Now a question for Matthew Scutter or any o
About -18 years - http://www.akaflieg-braunschweig.de/prototypen/sb13/
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Mark Fisher wrote:
> A great read. How long till we are gliding in Flying wings?
>
>
> On Monday, 11 July 2016, Anthony Smith
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>>
>>
>> For those that read the article
I think) that
> the bell distribution isn't used here??
> M
>
>
> On Tuesday, 12 July 2016, Matthew Scutter
> wrote:
>
>> About -18 years - http://www.akaflieg-braunschweig.de/prototypen/sb13/
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Mark Fisher wrote:
&g
> something that looks like a horten wing?
>
>
> On Tuesday, 12 July 2016, Matthew Scutter
> wrote:
>
>> They're building a new one as well actually -
>> https://akaflieg-karlsruhe.de/project/ak-x/
>> I don't think it uses the proverse yaw like the NA
http://www.x-plane.com/adventures/60_so_thats_how_its_done.html
This article covers well how an attitude indicator does or doesn't work.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Gary Stevenson
wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Nice to see a bit of practical reality (obviously from experience),
> infused into this s
Supposedly in his book (I haven't read it) he plays down any impact his
gliding experience had on the outcome.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Peter (PCS3)
wrote:
> Saw the film "Sully" where he landed a A320 on the Hudson River in New
> York.
> No mention of him being a gliding instructor. :-
Just don't forget it's a drama not a documentary.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/12/sully-clint-eastwood-hudson-river-plane-crash-ntsb
http://qz.com/778011/sully-ntsb-investigators-are-not-happy-about-being-made-the-villains-in-clint-eastwoods-film-starring-tom-hanks-as-chesley-sully-su
The glider Ron is referring to, is the GP14 Velo http://www.gpgliders.com/
, which is still under construction as far as I know, and nothing to do
with the Diana 2.
The Diana 2 is type certified, as of last year.
https://www.easa.europa.eu/system/files/dfu/TCDS_A_451_SZD-56_Diana_issue_02.pdf
The
I think what Mike was referring to was not the drag of the blades in
gliding flight but the efficiency of the nose-mounted propellor in climb.
Reliability through simplicity is definitely a factor, but the FES is not
much good if you want to self-launch (prop clearance).
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:
I don't understand why the ASG32 EL can't self launch - the quoted 2m/s is
a better climb rate than many self launchers.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:23 PM, DMcD wrote:
> Didn't I read in Bernard Eckey's recent ad in Soaring Australia that
> electric SLGs did not work and that Schleicher's had deci
I think the answer as to why the drag is seen as acceptable, is the
perceived (real or not) ability to safely continue soaring almost down to
ground level, offsetting the (measured) 1-2 LD points loss on glide.
I can imagine a lot more extremely marginal final glides, ridge soaring
treelines, fligh
Thanks Tom and the several others who wrote privately - I will go ahead
with the YouTube series.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:55 PM, wrote:
> A youtube series would definitely be a good idea. I'm fascinated and very
> interested over all, but don't think I would currently be getting my
> money's wo
Microair sold me a brand new Microair 760 a little under a year ago so I
certainly hope they're still supporting products they're actively selling,
as it allegedly has a 2 year warranty.
off topic below:
Perhaps Mark is just a latent supporter of language reform. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En
const auto loading_factor = sqrt(GetTotalMass() / reference_mass);
const auto inv_bugs = 1. / bugs;
polar.a = inv_bugs * ideal_polar.a / loading_factor;
polar.b = inv_bugs * ideal_polar.b;
polar.c = inv_bugs * ideal_polar.c * loading_factor;
Stolen from XCSoar source code. Assumes the u
http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12468
Fascinating study in Nature which documents how frigatebirds are able to
cross oceans without flapping, using thermals over water, while asleep.
Amazingly they manage to thermal with only one eye open and one brain
hemisphere asleep, which suggests there
As requested by a number of people on this list, I've put together a video
which details how to interpret a weather forecast, and set a task
accordingly using a checklist.
It's aimed at novices, and even if you're not a https://skysight.io/ user
the concepts should be applicable to your product of
any energy.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Mark Newton wrote:
> On 1 Nov 2016, at 5:31 PM, Matthew Scutter
> wrote:
>
> If people find the first episode valuable, I'll continue with more
> advanced topics.
> Direct queries/suggestions/requests to matt...@skysight.io.
&g
JS2 seems to have become the JS1 self launcher, they give it away in their
early promo material / website URL's
I.e. http://www.jonkersailplanes.co.za/js2selflaun.htm
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Mike Borgelt <
mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote:
> Thanks Richard,
>
> Here's another link
Australia is one of the easiest places to get an experimental aircraft
registered (believe it or not)
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Mike Borgelt <
mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote:
> I see one of the JS 3s at least has Australian registration.
>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> At 08:03 PM 12/30/
You can probably deduce where the glider came from then. They don't care at
comps.
