Archive for March, 2006

1-34 Grounded for Work

Friday, March 31st, 2006

BASA members -
The 1-34’s annual inspection expires this Friday March 31. It has not passed inspection yet because of various maintenance items, which are not expected to be resolved until next week. Therefore, the glider will not be legal for flight beginning this Saturday April 1.
We will send out another e-mail once the glider […]

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March Bugle, New Reservation Policy, Annual Pilot Survey

Friday, March 17th, 2006

We have lots of updates today. The March 2006 Bugle is available. It includes:

A copy of the Annual Pilot Survey. Please fill out a copy and get it to Jonathon Hughes.
The finalized and updated BASA Reservation Policy. Read and internalize it. There are many changes to be aware of.
The in-flight […]

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Status of BASA gliders; Wave Camp

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Grob 36L is back at Hollister and assembled. The wheel brakes are still very weak.
The DG-1000 is also assembled at Hollister. The wheel brakes are practically non-existent. Do not point this glider off the runway during your roll-out and expect the brakes to do anything useful. You will probably hit something […]

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