Season 2013 was special for Aeroklub Postojna, Slovenija because we managed to take a few video clips of our small but beautiful country. Our airfield is situated about 70 kilometers from Julian Alps and 10 kilometers from hill Nanos. That means that there are some interesting views and quite a lot of ridge flying. We…
The FAI Environmental Commission (EnvC) has established the Angelo d’Arrigo Diploma, a new FAI environmental award which aims at recognising and promoting major contributions in the field of environmental and sustainable development, in accordance with the development of a philosophy and a vision of sport aviation that increasingly wants to be respectful of the environment…
The OLC has established itself worldwide as a useful portal for displaying and analyzing cross-country flights. However, there is also criticism against the platform, especially in Germany. A group of ambitious developers has, therefore, started “Skylines”, a portal that comes pretty close to the OLC functionality and offers even more features.
The Aero Club of Poland is very active in promoting the idea of “olympic gliding”. The Polish foundation “Smyki na start” whose main goal is promoting engineering and technology among youngsters together with Aero Club of Poland and Warsaw University of Technology are co-operting in order to convince the organisers of the IWG in Wroclaw…
In this video, Naviter co-founder Andrej Kolar and Roy McMaster, U.S. representative for Naviter, tell us about some new products and services.
Editors’ Note: This article is based on a press release by Guy Cross, announcing publication of the book Wings Over Arabia by Roger Harrison. Mr. Cross is General Manager of Medina Publishing. Wings Over Arabia is the first-hand account of an historic and often dangerous gliding expedition over the wild and desolate deserts, massive dormant…
I’m a glider pilot and the designer of a camera gimbal system for Sebastian Kawa’s Everest gliding event. I think some details of its construction and operation might interest Café readers.
The Minden Soaring Club (MSC) has announced that it will again be offering youth scholarships to encourage youths between the ages of 14 and 21 to help finance flight and ground instruction in preparation for obtaining a private glider rating.
If you’re interested in the German ultralight soaring scene, we strongly recommend Klaus Burkhard’s site. UL-Segelflug.de was launched in early 2013 and already has attracted thousands of readers.
SoaringNV will host a wave camp April 5-9, 2014. The goal of this camp is to train glider pilots to safely and successfully fly in wave conditions. For the experienced wave pilot, the camp is a chance to meet like-minded pilots, mentor glider pilots new to wave flying, and get some time in Minden Wave.…
