Hi All,
Does anyone know if SFS4 is available from a distributor in Australia ( Or
alternatively downloadable from the net via one of the International
Distributors ).
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you are forced to eat them ;-)
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> I believe this is a minor risk to glider pilots...
>
> The energy required to ignite an epoxy/carbon fibre marix will require
> that the glider hits the ground at about 25,000 kph.
>
Unless you fly one of the many Sailplanes of today that carry 2 stroke
fuel...
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Can anyone fill in the blanks for me on what happened to Glasfluegel.
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d with a few
conflicting opinions on these issues & the last time I flew gliders it was
in a Mosquito with a compass, a camera & a clockwork barograph. The world
was yet to see the Navstar system, let alone Glonass or Galileo ;-)
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P.S So far no-one on the planet has been
Oops...
Got the first clue on the GFA site for FAI issues. Previously got lost in
the FAI full manuals.
RTFM rings in his ears...
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> I have hesitated to reply to your request for information on Glasflugel;
> there must be some others with far greater knowledge.
> The Streifener home page contains a brief description. It can be found at
> http://www.streifly.de/home-eng.html
> While in Germany with Bruce, Jonathan Shand and To
Amazing what some spare cash can achieve ;-)
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/05/09/new.zealand.balloon.ap/index.html
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> Well, I guess they generally do want to drive them in a straight line
> - except for any odd issues with the unexpected appearance of
> container vessels...
>
Heh, heh, heh Now that image deserves a berth in the next
Willis/Schwartznegger/Bond movie ;-)
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> For those interested in the weather conditions at Cooma today (just 10km S
> of Bunyan), see the Cooma AWS data
>
> http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN65092/IDN65092.94921.shtml
>
Hi All,
Jason, how do you access a weather summary page for an airport?
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Scrap last request, I was looking under aviation. Queensland doesn't supply
a 72hr history, just a current text report :-(
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surface dew point depression
but I believe that soarcast is doing the lifted condensation level
calculation.
The other alternative is to parse the local image file, messy...
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ital Atmosphere is
another interesting program as it allows you to generate traces using data
from multiple sonde sites, the downside is that it quite complex to use,
albeit powerful once you get the hang of it.
http://www.led.com.au/Weather.html
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urphy ensuring that you don't get
it too easy )
I don't know what the met's future plans are but I suppose that as with
most things Government it is sitting on a long list of things to spend money
on. A friend of mine installed the local Cossar Radar here in Mackay in the
late 50&#
>
> I also note with interest that BOM are building a new Taj Mahal, err,
> corporate HQ, in Melbourne. There seems to be no expense spared on the
> place, if the specifications are anything to go by. Maybe a diversion of
> funds toward their web presence would be appropriate ...
>
As an emplo
Hi All,
Does anyone know of a way of converting .wp3 files to map files for GPS_log
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What a conundrum...
Whets worse? The gliding stops me drinking or the drinking stops me
gliding. Time for a beer and a think about it ...
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> Hope you enjoy it :)
>
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> Bill Gates tragically died in a car accident. Arriving
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Do you have a url for this specific task close at hand, haven't trawled NOAA for
a while.
For a while we were using the data from UWYO massaged & imported into Soarcast &
were seeing reasonable correlation with reality. Started to play with the
prediction models but they were pretty
No electric socks either...
Heck of a lot of fun this Condor simulator.
Never flown in wave before but if the model used in the simulator is anything
close I can see the attraction.
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Interesting techie article on Antares and their linux based electric drive
system.
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> I think what you are saying Mark is that we need a Government owned
telecommunications monopoly, where the uneconomic areas are funded out
of general revenue (yours and my taxes). Maybe you are right, but I
don't see ANY government buying back into that scenario.
i.e. taxpayer dollars ( whi
A couple of comments were of interest of late on telco related forums:
The proposed 3G system WCDMA is a more common standard than CDMA with EVDO, on
the 800Mhz band its coverage is to be "respectable" ie bit less than CDMA, far
better than GSM.
As they need the 800Mhz band this is also
My earlier comments about the economics of country Australia
telecommunications are doubly-relevent to mobile telephony. Customers
in cities have largely ignored it, and GSM has continued to grow
while CDMA has languished. So Telstra has this fancy new CDMA network
where the only customers ar
Not so Mark, 3G is a CDMA based system, so it will be possible to
achieve good coverage in rural areas with very large cells.
It won't have the cell size restriction of GSM.
No, 3G is a marketing term given to a group of technologies which
overlay services over relatively high-bandwidth mobi
3G is indeed a CDMA system. WCDMA in fact & is totally different to GSM
( & CDMA ;-)
Not that it really matters much soon as the phones will be what is termed a
"Software defined Radio" that is, as long as it can receive the particular band
in use with sufficient bandwidth the whole modulat
stuart smith wrote:
Scott, this is not entirely true, Telstra in the alpine regions have
modified the system to use 2 time slices and now get about 70km. Its
still not adequate for the bush, but it is possible. Of course, most of
our phones struggle to get enough signal back to a cell 70km awa
Of if you are using Windows, Mac OS X or Linux (running Wine) you can
use Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/ - to view the tracks
(albeit with less information).
