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Now has a local distributor:   

http://www.lightflying.com.au/Stratomaster%20Pages/MGL%20Aviation%20Radios.htm

and I bought one so will post a review when we get it going!

Following is a link to a short video I have produced for our club - The Victorian Motorless Flight Group

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqy13fc-5mU

John Parncutt

I found an interesting series of articles on using Google Earth to map local gliding features and facilitate cross-country flights. It's here at a blog called The Soaring Laboratory (along with follow-up articles including a presentation the author, Michael Reid, made to the 2010 SSA convention

http://soaringlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/cross-country-planning-tool-google-maps.html

I think this would be a great idea for local clubs in Australia, to show land-outs, house thermals, circuits etc (plus much more).

smith

The Aus-RASP implementation, sponsored by Internode, can be found here:

http://glidingforecast.on.net/RASP/RASPtable.html

I have changed the wind speed parameters to have a fixed max value of
40 Kts, this should operate as of the next run this afternoon.

I have also changed max cloudbase, max thermal
strength etc. to a fixed scale, which will be changed for summer and winter periods,
or rather for DST or non-DST periods.

Max height will be 14,000' for all height parms, and max strength 1100
fpm (11 Kts netto) for the 'summer' (DST) period, and 10,000' and 700
fpm for 'winter' (non-DST).

I may tweak these values later if required; I'll see how the scale looks.
These changes were so that when scanning through the blipmaps (or using the animated viewer)
any particular colour always relates to the same value, rather than floating as before.

Drop this URL into translate.google and you may get some clues as to where Naviter source the hardware:

http://www.postfrontal.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=3430&#37300

Also see:

http://www.postfrontal.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3431

Add XCSoar for free................. or LK8000.

http://www.soaringspot.com/48ozmulti/news/

Champions
Standard class
1.   Michael DURRANT   Geelong GC   7635
2.   Peter TEMPLE   Adelaide SC   7435
3.   Peter TROTTER   Kingaroy   7387

15-meter
1.   John BUCHANAN   Kingaroy SC   8526
2.   Lisa TROTTER   Kingaroy SC   8522
3.   Terry CUBLEY   Adelaide SC   8150

18-meter
1.   Bruce TAYLOR   Lake Keepit SC   7614
2.   Lars ZEHNDER   Darling Downs SC   7385
3.   Craig VINALL   Waikerie GC   6967

Open class
1.   David JANSEN   Kingaroy SC   7506
2.   Gerrit KURSTJENS   Darling Downs SC   7469
3.   Eric HEINONEN   Finland   7392

A new Personal Navigation Device which runs SeeYou Mobile natively:

http://www.naviter.si/seeyou-mobile/announcing-oudie.php?Itemid=1

Interesting reading..............

http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/32918/limit_see_avoid.pdf

Is this the future of gliding? A great concept.

http://www.front-electric-sustainer.com/

http://picasaweb.google.si/LukaZnidarsic/TestFlightOfFrontElectricSustainer#5399072136597247474