- 1. [MATOS] Warning about 8.33kHz Radios
- (Matériel)
- Since the beginning of 2018, 8.33kHz radios became mandatory. Although it has been communicated via various channels that there are significant differences with the old simple 25kHz radios, this still ...
- Créé le 9 Février 2019
- 2. [PARTENAIRE] Segelfliegen magazin/soaring international 02-2024
- (Partenaires)
- ... to smile and dream a little about the most beautiful hobby in the world. We hope you enjoy reading it ! You can download the Soaring International 01-2024 for free and also order the current issue (59.00 ...
- Créé le 3 Mars 2024
- 3. [2024] Euroglide 2024
- (Agenda)
- ... will be from Monday, June 24th to and including Friday, July 5th (assuming there are no major military exercises in that period) The picture shows the intended trajectory of about 2500 kilometers with ...
- Créé le 26 Octobre 2023
- 4. [LECTURE] An Uncomfortable Truth
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- An old fighter pilot saying goes “It is better to die than to look bad, but it is possible to do both.” While I don’t agree with it, there is a bit of truth to that quote. Many of us have a bias where ...
- Créé le 24 Octobre 2023
- 5. [NEW] Ventus E
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- It is now official: Schempp-Hirth is working on a Ventus E electric self-launcher concept. What was considered as a technical challenge around 13 years ago with the Arcus E, has now developed into a mature ...
- Créé le 28 Septembre 2023
- 6. [STRATEGIE] When Low, Part 1 & 2
- (Documentations)
- This two-part article is about things to do (and not do) on a cross-country glider flight when you are well below your planned height band, have already selected a field or airport to land in, and are ...
- Créé le 2 Septembre 2023
- 7. [?] How to Become a Glider Pilot in 2023
- (Divers)
- ... to extract the necessary energy from nature. It offers a challenge to old and new pilots and can be the best start of a career in aviation. This extensive guide will cover everything you need to know about ...
- Créé le 19 Janvier 2023
- 8. [VIDEO] Gliding extrem - just a waste of money?
- (Média)
- On this day of the wave flying camp in Jesenik, Czech Republic, the weather forecast was very good, so we hoped to be able to climb to high altitudes up to flight level 245. I took off in my glider about ...
- Créé le 2 Janvier 2023
- 9. [SIMU] Getting the most out of your simulator experience
- (Média)
- For this edition of the podcast Scott Manley joins us to talk about how we can use simulation as a powerful tool to learn and also have some fun while we are on the ground. Scott has been an educator and ...
- Créé le 4 Novembre 2022
- 10. [SAFETY] Collision avoidance habits
- (Formation et Securité)
- We’re taught from our very first lesson about scanning for other gliders, that maintaining a scan is super important when studying clouds, or the climb rate of turning gliders ahead. Having your head ...
- Créé le 10 Octobre 2022
- 11. [STS] Cross Country Across The Country
- (Média)
- Our friend Zach Yamauchi recently caught up with Gordon Boettger, Gordon has added a whole new meaning to “cross country” soaring as you are about to hear on this episode. He has been soaring pretty ...
- Créé le 21 Juin 2022
- 12. [EGU] Newsletter 1/2022
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... the 1st of October 1993 and updated in 2016. The aim of the EGU is to be the independent representative of the interests of all glider pilots in Europe with respect to regulatory affairs. https://glidingunion.eu/index.php/about-egu/ ...
- Créé le 12 Mai 2022
- 13. [EGU] Newsletter 2/2022
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... the 1st of October 1993 and updated in 2016. The aim of the EGU is to be the independent representative of the interests of all glider pilots in Europe with respect to regulatory affairs. https://glidingunion.eu/index.php/about-egu/ ...
- Créé le 12 Mai 2022
- 14. [EGU] Newsletter 1/2023
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... the 1st of October 1993 and updated in 2016. The aim of the EGU is to be the independent representative of the interests of all glider pilots in Europe with respect to regulatory affairs. https://glidingunion.eu/index.php/about-egu/ ...
- Créé le 12 Mai 2022
- 15. [EGU] Newsletter 2023 - Safety Special
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... on the 1st of October 1993 and updated in 2016. The aim of the EGU is to be the independent representative of the interests of all glider pilots in Europe with respect to regulatory affairs. https://glidingunion.eu/index.php/about-egu/ ...
