Is your glider gelcoat in fair to poor condition? You don’t want to spend upwards of 25G to refinish the glider. Sanding is a band-aid solution that will improve your gliders’ performance and looks but it is just a reminder that the refinishing process is in the horizon. When is this going to happen? Depends. …
When I started cross-country soaring three years ago, I paid a lot of attention to the many publications that give tips and instructions about how to land out safely in a field. They talk about appropriate patterns, noting slope, surface, obstacles and wind, when to stop soaring and start landing, among many other important things.…
While at the Seniors I was introduced to Hugo Vifian and told by one of his club members that he writes amazingly detailed flight reports. I recently was given a copy of one from his flight with Karl at Seminole and Hugo has allowed it to be shared here. For background, this day was cancelled…
A light-hearted blog on this sunny Sunday morning here in Holland. Even with one hour less sleep, I am in good mood, as the weather for this time of the year is superb; it just makes you feel happy! We changed here in Europe to summer- time this morning at 2 AM , so we…
Having failed miserably in my original attempt to solicit local knowledge input via direct appeal to the Minden crowd and the contest organizers, I have included the entire contents of my September 2013 Minden Nevada Airport review below, updated as appropriate with the most recent Google Earth images. Note that although I reviewed every airport/airstrip…
Squad week in Narromine . Courtesy Mike Codling. Is n’t it great when young pilots love to fly with an ” old guy”.And,…I say that with respect, as I know Ingo ‘s age but it seems he is one of those who stay ” forever young”! He still loves to jump in a glider, after…
Or how to spread the Soaring Bug… This one is not a breaking news story, however sometimes the small things in a glider pilot’s life show that it’s worth the effort! We were surprised to have a foreign guest at our small glider port, but let’s start with the beginning of the story: Last Saturday,…
“Spring, Go South.” KSA members have been saying that for decades. Since well before Jim LeSeuer wrote his article “Distance in the Spring” in the March 1967 Soaring, pilots in Kansas have been watching spring cold fronts pass, watch the weather behind them closely, and occasionally chase one towards the Gulf of Mexico.
This article first appeared in in SoaringNZ Magazine. SoaringNZ is the official journal of Gliding New Zealand (GNZ). It is published quarterly and distributed to all GNZ members.
Cumulus Soaring always has an impressive number and variety of products on display at every SSA convention, and this year was no exception. Their booth is a veritable smorgasbord of soaring goodies—and this makes is hard to focus on just a few, which is all we have time for in a typical interview.
