White Oak Communications is excited to announce a new addition to the lineup of products from www. GLIDERBOOKS.com that accompany Russell Holtz’s popular Glider Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and Flight Training Manual for Gliders.
Alexander Schleicher Flugzeugbau has published a new Technical Note (TN) concerning the usage of spin ballast with the ASK 21 and ASK 21 Mi. There have been seldom occasions in the past where it took up to three more turns in the spin until it could be recovered. This situation was a result of wrong…
Finally a real nice weekend for pilots in most parts of Europe, Japan and the USA. The weekend-off was definitely NOT a weekend-off for glider pilots. On Saturday 1468 flights were added on the OLC and on Sunday even more; 2381 amongst them 24/24 from Japan and 121/170 from Holland, which is rather special. Germany enjoyed…
The Qualifying Sailplane Grand Prix started yesterday [May 4] in Langtora in Sweden and after a few mostly cancelled practise days due to the weather they continue till May 11. Host is the Stockholm Soaring Club and the CD is well known pilot Ake Pettersson. 20 Pilots were allowed, only 5 showed up / had time, amongst…
Getting the chance to fly dual cross country with an experienced pilot in a real XC machine like an ASH-25 is a rare opportunity, so when I got the call from Kempton Izunoasking if I was available to attempt a XC mission from William Soaring Center to Crater Lake, OR, the only answer possible was,…
The FAI has released a new publication, the 2012 FAI Annual Report, designed to present the most notable achievements, developments, facts and challenges of the past year. It is meant to be a reference book for all those who are interested in air sport…
AERO exhibition at Friedrichshafen (Southern Germany) started today. Helge Zembold will be there tomorrow for Soaring Café, finding out the latest trends and reporting live from the exhibition on our Facebook and Twitter sites with lots of pictures. We are very excited to have Helge join our team and look forward to his Facebook posts…
The first 2013 OLC-League weekend saw 38 participating clubs all across the country, 25 in the Silver- and 13 in the Gold-League. Some of the top flights in the OLC-Gold League were supported by wave over Colorado’s Rockies while the Sil…
On my way by train to Eindhoven, I noticed that last Thursday was a splendid -SPRING- soaring day here, BUT,… yes there was a but, the wind was up to 8 bft. and gusts up to 90 km. A goal flight could have brought a pilot far , but it did not happen […]
I am pleased to announce that the public alpha version of GlidePort web app is available to glider pilots, crews, gliding enthusiasts and spectators world-wide! For general recreational / club flying, GlidePort lets you track gliders in near-real-time, see who’s where on the map. SPOT and inReach satellite tracking devices are currently supported. Free! Register…
