RE: [Aus-soaring] Cambridge 302 fix

2005-10-05 Thread Chris Woolley
Ian, Is this a later version than the one you gave me a month ago? Are you aware that Tom Claffey had problems with his version and the beta version (2.5.7) you gave me which I gave him, when attempting to download way points to his 302. It said it downloaded all the points successfully to the

RE: [Aus-soaring] Cambridge 302 fix

2005-10-05 Thread Derek Ruddock
We take our gliders to many airfields during the course of the year. The problem with the Cambridge is that it is not possible to set up turnpoints, nor, more importantly to set the 'Home' airfield on the instrument itself. If this were possible, it would not be a problem, as we could load a standa

[Aus-soaring] Getting and usine the NOAA atmospheric sounding

2005-10-05 Thread Robert Hart
Hi In response to several questions, I have written an article that shows how to obtain and interpret (in a gliding friendly way) the forecast atmospheric soundings available from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The article is at http://www.hart.wattle.id.au/a

[Aus-soaring] What's in the old AG magazines?

2005-10-05 Thread Pete
Well, a lot of useful stuff, as we all know. The news is that there's a searchable index to articles in past issues of AG: http://www.waikerieglidingclub.com.au/ag-contents/ This table-of-contents was made by Ann Woolf, who has been scanning her collection of AG back issues onto CD. While doing