On 8 Jan 2017 12:14 PM, "Derek Ruddock" wrote:
> I noticed the pilot name on Matthew Scutter’s trace is Leigh Wells.
>
> Good job it’s not being used for badge flights J
>
> ___
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Mike Borgelt <
mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote:
> Is it somehow easier to upload to Fakebook than to a reserved page on the
> WGC website?
>
Yes.
(https://www.facebook.com/MatthewScuttersGliding/)
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I'm baffled as to how many people are often 'needed' to run an operation.
Most clubs I've visited still have one if not TWO people required to sit on
the ground and log the takeoffs and landings for the whole day.
Trivially avoidable by either having pilots record their own takeoff and
landing time
It was indeed a bit out of the ordinary, I wanted to do a big out and
return, then jump on the sea breeze convergence coming from Sydney as the
thermals died and do some big distance down past Canberra and back. It'd
already started falling apart around Bathurst but I found a bit of a storm
outflow
Regarding the competition pilot vs. non-competition pilot debate, I don't
think I've met a junior that hasn't been, or doesn't want to go to
Joeyglide. Perhaps in the broader population competition pilots are under
represented, but amongst younger pilots (fresh blood) it seems to swing the
other wa
I found it thoroughly entertaining being required to do a site check, in
order to fly my own glider, despite having just flown myself into that site
in a powered aircraft.
I was for a while a member of Ziggy and Marta's 'Just Soaring' club while I
was doing the competition circuit without a real b
>The GPL, as I understand it, is now supposed to allow glider pilots to fly
overseas (BUT not in Australia). Just out of interest, has anyone actually
done that yet?
Yes, I have an FAA licence issued on the back of my GPL. It wasn't too
painful, except for having to pickup the FAA licence in perso
The GPL exists and it is real. You can get one right now. It's a lot of
expensive CASA paperwork (I do begrudge the GFA for a few odd things, but
they do an excellent job shielding us from CASA paperwork).
Though there seems to be a widespread misunderstanding that having a
licence means you can ju
how would one go about it?
Cheers
Bernard
On 6 Feb 2017, at 4:36 pm, Matthew Scutter wrote:
The GPL exists and it is real. You can get one right now. It's a lot of
expensive CASA paperwork (I do begrudge the GFA for a few odd things, but
they do an excellent job shielding us from CASA pap
That was my interpretation too, and I'm still not clear on why we made all
the foreign pilots attending the WGC in benalla join the GFA to operate
their foreign registered aircraft with their foreign licences. I appreciate
the process was streamlined but I don't see the legislative requirement
anyw
XCSoar is also available for Android (and not just a beta, it's been on
android for half a decade...)
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Rod Merigan wrote:
> Google play
>
>
>
> *From:* Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] *On
> Behalf Of *Damien Gates
> *Sent:* Sunday, 12
The E-Inks update slowly and are black and white or very near to it.
I now just use my regular android phone as my flight computer. I don't see
the need for a second android device just for my glider.
Sunlight visibility, barring transflective displays (all but dead now) is
mostly about the nits/ca
Length isn't the only variable here. Best just to measure the battery
voltage with a multimeter, then measure the terminals at the LX9000.
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Future Aviation Pty. Ltd. <
ec...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> Good morning all
>
> Today I have a question for the electronic
urchase a self launcher to tour with.
Contact: Matthew Scutter, matt...@skysight.io
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I can't get a handle on who's a knob and who's not
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Laurie Simpkins
wrote:
> I tried to get on and thanks the earlier posts for the links to knobs but
> was too busy having a laugh over what we argue about on this forum. Knobs
> and handles. There may be a pun in
SA is still 'covered' by http://www.users.on.net/~dsg/HG/RASPtable.html (or
https://skysight.io/ :) :) :) )
glidingforecast.on.net needs a total rebuild not just some maintenance to
fix SA. Contact me off-list if you want to help/do it, I'm not the owner or
operator but I seem to be the only one w
If you can find anyone with experience working on XCSoar they can likely
build an old version for you. I will be back in Aus late Nov and may be
able to help then
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Paul Mander wrote:
> Bad luck. Haven't any other ideas. Maybe junk the Altair and run it on a
> table
Nothing like some poor weather to bring out the start proposals!
I like the recent pilot event start proposals.
Background: For your logger to be IGC approved for use in competitions it
must support adding a pilot event - usually a button on the device or
similar. Quite easy on most loggers as per
How about a postal survey?
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Jacques Graells
wrote:
> The problem is not finding a solution to avoid start games and gaggles,
> first we need to convince the pilots that such practices are undesirable.
>
>
>
> Some pilots think that start games and gaggles are an i
Not all 'memory foams' are alike, in fact I am extremely dubious my memory
foam mattress is any different to a regular foam mattress in any regard
other than marketing.
