Soaring and Flying
Airplane Lesson Plans
AOPA
instrument course on charts
Doug Jacobs Contest Flying
Presentations
Weather
Ground Launch Procedures by Sierra Mike
Soaring Book Library
Tony Verhulst's reading list: http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/GBSC/read_lst/read_lst.htm
Sugarbush Friends
Foliage in Vermont 2000
Polly Gets a Duo Ride
Why is there Lift? (It's not Bernoulli)
http://www.geovisiononline.com/fineweek
The highly acclaimed video A Fine Week of Soaring.
Clubs and Organizations
Experimental Aircraft Association
www.glider.com Bill Bartell's soaring pages.
Greater Boston Soaring Club based in Sterling MA.
MIT Soaring Association based in Sterling MA.
Region 1 is the New England organization of soaring pilots and clubs.
Soaring Society of America
Sugarbush Soaring Association based in Warren VT.
Stories
The Franklin and I
A reminisance by Walter Lob about flying gliders in the late thirties
at MIT.
Touching the Clouds
(Very special),
Flight in wave at Sugarbush
Hindsight on an emergency.
Outlanding at Mifflin 2000
A tale of imprisonment.
Birdstrike Photos
The repair of Bonanza N8309N after it struck a bird on 30 April 2000.
Also shown are pictures of the damage.
Computing True Airspeed
The spreadsheet AirspeedFromThreeTracks.xls
Computes the actual true airspeed of a plane given three GPS tracks
taken at the same airspeed. Given three GPS tracks at the same
airspeed you can compute a complete solution for the heading on each
track and the TAS. The spreadsheet contains actual data taken at low
altitude in Lancair IV-P N776CM. Additional data will be added to the
spreadsheet as it is collected for other altitudes.
The method came from a good discussion by Doug Grey which can be found at:
http://www.ntps.edu/Files/tas_fnl3.pdf.
Applications and Support
Soaring applications are listed with other
applications
supported on the Dragonnorth resources page.
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