My name is Thanos Papantonopoulos and I am from Edessa, Greece. I am a Captain of The Hellenic Air Force (Avionics specialist) and a rookie Glider pilot who just finished his training and solo’s (20). Right now I am in the process of studying to get my theoretical exams in order to get the “green…
Great to hear from you. I’ve followed and enjoyed the Soaring Café for some time now and the iGlide Give-Away was a great reason to sign up for the regular digest… And I won this week’s drawing – what a wonderful surprise, thank you all. I live out west in Colorado and fly when and…
We are pleased to announce this week’s winner and say “Congratulations” to Steve Vihlen! Remember, you must register each week for that current week’s drawing. More about registering can be read here. Below is a nice note from Steve: Hi Bill, Rand and Marc, Wow! what a surprise to find out today that I was…
We have continued to investigate how we can improve our Daily Digest. We have moved the Daily Digest to the MailChimp email server. This change will not require current subscribers to do anything. We were able to import the current list into MailChimp automatically so tomorrow’s Daily Digest will be delivered by MailChimp. Let us know what you think.
Our readers will soon begin to see more and more posts related to the 2012 World Gliding Championships to be held in the in Uvalde, Texas from July 28th through August 19th. The official site can be found here. The Café will have several reporters on the ground as well as incorporating RSS feeds from…
We are upgrading our Daily Digest capability to provide a much better and more reliable Daily Digest email. To implement this change, we need your help. Please take a moment and follow the instructions below. New Feedburner Daily Digest Subscription First, add your email below to subscribe to the new Google Feedburner Daily Digest email…
Today we incorporated a new feature at the Cafe–posts from external sources. From the beginning, we have looked for interesting news on the web and posted excerpts for you to “get a sip” and then provided a link to the full post. We have discovered that we can automate that process! The Soaring Cafe home…
We have been working on the Daily Digest email management. First, you will notice that we have changed the widget in the right sidebar from the subscription widget to a button widget that looks like: When you click this button, it will take you to our Subscription Management page (also shown under the How to…
Our goal is to have the best online site for Soaring related articles on the web. We have had a spectacular first 18 months with over 700 posts created and we work hard on the presentation of the site look and feel, the quality of the content, navigation on the site, daily emails to alert…
Rand and I have had a great convention attending many of the speakers sessions, breakfast and dinners, and spending so much time on the exhibit hall floor looking at all of the new products and talking with friends. It was our intention to provide more reporting in real-time; however, we definitely under estimated the effort…