I think it's pretty unlikely the Aldi mattress has the viscoelastic
properties desirable for increasing crashworthiness.
https://
Seems like something the GFA could help with. Can the GFA a large quantity
of CONFOR as to not incur the ridiculous small volume shipping prices, then
onsell to members? It's not like it goes stale if it doesn't all sell at
once.
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Matthew Scutter
wrote:
That's quite a revisionist take. The Mu31 has been under development
since ~2006 (that i know of anyway).
The akafliegs are groups of students in their spare time with donated
materials, not a factory.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Ross McLean wrote:
> And yet the European manufacturers h
This is still for sale. I will be booking freight soon to take it to Europe
with me for the season and may not bring it back, so get in touch if you
don't want to miss out.
Now includes a finished and installed OpenVario (7" XCSoar device in the
panel).
On 8 May 2017 8:42 pm, "
Are they meant to check if you washed your hands after the loo as
well? The contest director is there to run a contest not to be an
airworthiness inspector?
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 9:06 AM James McDowall
wrote:
>
> I wonder if the Narromine Contest Director has checked that no aircraft are
> being
So make a complaint to the GFA then about whoever it is you're concerned
about. Don't conflate sports with airworthiness. Scales are for checking
weight relative to handicap, not some mobile enforcement arm of CASA.
Competition directors have enough to worry about already.
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, 10:1
The QLD forecast for this morning died with a very unhelpful error.
The daily forecasts are setup such that the failure of one forecast
cascades into all the others.
This is obviously not desirable and should be fixed at some point.
I have restarted tonights forecasts, let's hope they fare better.
/12/2015 7:34 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote:
> >>
> >> 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 bett
And a link to aforementioned page -
https://www.facebook.com/MatthewScuttersGliding/
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Matthew Scutter
wrote:
> Thanks all. Couldn't have done it without the great team on the ground and
> in the air with me. This was our victory, not mine.
>
> S
I have a spare bedroom in a two bedroom apartment at the Executive hideaway
available for the duration of Ozglide due to someone else pulling out at
the last minute.
http://www.executivehideaway.com.au/
It's one of the nicest hotels in Benalla.
Contact me at this email or 0426883141 if you'd like
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 approximately 100 m
altitude. A notable
>It's possible, by changing the finish rules, to reduce the accidents
>relating to low finishes.
Is it? How did you establish this?
> Why not do it?
The rules were changed in response to the recent accidents. We went from a
0ft 3km finish, to a 200-500ft 3km finish. (Keeping in mind 3km is not 3k
FLARM's idea of licensing is for you to produce identical hardware to run
their proprietary software on.[1] There is no standard, open or closed, to
license and implement. This really doesn't have any bearing to the ISO
standards writing process, except in how dissimilar it is.
As for the encrypti
2016 at 3:12 PM, Matthew Scutter
wrote:
> FLARM's idea of licensing is for you to produce identical hardware to run
> their proprietary software on.[1] There is no standard, open or closed, to
> license and implement. This really doesn't have any bearing to the ISO
> standards wri
I saw a Kobo (B&W, but sunlight readable in the same way a book is) for
sale in the latest gliding Australia. XCSoar only.
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 10:35 AM, b_br...@tpg.com.au
wrote:
> Nexus7 still available on ebay.
>
>
> Regs
> Ben
>
> --- Original Message ---
>
> From: "Greg Wilson"
> Sent: A
Not a tablet, but OpenVario is worth checking out.
openvario.org
Still in the fledgling stages. I'm building one, get in touch quick if you
want to double up on parts orders.
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Arie van Spronssen
wrote:
> What are the options if you don't want to go with a 7inch ot
cumulus.
Please contact me at matt...@skysight.io if you have any questions, feature
requests or complaints.
Happy landings,
Matthew Scutter
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for my
> credit card details and that caused me to retreat..
> How secure is your site?
> All the best, Paul Mander
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Matthew Scutter
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I've recently launched my new subscription-based soaring forecast
wrote:
> Can you do Paypal?
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Matthew Scutter <
> yellowplant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>> Thanks for your question.
>> SkySighr never handles your credit card details, it connects you directly
>> to my paymen
Careful what you wish for - from my reading of Dick Smiths qualms with the
current airspace on pprune (no ATC separation of his IFR aircraft with VFR
aircraft in class E), his reforms could be very hostile to gliding.
On 4 May 2016 8:57 AM, wrote:
>
> A while ago we were working with racal on a p
The Duckhawk has a 7.4sqm wing @ 525kg(!), and the Diana 2 a 8.16sqm at
500kg. The Diana at least is renowned for its ability to climb in the weak
conditions.
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Adam Woolley wrote:
> The Diana 2 has an 8.16m.sq wing, so entirely possible that this 'JS1R' is
> only
Stumbled across this today:
https://www.facebook.com/glidingsportofrussia/photos/a.247621048689880.53825.247514375367214/969843049801006/?type=3&theater
http://shop.flavionics.eu/
That's a very cheap single seat trainer aircraft! From my limited research
it seems to be legitimate too.
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