Some historical data:
http://www.davisstraub.com/Glide/polars.htm
http://buteo.szm.com/work/polar_sim.htm
http://ozreport.com/12.079#1
http://ozreport.com/12.093#0
http://ozreport.com/Ozv12n96.shtml#1
http://ozreport.com/12.233#1
My Wills Wing T2C polar:
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I have used earlier versions of these polars to calculate
handicaps between gliders in sport class.
https://www.willswing.com/polar-data-for-wills-wing-hang-gliders/

A 6% increase in V2 for a Talon puts its 530 fpm sink rate at 50 mph.
Accurate polar data is very difficult to measure. Although we have
made many attempts over the years to... mehr

Some historical data:
http://www.davisstraub.com/Glide/polars.htm
http://buteo.szm.com/work/polar_sim.htm
http://ozreport.com/12.079#1
http://ozreport.com/12.093#0
http://ozreport.com/Ozv12n96.shtml#1
http://ozreport.com/12.233#1
My Wills Wing T2C polar:
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Harry Martin wanted to support the Rainbow Room in Big Spring
through his art work. We had him design a tee-shirt graphic for the competition
pilots that expressed our support for the people of Big Spring, who have done so
much to help us and help hang gliding competition in general. We donated $500 in
his name to our campaign to raise money... mehr

http://hgeu2018.mk/
Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:
2D https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta
livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149
Looks like a better day:

Ploner in the lead.
Quite a race with Ploner out in the lead for almost the entire race but near the
end he kept going and getting down to less than... mehr

http://300peaks.com/index.php/chelan/results/open
Two pilots made it to Idaho on Tuesday. No task set as it was too windy. They
went free flying
http://xcfind.paraglide.us/comp.html?id=126
Donizete Lemos and Mitch Riley


https://vimeo.com/279392781
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Ian Andrew Ahner writes:
Two of the most annoying things that radios can do is make noise
when you don't want them to, and not make noise when you do want them to. This,
too, is something that the cool engineers have found some solutions to.Historically radios used a "level detecting squelch." Basically what this means
is that when... mehr

Harry Martin wanted to support the Rainbow Room in Big Spring
through his art work. We had him design a tee-shirt graphic for the competition
pilots that expressed our support for the people of Big Spring, who have done so
much to help us and help hang gliding competition in general. We donated $500 in
his name to our campaign to raise money... mehr

http://300peaks.com/index.php/chelan/results/open
Two pilots made it to Idaho on Tuesday. No task set as it was too windy. They
went free flying
http://xcfind.paraglide.us/comp.html?id=126
Donizete Lemos and Mitch Riley


https://vimeo.com/279392781
mehr

http://hgeu2018.mk/
Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:
2D https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta
livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149
Looks like a better day:

Ploner in the lead.
Quite a race with Ploner out in the lead for almost the entire race but near the
end he kept going and getting down to less than... mehr

http://hgeu2018.mk/Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:2D https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2391
2D/3D SPLIT beta
https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2391Sasha's photos: http://sashaz.com/portfolio-type/photography/Results: http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res



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It might be here:
https://www.fai.org/news/approved-instruments-list-published-civl-website

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It is not required that you have the latest firmware update to the
Flytec 6030. You also do not to need to switch on the capability to use WGS84.
The standard configuration for the Flytec 6030 is the FAI sphere. We will use the
FS2016 R1.7 scoring program which uses the FAI sphere. mehr

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/july/spiders-electric-fields-.html

Scientists have attributed the flying behaviour of these wingless
arthropods to ‘ballooning’, where spiders can be carried thousands of miles by
releasing trails of silk that propel them up and out on the wind.
However, the fact that ballooning has been observed... mehr

Read much more here:
http://ozreport.com/docs/MickHowardFlightReportsRefugio2018.pdf

Refugio, Texas is just north of Corpus Christi where the early
morning heating combined with the southerly/southeasterly airflow streaming from
the gulf and over the warm waters of Copano Bay creates early morning thermals
and cloud streets extending miles... mehr

Ian Andrew Ahner writes:
The #1 problem that we deal with as pilots is stuck PTT buttons.
Because we shove radios in our gear in tight pinched areas, it is not uncommon
for a radio button to get pressed, and this can completely trash the frequency
for everyone. Turns out, the smart fellas who made these radios thought about
that... mehr

https://mailchi.mp/5c46ff3277c1/cloudbase-foundation-news?e=97f1d44e46


Thank you pilots and donors
Due to the tremendous support since 2010, cumulative donations to Cloudbase
Foundation have surpassed $1,000,000. These funds have been invested in projects
around the world to support communities where we fly.
Big Spring, Texas Project
Each... mehr

There are a few fields that I pay attention to on my Flytec 6030
when I get close enough to goal that I might be able to go on final glide or am
climbing in a thermal that might get me high enough to go on final glide. I have
a screen dedicated to these user-determined fields:

My true airspeed (mph) is shown in the upper right hand corner. I... mehr

Audray Luck takes these shots:

There always has to be a pool at a Texas Record Encampment:
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Gregg Ludwig <<GreggLudwig>>
writes:
News from Rooke Airfield, Refugio, Texas today informs us that the
field is closed to hang gliding for awhile after strong storms and flooding rain
over the last few days. There is standing water everywhere and even the porta
potties got blown off the ramp and out into the grass. Any ideas for... mehr