Darrell Collins, Historian at the Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, NC, will deliver the 40th Ralph S. Barnaby Lecture on Saturday, October 22, 2011. It will be held in the Visitors Center at the Memorial, and will be part of SOARING100, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Orville Wright’s 19ll flight that lasted 9…
At the 2011 SSA Conference, Paul Remde of Cumulus Soaring demoed the LX 9000 flight computer system, which features a larger screen than its predecessor, the LX 8000 and a vario which displays flight information than can be selected by the pilot. The LX 9000 display will be familiar to users of Naviter’s SeeYou Mobile…
At the SSA Conference in January, 2011, Paul Remde of Cumulus Soaring created a video in which he demos the new LXNav Nano Flight Recorder. This device is the smallest IGC-approved flight recorder on the market and, to my knowledge, the least expensive. With an 11-hour battery life and the low price, this minuscule flight…
Paul Remde provided an excellent review of the latest in soaring instruments at the SSA Conference yesterday. He graciously provided his charts to us for posting at the Cafe. We hope you find them informative. If you have any questions, please contact Paul directly at www.Cumulus-Soaring.com. Soaring product market news by Paul Remde, Cumulus Soaring…
Question : Why should an airplane CFI attend a “glider” related Revalidation Clinic?
There have been recent changes at the company that produces the ClearNav flight computer and variometer. The ClearNav was developed by the Nielsen-Kellerman Company, which was owned in part by soaring pilot Richard Kellerman. Kellerman has now sold his interest in the company. According to NK, “the ClearNav brand has been acquired by founder Richard Kellerman and…
This is a very interesting article which relates to soaring in some interesting ways. Like the Peregrine, soaring pilots need to constantly shift their circles as pulses or bubbles of stronger lift work their way up through the main column. Pilots often wonder why someone several hundred feet above seem to be climbing away from…
The ClearNav Vario – Big news in gliderland! Richard Kellerman has working prototypes of the long awaited vario, a perfect to companion with the ClearNav.! If you have been waiting for this, it will be ready for Christmas deliveries. If you have not thought about it, in the past, ClearNav only worked best for pilots with the…
These are a set of absolute incredible pictures that Chris Ruf found and posted the the GTA Racing group. The photograph is just one image from the portfolio of electrician Sean Heavey. The supercell cloud was photographed in July west of Glasgow, Montana, USA. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1334672/Jaw-dropping-image-enormous-supercell-cloud-Glasgow-Montana.html#ixzz17BJuzlls
Lee Kuhlke, the PowerFLARM distributor for the US has recently confirmed that over 300 units are on order with the various dealers. You can find out more about the US PowerFLARM at http://powerFlarm.us and where to buy at http://powerflarm.us/where-to-buy/.