Shiny! Just noticed that you can tip it over in Google Earth & look at
elevations too.
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Sorry if this
Older laptops tend to have reduced brightness of the screens, depending on
use. I see quite a few as I recondition and sell them occasionally.
One of the cheaper new laptops would be OK,however I have been seeing
cheaper models fail relatively early, in only 2 years in a couple of cases.
I suspe
Shouldn't that be "Herd them all" ;-)
SGIC dont worry we have heard them all !!
I dare say it was then written off??!!
Spoke to recent South African emigre' the other day who has seen a big
white
bird stomped all over by a female elephant when it landed in a field near
her calf.
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Ian,
If you send some detail I can run you up some on laser engraved adhesive plastic
in various thicknesses & colours et
Mark Newton wrote:
Texler, Michael wrote:
Lego has become less popular too (hard to believe for such an
excellent toy).
Which is a shame, because Lego Mindstorms seems pretty cool. A Lego
brick with a 16 bit microcontroller built-in, connections for various
input and output devices (like sen
Hi All,
Does anyone run Soarcast on winXP?
Just tried installing it and the files menu item is greyed. Last time I used it
was on a win95 laptop. Sounds like a clash with a newer xp dll or ocx file. Any
ideas?
Kev Carmody seems to have dissapeared from the surface of the web wrt to the
pro
> This is rather off-topic. I don’t see how it relates to climate change
> at all.
>
Scientists predict that with climate change there will increased warming and as
a consequence more mossies, guess he just expects a few to be missing seat
backs ;-)
>
> Greetings all and sundry,
>
> Does
Tom Wilksch wrote:
> Howdy Folks
>
> I am currently heading into my 4th year at uni and am looking at
> designing and building a transportable gliding simulator for training
> and promotional purposes. I understand that this is a fairly massive
> undertaking and also one that my uni does not
Tom Wilksch wrote:
> Be nice if SA got some of it. Had a map in the newspaper yesterday showing
> rainfall this summer. You could take away the borders and still identify
> where SA is on the map. The bit where the rain isn't!
>
> Tom
>
>>
>> What a wet summer.
>>
Would you like some?
Yeste
A while back I got to listen to a spiel from a company looking at adding
hydrous ethanol to diesel. Worked a treat and tests confirmed it on
large mining equipment and trains. Never heard of since ;-)
The argument presented was that the worst place to add ethanol was in
gasoline as it increase
Ultimately about the only people blocked by the filter will be the same
woefully technically inept group that think the &75M will achieve
anything in the first place. Both the kids and the apparent plague of
paedophiles will have no problems in bypassing what will be seen as
little more than a
Finally,
A clear explanation of issues relating to the highly commendable media
releases ( intentional and not ... ) by Mark & Simon...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20081109
Interesting that Australia has achieved such fame from it's
Communication Ministers, first we had "The Wo
other publications too,
but I'm not yet sure when they'll hit prime time.
- mark
On 10/11/2008, at 6:16 AM, Don Ingram wrote:
Finally,
A clear explanation of issues relating to the highly commendable
media releases ( intentional and not ... ) by Mark & Simon...
http://ars.userfriend
Try this for the originating company (Festo), some of their other
projects are way coool too!!
http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11437.htm#id_11437
n 6/04/2011 8:17 AM, Jeff Farrow wrote:
The link seems to be abbreviated
http://www.bild.de/video/clip/hannover-messe/smart-bird-der-robote
rs of magnitude worse than any threat posed by terrorism, and
actually do something about it. Or perhaps deliver functional foreign
policy which tends toward not actually stirring the possum in the first
place. Or just watch Big Brother & Pop Stars and hope it will go away...
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Ozone is an unstable molecule formed in the upper atmosphere by solar UV.
During the polar winters there isn't any solar UV so the ozone gradually
disappears. There are some molecules like chlorine that can catalyse ozone
destruction. They also come out of volcanoes in large quantities. Note
recen
>
If you want a good overview of "the environmental threat" I suggest Bjorn
Lomberg's book "The Skeptical Environmentalist". I read it and bought a
copy. WARNING - it is as dull as ditchwater.
An alternative view to this, I suspect, would be "Boiling Point" by Ross
Gelbspan. Written in 2004, Gelb
Mike Borgelt wrote:
At 03:53 PM 21/03/05 +1100, you wrote:
add me for a skeptics subscription, Mike, its funny how many gliderfolk
are not trusting of the green thrust. I wonder if its due to looking down
on the vast empty countryside so much, as opposed to our streetside coffee
cups in suburbia?
W
tion turn
around when cable breaks and retrieves are taken out of the equation
(assuming that they aren't replaced by something else).