- Créé le 12 Mai 2022
- 16. [EGU] Newsletter 2/2023
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... the 1st of October 1993 and updated in 2016. The aim of the EGU is to be the independent representative of the interests of all glider pilots in Europe with respect to regulatory affairs. https://glidingunion.eu/index.php/about-egu/ ...
- Créé le 12 Mai 2022
- 17. [EGU] Newsletter 1/2024
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... the 1st of October 1993 and updated in 2016. The aim of the EGU is to be the independent representative of the interests of all glider pilots in Europe with respect to regulatory affairs. https://glidingunion.eu/index.php/about-egu/ ...
- Créé le 12 Mai 2022
- 18. [PERFO] Le Nimeta X
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- The world´s largest single seater glider: Nimeta X. Unbelievable wing flex and a glide ratio of about 70:1. We had a look at this extreme glider at Veronica Flying in Namibia.
- Créé le 17 Janvier 2022
- 19. [STS] Crash Landings & Mid Air Collisions
- (Formation et Securité)
- Soaring the sky is an aviation podcast all about the adventures of flying sailplanes. Join Chuck as he talks with other aviators around the globe. You never know who the next guest will be on Soaring the ...
- Créé le 5 Janvier 2022
- 20. [OUDIE] Naviter Updater V5.xx
- (Informatique)
- ... in the backgound until there is something you should know about the status of your device. That’s it! Update airspace files Updates software version Uploads IGC files to SeeYou Cloud ...
- Créé le 19 Juin 2021
- 21. [REX] Near Mid Air Collision with Tow Plane
- (Formation et Securité)
- In this video we analyse a near miss with a tow plane and glider on tow. How it happened, what went wrong, and what we learned to help avoid such incidents in the future. It was closer than we would like! ...
- Créé le 6 Juin 2021
- 22. [VIDEO] The Glider Accident that Never Happened
- (Média)
- Join us on a hike to an "unknown" and "unreported" aircraft accident site along the Appalachian Trail. In the 1970's a glider crashed near Mt. Kinsman in New Hampshire, and little is known about it. Listen ...
- Créé le 4 Décembre 2020
- 23. [PLB] How a Personal Locator Beacon can save your life ?
- (Formation et Securité)
- ... is these beacons have saved tens of thousands of lives in remote country.But tragically, not enough people who enjoy the great outdoors know about them, or how to use them.Every year, people die unnecessarily ...
- Créé le 2 Novembre 2020
- 24. [SECU] Does Soaring Have To Be So Dangerous ?
- (Formation et Securité)
- ... horse back riding, paragliding, etc. I showed that the risk of dying in a soaring accident is approx. 1 per 50,000 flight hours, which makes soaring per activity hour about 2x as dangerous as riding ...
- Créé le 3 Juin 2020
- 25. [INFO] Electronics Experiment #1 - electrical crosstalk demonstrated
- (Matériel)
- Electrical crosstalk is a type of interference where the signals carried in one set of wires "talk across" into another set of wires. This video sets up a simple glider electrical harness, talks about ...
- Créé le 3 Juin 2020
- 26. [DIRECT] SkySight
- (Météo)
- Direct avec Mr SkySight ce vendredi 24.04 à 19h00 (GMT+2) " This week I'm giving a presentation about SkySight covering the improvements to forecasting technology we've made in the last year, hosted by ...
- Créé le 21 Avril 2020
- 27. [SECU] Safety Comes First
- (Formation et Securité)
- ... linen with press present and strangers listening?” It will not concern me in the least. If one were to gather together everything about soaring that was worth knowing, in my opinion, it would be divided ...
- Créé le 5 Mars 2020
- 28. [RECORD] 2000 km dans les Alpes en un jour ....
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- .... Klaus y travaille .... et s'entraine ! Klaus Ohlmann landed In Aosta speaking about the biggest possible flight in the Alps ...
- Créé le 22 Avril 2019
- 29. [EGU] Newsletter 1/2021
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... the 1st of October 1993 and updated in 2016. The aim of the EGU is to be the independent representative of the interests of all glider pilots in Europe with respect to regulatory affairs. https://glidingunion.eu/index.php/about-egu/ ...
