We had lovely flying at Truckee last weekend, but the thunderstorms have been starting lots of fires, and fire-related TFRs have started to appear near Truckee. There is currently one between Stead and Sierraville from surface to 10,000 MSL, and another just northeast of Carson City from surface to 9000 MSL which includes the […]
BASA members:
This is a reminder that the June BASA meeting will be tomorrow evening, Wednesday June 28.
One of the topics for this meeting is getting newer BASA members together with experienced pilots for mentoring flights, and in particular dual cross-country flights. I’ll bring a copies of the reservation calendars for the DG-1000 and the […]
The June 2006 Bugle is now available.
President’s Report
Air Sailing Cross-Country Camp Reports
Extensive maintenance updates (lots of vario changes)
Notes about flying at Truckee
XC Mentoring encouragement
Flight Committee contafct info
Enjoy!
Jonathan and I put together a weight and balance calculator Excel spreadsheet for the DG1000 that may be useful for quick estimates. Just enter the relevant data in the uncolored/shaded unlocked cells and it will determine if the glider is within limits and within max gross. There are sub-tables for data entry for […]
Some changes have been made to the DG-1000 electric varios to address intermittent problems with the rear-seat electric vario, with the front seat vario audio being very quiet and with poor total energy compensation on all varios.
The front-seat electric vario is now a Borgelt B400, the current replacement of the B40 that was previously installed. […]
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