- 1. [WATER] Your <span class="highlight">First</span> Ballasted Flight ...
- (Documentations)
- Prior to your first flight with water ballast, there are a few things that you should do. If your glider has removable bags pull them out, place them on a sloping surface and fill them with water - ...
- Créé le 01 juillet 2023
- 2. [SECU] Safety Comes <span class="highlight">First</span> ...
- (Formation et Securité)
- Safety Comes First by Bruno Gantenbrink - Translated by David Noyes, Edited by Beth Langstaff - The following article was published in Aerokurier, February, 1993. My talk was advertised as a banquet ...
- Créé le 05 mars 2020
- 3. [2024] Euroglide 2024
- (Agenda)
- Dear Euroglide friends, the organisation committee of the Euroglide has come to life again! As a first step we have fixed a date for the Euroglide challenge in 2024. The period for the Euroglide 2024 ...
- Créé le 26 octobre 2023
- 4. [MENTAL] Head in the Clouds
- (Documentations)
- Head in the Clouds is a BGA initiative to raise Mental Health Awareness in gliding. It is being led by Mental Health First Aider and BGGC Membership Liaison Officer, Joey Beard. The BGA are already a ...
- Créé le 25 septembre 2023
- 5. [BGA] Student Pilot Manual
- (Documentations)
- ... e are basic pre-solo training in a two-seater glider until your first solo flight, advanced training until obtaining your licence or equivalent, and for those who chose to, further advanced training in specif ...
- Créé le 01 juillet 2023
- 6. [GUIDE] Self-Launching Sailplane Operation
- (Formation et Securité)
- I wrote the first edition of this guide in 1996 because I couldn’t find a comprehensive guide to aid my friends and I when we began flying self-launching sailplanes. The majority of it is aimed at self-launching, ...
- Créé le 27 janvier 2023
- 7. [FAI] General Conference
- (FAI)
- ... took place over three days and included the annual FAI Awards, broadcast in an online video on Tuesday 1, the first day of the conference >>> https://www.fai.org/news/gc2022-highlights ...
- Créé le 09 novembre 2022
- 8. [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
- 9. [RENCONTRE] Elena Fergnani
- (FAI)
- Thirty-three-year-old Elena Fergnani has been flying since the age of 14. After three years she entered her first competition in a dual seater aircraft before quickly progressing to single seat competition. ...
- Créé le 07 septembre 2022
- 10. [EGU] Newsletter 1/2022
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... by representatives of the gliding associations of Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Its statutes were adopted at the first congress held in Strasbourg o ...
- Créé le 12 mai 2022
- 11. [EGU] Newsletter 2/2022
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... by representatives of the gliding associations of Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Its statutes were adopted at the first congress held in Strasbourg o ...
- Créé le 12 mai 2022
- 12. [EGU] Newsletter 1/2023
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... by representatives of the gliding associations of Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Its statutes were adopted at the first congress held in Strasbourg o ...
- Créé le 12 mai 2022
- 13. [EGU] Newsletter 2023 - Safety Special
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... d in 1992 by representatives of the gliding associations of Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Its statutes were adopted at the first congress held in Strasbou ...
- Créé le 12 mai 2022
- 14. [EGU] Newsletter 2/2023
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... by representatives of the gliding associations of Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Its statutes were adopted at the first congress held in Strasbourg o ...
- Créé le 12 mai 2022
- 15. [FAI] Series 11 of Sailplane Grand Prix
- (FAI)
- ... be 10 National contests in the 11th series with the World final being held at Pavullo in Italy, which was also the venue for the first E-Glide and 13.5m World championships. The series includes three events ...
- Créé le 14 novembre 2021
- 16. [FAI] 2022 Young Artists Contest
- (FAI)
- ... that their design might become an inspiration for tomorrow’s aviation reality. The theme for the 2022 contest is : Design your perfect aircraft. The Young Artists Contest is first run at a national ...
- Créé le 04 juillet 2021
- 17. [PLB] How a Personal Locator Beacon can save your life ?