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Emilis Prelgauskas wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:15:34 +1000, Don Ingram wrote:
Sims are cheap to set up
Details please
my pottering around for the appropriate computer grunt and speed,
high end video card, virtual reality headset and a realistic software
set up suggested to me this was far
Anthony Smith wrote:
I do not know how far John Dunkley has progressed recently
http://users.senet.com.au/~dunkleyj/
I had considered plagarising his set up, but using a cockpit from a wrecked
two seater with white contact on the canopy to block the view immediately
upwards (ie restrict the view to
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In a in a previous lifetime I worked for an emergency services
organisation & was amazed the reporting of the incidents that I actually
attended. Earlier in the time, in my opinion, >75% of the time about the
only thing that the incident and the report had in common was the
photograph and frequ
ly they will need tutoring at
the club level to ensure that they are not just reinforcing bad habits.
Besides watching someone trying to do a 500K in Germany at 10pm when
full of beer can be entertaining too...
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Graeme Cant wrote:
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Perhaps the GFA web site would be a good place to make this
accumulated knowledge available.
Could be a good idea, Don. Most of it's on paper at the moment, of
course, and it would need to be typed or scanned into elec
Graeme Cant wrote:
From: Don Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Perhaps the GFA web site would be a good place to make this
accumulated knowledge available.
Could be a good idea, Don. Most of it's on paper at the moment, of
course, and it would need to be typed or scanned into electronic f
As an outsiders quick & admittedly largely uninformed view... But an
opinion from the chattering masses none the less and readily intended to
be torn to shreds ;-)
The primary difference between ADSB & FLARM with respect to sports
aviation seems to be the potentially massive difference in cos
I rather hope that GA & sport aviation won't be screwed -by the ADSB
implementation. Given the ADSB realities as people see them now, what
position should gliding be taking, what should we be arguing and with
what data to back us up?
A brief, but concise opinion... Worse than a camel. Not
http://www.glidingmagazine.com/NewsArticle.asp?id=1422
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If you can see the whites of their eyes, you are too close.
Isn't that the thermal entry technique? Aim for the whites... ;-)
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If you can do maintenance on the glider flying next to you , is that to
close ?. Regards JR Olympia Precision Soaring Team
Quote on Auntie yesterday re traffic density in the middle east. "If you
don't like the music that you are listening to while driving in traffic,
reach into t
If at the end of the day there is far more to the FLARM RF layer and it
is able to reliably handle a large fleet of aircraft during a comp, in
the presence of severe ground borne interference, then I shall have a
feast while eating the above ;-)
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While it is only a tiny sample, it is very positive.
I suggest that to not implement a system because it will encourage bad
scanning habits and stop pilots looking out of the cockpit, is an
incorrect argument. We will never have a situation where all aircraft
are equipped, so a good lookout
It sounds like I'm working for Flarm ... which I am NOT. The big
difference appears to be that the Flarm calculates the likelihood of
converging tracks and alarms if this is the case ... then the unit will
also locate the position of the other target to within 45 degrees or so
as indicated by
Geoff Kidd wrote:
Mark
Double negatives aside how do you rate the double positive
of a warning that DOES occur when you have no idea that the other ship
is aiming for you HEAD-ON.
No technology is going to be perfect and not all ships will ever be
fitted with a suitable unit ..
Mike Borgelt wrote:
At 10:44 AM 5/07/05 +0930, you wrote:
And false negatives are precisely the class of FLARM failure which will
totally fail to be revealed in anecdotal evidence.
- mark
Presumably if you fly with a few friends and all are FLARM equipped and you
stop getting warnings when
I'd rather pay a grand now for a commercially-manufactured FLARM which will
have marginal but increasingly important benefits as take-up increases, and
trust that the commercially astute manufacturer will give me software
upgrades when experience allows us to tweak the algorithms for even better
Carol just pointed out to me that we wear $2000 parachutes that are about
50% effective.
For that matter, spin training seems to be less than 100% effective as is
the whole training system.
Point is that if the inventor of the parachute could be persuaded to
increase the odds of survival befo
Geoff Kidd wrote:
Nigel
Did you see the reply on the other thread from a Pilot in Europe who has
almost every product from Harvey Norman in his cockpit and he reports no
spurious alarms.
Regards
Geoff
On that particular day, with just those particular products, with the
cables in just t
Seen today on the FLARM site...
Don
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:11 amPost subject: No radio
receiption Reply with quote
I had a good number of flights in Switzerland up to now with the FLARM
functioning well. However, on my flight yesterday I had almost never any
target rec
I have had a running discussion with FLARM's Urs Rothacher this
afternoon and he was most helpful with answering some of the concerns
raised earlier.
I shall seek his permission before posting a précis of the exchange
sometime tomorrow.
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Wayne Carter wrote:
If winglets work so well, why are there no tail-lets? AND, when the
future of jet turbine turbo's and self-launchers finally arrives,
(please hurry up, Mike B) will they need to be mounted on a topstick, or
can they be low mounted behind the cockpit, such as the trial Apis u
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