- Créé le 21 Mars 2017
- 30. [A LIRE] When competition becomes more important than life itself
- (Formation et Securité)
- ... dernier lors de la FCC (Flight Challenge Cup Gliding ) en Slovaquie The weather on the Polish side was getting worse. I had serious doubts about finding landing fields in front of us and I ...
- Créé le 28 Mai 2016
- 31. [DKL-LSA] IKARUS C42CS
- (Partenaires)
- ... du parc des Ulm Français, la gamme des IKARUS C42 se compose désormais de quatre appareils, le C42A, B, C et le dernier-né de la gamme, le CS. Sa production aboutira pour le constructeur à passer le cap ...
- Créé le 24 Mai 2016
- 32. [FAI] World Air Games Dubai 2015
- (FAI)
- ... Mozer. “The World Air Games are the ideal venue for this new form of glider racing.” For further information about the Gliding event at the World Air Games, click here or visit http://crosscountry.aero/wag ...
- Créé le 1 Décembre 2015
- 33. [FAI] Anti-Doping Rules
- (FAI)
- ... of a TUE automatically for a class of substances or for selected classes of substances. Whereabouts/Out-Of-Competition Tests: IFs may decide (based on their Test Distribution Plan), to have different ...
- Créé le 13 Janvier 2015
- 34. [HANDI] VI pour personnes à mobilité réduite
- (Clubs et régions)
- ... équipé. Cette journée était à la fois l’aboutissement d’une démarche d’ouverture et la première pierre d’un projet ambitieux visant à développer d’ici 1 à 2 ans la formation de personnes à mobilité réduite. ...
- Créé le 14 Septembre 2013
- 35. [!] Quasi-collision planeur / A340
- (Formation et Securité)
- ... que des violations de l’espace aérien, par seulement quelques vélivoles indélicats, aboutiront en fin de compte à des restrictions pour le vol à voile dans son ensemble. Je n’aurai donc que très peu de ...
- Créé le 23 Mai 2013
- 36. [DECOUVERTE] Voler en Grece !
- (Clubs et régions)
- ... Our Gliding Club main purpose is to disseminate and develop Gliding and airmanship all around Greece and let people know about the happiness of …silent flight. Selflessly devoted both the entire club’s ...
- Créé le 5 Mai 2013
- 37. [SCHEMPP-HIRTH] Quintus M
- (Matériel)
- ... flight. With the help of the wingtip wheels and the steerable tail wheel beautifully built into the rudder, I rolled independently up to the end of runway 31 and was once again overjoyed about the ...
- Créé le 22 Janvier 2012
- 38. [OSTIV] Congress 2010 Szeged : Call for Papers
- (FAI)
- ... Letters of acceptance together with instructions for paper preparation will be mailed by 15 May 2010. Deadline for the paper – max. about 10 pages including figures - is 1 July 2010, guidelines at ...
- Créé le 27 Février 2010
- 39. [!] Neutralisation balises 121.5 Mhz
- (Matériel)
- La DSAC nous informe qu’en 2008, 485 recherches ont concerné des balises aéronautiques ou nautiques alors que seulement 7 recherches ont abouti à une alerte justifiée. Depuis le 1er février ...
- Créé le 13 Mai 2009
- 40. [VIDEO] Libre comme l'ai
- (Média)
- ... ; en plus de l'accueil chaleureux que l'on retrouve chez l'ensemble des vélivoles, il n'ont pas hésité à tous faire pour que ce projet aboutisse et nous les remercions chaleureusement. Après ce galop ...
- Créé le 1 Décembre 2008
- 41. [AIDE] Convention occupation domaine public
- (Réglementations)
- ... et étayé: Nous en avions un qui, présenté de façon positive à nos interlocuteurs, pouvait avoir des chances d'aboutir. Par exemple, lorsque la communauté de communes est devenue propriétaire du terrain, ...
- Créé le 17 Octobre 2008
- 42. [GRAND PRIX] Day 1
- (FAI)
- ... days of flying,” he said. With unsettled weather early in the day the pilots were apprehensive about the flying conditions. A bold early move by Mark Holliday (SA) and Michael Sommer (GER) gave ...
- Créé le 20 Décembre 2007