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Check Out the Oudie

Paul Remde, Cumulus Soaring, provides a nice description of the Oudie on his site–check it out here.  I have been using the Oudie and SeeYou Mobile since last year and find it to be fantastic. I recently received a question asking how I used the Oudie and SeeYou Mobile and here is what I said:…

PowerFLARM is Coming

FLARM technology has been providing collision avoidance for gliders in much of the soaring community for a number of years now.  There is a new PowerFLARM system under development for the US market that will be available in Spring of 2011.  Find out more about FLARM technology and the new PowerFLARM system at: http://powerFlarm.us.

Visit to the DG/LS Factory

During a recent vacation in Europe, my wife Charlotte and I decided to contact the folks who run the DG/LS sailplane factory in Bruchsal, Germany, and arrange a tour.As an LS-8 owner and pilot, I was keen to see how the current generation of LS and DG sailplanes metamorphose from rolls of carbon and fiberglass cloth and pails of resin into the beautiful creations that we glider pilots fawn over and trust our lives to.