Re: [Aus-soaring] GLIDING INTERNATIONAL - MARCH 2017 ISSUE

2017-02-28 Thread Mike Borgelt
Hard to see what the FAI/IGC can do about falling numbers of glider pilots. FAI is there to keep track of World Records and set competition formulae for various parts of aviation. IGC is the gliding branch. They have absolutely no power at all except for the recognition given them by vario

[Aus-soaring] Fwd: Cambridge 302 issue

2017-02-28 Thread Ian Mc Phee
About 2 or was it 3 years ago there was an issue with garmin GPS 25 engines failing on correct date (it was late November it first occurred and date went to 1996 or 2006) . Later Cambridge 302s had the more modern and much faster garmin GPS 15 xL-W engine and all older 302s that I saw got the more

Re: [Aus-soaring] L2 Update

2017-02-28 Thread James McDowall
At the very least PPL and RAAus cross country pilots should be exempted from oversight by any one to be consistent with those credentials On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Future Aviation Pty. Ltd. < ec...@internode.on.net> wrote: > Hi Richard > > I have just raised the issue with the RTO in my r

Re: [Aus-soaring] GLIDING INTERNATIONAL - MARCH 2017 ISSUE

2017-02-28 Thread Peter Champness
Do you have PayPal? " We regretfully have to assume that the International Gliding Commission or (even the FAI) are not interested in accepting that they have the responsibility of addressing the problem and bringing forth a united world wide program to at least attempting “a fix.”" Are you bein

[Aus-soaring] GLIDING INTERNATIONAL - MARCH 2017 ISSUE

2017-02-28 Thread John Roake
> GLIDING INTERNATIONAL > ISSUE MARCH 2017 > > > The March 2017 issue went in the mail on March 1 and should be with > subscribers within a week. The Digital version was released on the same day. > > Our circulation continues to grow and the March issue breaks new territory > with a fresh look