- (Formation et Securité)
- How a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) can save your life ! why carry a PLBFirst of all, because it can save your life. If you are injured and immobile – whether that’s from a fall, capsize (if on water), ...
- Créé le 02 novembre 2020
- 18. [COMPETITION] AAT TACTICS
- (Formation et Securité)
- 1. Choose the right side of the start line 2. Use as much distance as possible in the first area 3. Follow the good weather and fly in stright lines using the ‘move’ function 4. There is no big penalty ...
- Créé le 18 avril 2020
- 19. [ANALYSE] The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love
- (Formation et Securité)
- ... not have been further from the truth. And while the slogan was famously debunked by the prominent German pilot Bruno Gantenbrink in his speech “Safety comes first“, our instinct to downplay the risks to ...
- Créé le 09 novembre 2019
- 20. [EGU] Newsletter 1/2021
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... by representatives of the gliding associations of Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Its statutes were adopted at the first congress held in Strasbourg o ...
- Créé le 21 mars 2017
- 21. [FAI] World Air Games Dubai 2015
- (FAI)
- ... glider more precisely, make more precise turns, and control the speed more effectively, all with the goal of being the first across the finish line. A Championship consists of three days ...
- Créé le 01 décembre 2015
- 22. [VIDEO] Vol en NG-1
- (Média)
- A short overview of my first flight in my new sailplane! This is an NG-1, experimental-homebuilt sailplane. It is based off of the BG-12 design. The flight was made at Texas Soaring Association ...
- Créé le 02 septembre 2015
- 23. [SCHEMPP-HIRTH] Quintus M
- (Matériel)
- First impressions of the QUINTUS (written by Tilo Holighaus) Photographe: SHK/B.Weber We were very excited and happy when the weather broke just before Christmas on December 23rd, ...
- Créé le 22 janvier 2012
- 24. [TOPMETEO] Namibia
- (Partenaires)
- ... the first time ever in flight update of meteorological information delivered by text messages to a cell phone. In addition all the well known weather forecast services are now offered for southern Africa ...
- Créé le 11 novembre 2011
- 25. [CARNETS DE VOL] CLOUDY
- (L'actualité aéronautique)
- ... au pour les lecteurs de planeur.net : voici un code promo donnant le droit à 20% de réduction pour tous ceux qui souhaiteraient souscrire à un pack First Class : Rh49GlMd ...
- Créé le 31 mai 2011
- 26. [CERN] LHC GO !
- (Divers)
- ... Plus d'infos : http://www.lhc-france.fr/spip.php?article1&id_document=574&page=media&id_document=574&page=media http://public.web.cern.ch/public/fr/LHC/LHC-fr.html http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/Welco ...
- Créé le 10 septembre 2008
- 27. [GRAND PRIX] Day 6
- (FAI)
- ... line first today to claim his first win. Kawa came second, gaining the much needed points to take him to the top of the leader board. The advanced technology introduced this year allowed spectators ...
- Créé le 24 décembre 2007
- 28. [GRAND PRIX] DAY 5
- (FAI)
- ... and neck coming in to the final turn, turning in different directions, Flewett had the advantage and crossed the line to take third place putting him in first place on the overall leader board. The ...
- Créé le 23 décembre 2007
- 29. [GRAND PRIX] Day 3
- (FAI)
- ... him. Kiessling was delighted with the win despite his slow start, “I was near the back of the field after the first turn point and got a huge thermal giving me a fantastic run up the Hunter ...
- Créé le 21 décembre 2007
- 30. [GRAND PRIX] Day 2
- (FAI)
- ... judgements and the winner will definitely be the pilot who makes the least mistakes. The next few days are going to be very exciting,” he said. The 282.2km task first travelled north west to Mt ...
- Créé le 20 décembre 2007
- 31. [GRAND PRIX] Day 1
- (FAI)
- ... it was a challenging first race with the results dependent on crucial route decisions. The lead pilots were continuously switching positions and a strong easterly on the second leg made it tricky to ...
- Créé le 20 décembre 2007