Bay Area Soaring Associates (BASA)

The August 2006 Bugle is now available.

Sergio’s Mini-Seminars at Truckee in August
DG-1000 Oxygen Leak
DG-1000 AD Pending
End of Season Ship Movements

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The July 2006 Bugle is now available.

The story of the Open Cockpit 1-34
Truckee Bash Report
Several First XC Flights
Sergio’s Mini-Seminars at Truckee in August

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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

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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. […]

Grob Wheel Brakes
Haven Rich and Peter Reischl have made further repairs and adjustments to the wheel brakes on 36L, and they seem to be working well now. They do engage a bit earlier than might be ideal, but that might work itself out as the pads get worn in and the cable gets stretched. […]

The May 2006 Bugle is now available. It includes:

Several new members
Maintenance updates
Glider relocation to Truckee
Parowan Safari information

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The April 2006 Bugle is now available. It includes:

A Wave Camp Update from Hans (new camp dates selected in May)
Information about the SZD-51 Junior
Update on the DG-1000 order

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BASA Pilots, please be aware of the weekend TFRs that will be in place this weekend in the San Jose area for President Bush’s visit.
Here’s some info from AOPA:
There will be a large 30-nautical-mile-radius temporary flight restriction (TFR) over San Jose centered on the SJC VOR’s 278-degree radial at 5.6 miles, extending up to Flight […]