Crestline Soaring Society - BS (Banter Section)

GPS track log program

chriswvv — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:51:21 -0500

John and Dave,
What program are you using to download your GPS tracklogs?
Thanks,
Chris

PG and HG Caught by Webcam, 5 Minutes Apart

Ken Howells — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:35:45 -0500

20080813 - PG: PG in frame at Crestline at 15:26.

20080813 - HG: HG in frame at Crestline at 15:31.

George Worthington's boyhood home unearthed by archaeologists!!!!!

Peter S — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:59:33 -0500

Big Motorcycle Trip!

Rod_Clark — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:28:42 -0500

Starting 6/19 I'm taking an 8000 mile motorcycle trip, crossing our continent twice and seeing a huge chunk of Canada and the US in the process. I've been keeping a pretty thorough blog of my preparation, and I'm going to be blogging daily as best I can. I encourage you to follow along!

http://supermonth.blogspot.com/

HG ad

Stan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:49:47 -0500

My daughter sent me this link. I've never seen it before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDFJPljXNw

-Stan

Staying in the Cores

Mike_Zeller — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:39:44 -0500

Many of us had fun Sunday 6-8-08 for a couple of hours over Marshall and Cloud. After we landed Tom Swanson described how he got to 9800 while we were flapping our wings as hard as we could to stay at 4200. Tom talked about really banking up to stay in the tight cores. But I had tried that several times without success, in fact I seemed to do better by using wider circles than I usually do.
A few days ago Ken Howells wrote about working cores. Here’s a quote: “I had to really throw my weight sideways a couple of times to stay in ornery cores, but there were several 800-1000 FPM ones where I banked up steep and just shoved the bar out.”

Impressions From First U2 Flight

Mike_Zeller — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:34:32 -0500

Mike B. let me fly his U2 145 last week. I’ve been flying the Sport 2 155 for a long time, then last year I tried a Talon 154 for about 20 flights. But I hook in on the very low side of the weight range for that wing and it isn’t as easy to turn as the Sport 2. By contrast I hook in at just a tick above the middle of the weight range for the U2 and it seemed to turn about as easily as my Sport 2. (Apparently there's something to those recommended weight ranges.) I also tended to get PIO at higher speeds in that large Talon, I experienced no PIO in the U2.

CliffHanger Ride at S.B. County Fair

Ken Howells — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:05:47 -0500

Sort of an attempt at simulating hang gliding, it would seem.
Pretty serious wing loading...

S.B. Fair CliffHanger Ride: Patti Masner, 16, left, and Kenny McMurray, 16, both of Hesperia, enjoy the Cliff Hanger ride at the San Bernardino County Fair in Victorville on Sunday 11 May, 2008. (Gabriel Luis Acosta/Staff Photographer)

Google - Street View

airhead — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:46:17 -0500

If you haven't already seen what Google Maps can now do, check this out.

Google Street View - Devils Canyon Rd / Ben Canyon Rd

New Forum member with a neat webpage

cssAdmin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:29:31 -0500

Welcome to Jonathan Dietch of Long Beach, CA.

"I was a Hang 3 when I last flew 26 years ago and now I'm working on getting back into the sport."

On his website he has a lot of interesting pictures of gliders he designed, built, and flew in the early 1970s in Michigan vicinity.

Personal Website: http://imageevent.com/aero92/gliders