Re: [Aus-soaring] Puchatek For Sale

http://www.glidersales.com.au/ :-) PeterS On 24/04/2012 5:58 PM, Chris Bowman wrote: Anyone know of a club requiring a great ab-initio training glider? We've accumulated one more glider than we need and will be rationalising our fleet. Our Puchatek with just 2860 hours is being put on the marke

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Site/accident

On 27/04/2012 1:54 AM, ec...@internode.on.net wrote: The South African based manufacturer has circumvented this process by 'certifying' his glider in Africa. This, of course, is nowhere near as costly, time consuming and rigerous as EASA and FAA certification. Consequently it reduces the cost

[Aus-soaring] Darling Downs weather for the weekend of 28 - 29 April 2012 - updated

Hi folks The updated weekend forecast is at http://the-white-knight-speaks.blogspot.com.au and there has been a significant change - unfortunately for the worse. A mid level low has developed that is moving SE through Queensland bringing a significant rain event

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Site/accident

Hi Mike (and others!) You have hit the nail on the head but I'm not sure whether you are right when you claim that established glider factories would take fewer man hours to bring out a new design. Only few glider pilots do not know that the JS1 fuselage was moulded off an ASH 26. This

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Site/accident

Hi Mike (and others!) You have hit the nail on the head but I'm not sure whether you are right when you claim that established glider factories would take fewer man hours to bring out a new design. Only few glider pilots do not know that the JS1 fuselage was molded of an ASH 26. This wa

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Site/accident

Thanks Mike. Same view as mine, and I was aware of that But you have to "assist with enquiries" if asked to attend at the station as opposed to proactivity. It must be so hard for local police to know how to deal with some of these rarer events. Re the trace, I read a novel recently where the plo

Re: [Aus-soaring] What instruments to put into a new panel?

At 03:33 PM 26/04/2012, you wrote: Hi, Reading the thread regardinf the V1 terminal . They currently have problems with the internal GPS of the unit. Check their website for more details I am currently using a Holux CS61, recommended by Paolo Ventafrida, running LK8000. It works very well, e

Re: [Aus-soaring] NZ CAA crash report & recommendation.

At 04:08 PM 26/04/2012, you wrote: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10801613 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6811188/Massive-turbulence-may-have-hit-glider

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Site/accident

At 04:34 PM 26/04/2012, you wrote: Hi Gary, You said: "If you are particularly observant, you will note that neither Wombat nor I, have mentioned the GFA in this context. Legally they do not have a role. In practice they are generally requested to supply expert advice to the Investigating Au

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Site/accident

At 04:39 PM 26/04/2012, you wrote: I had a similar problem accessing a trace after doing a altitude calibration on a volkslogger. No GPS signal obviously whilst in the calibration chamber. Strepla wouldn't recognise the trace saying that nothing was on the logger. Tried SeeYou and it worked pe

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Site/accident

Regardless of whether data can be retreived from a logger, the information in a situation like this will be almost certainly be worse than useless.  A logger is not a "black box" of any kind. A logger records position and altitude at some interval.  In a Flarm it's probably 4 se