Albuquerque Soaring Club

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ASC Information and Soaring Links

ASC Information

• Moriarty Airport Logistics Information. Click here.
• Towpilot checkout procedures: ASC Procedure for Qualifying New Tow Pilots - Rev B -- June 3, 2008
• ASC Membership application form PDF or PPT. Please print and use both pages then submit to Board for approval.

Related Soaring Sites

• Sundance Soaring  The local commercial glider operation
• Soaring Society of America
• Silent Wings Airshows
• Southwest Soaring Museum at Moriarty Airport
• New Mexico state soaring records
• SeeYou flight analysis and planning software
• LX Navigation the makers of our Colibri GPS Data logger.
• http://skyvector.com - Google-map-like Sectional charts online. Very neat!

Safety-related Sites

• Seat Belt Re-Webbing http://aircraftseatbelts.com/index.htm
• Tow-related emergencies by Ash Collins PDF File and Word File
• NM Accident Summary, by Markus Graeber PDF Report, Presentation Slides(pdf), Presentation Slides, Excel File, Word File
• Moriarty wave window information
• Glider pilot checklists, by Lee Kulke:    Pre-launch and comprehensive

Soaring Simulation at Home

• Condor Soaring Simulator: www.condorsoaring.com
• Control hardware:
  • Some Pedals:
    • CH tinyurl.com/282mcd $99
    • Saitek http://tinyurl.com/ypo2y6 from Amazon.com - A little more than $100, but popular with users
  • Joysticks (there are many sticks out there, these are just a few)
    • tinyurl.com/2gw9bl $30 - Logitech - a good cheap stick with enough buttons
    • http://tinyurl.com/2hsquk ~$60 - Microsoft Sidewinder Forcefeedback 2 - reported to react well to trim setting

Informative sites and files

• Wave Flying, Al Santilli Click here
• An article from the ABQ Journal(May 15, 2007) about transponders. Click Here.
• A very nice little set of tutorials on understanding weather forecasting: Click here
• Sunset times anywhere in theworld
• A website that helps remind us how to convert to UTC time
• Historical Overview of Albuquerque Airfields
• A great presentation on the SW monsoon and backdoor cold fronts - Click here
• 2005 New Mexico Weather Summary
• November 2005 Albuquerque Journal Article on Moriarty Soaring: PDF File, or jpeg Images page 1 and page 2.
• 2005 OLC Results Brochure PDF File
• ASC Brochure PDF File
• Summer 2005 Article about Moriarty Soaring PDF File and html link.
• A little writeup on Sangres SoaringSeptember 2004
• 2005 SSA Article by Brian Resor on the OLC and Moriarty Brian's draft and the SOARING magazine pages.
• 2004 NM Climate Summary.
• Summer 2004 Crosswinds article on Soaring byHoward Banks PDF File
• Planning long cross country flights, by Carl Ekdahl PDF and Powerpoint
• Glider Pilots Soar and Float with Nature from the Albuquerque Journal.
• Practice For The FAA Written Exam
  A website designed to let you practice the FAA written tests.
• FAI Sporting Code, Section 3
  All the details you ever need to know(and more) about rules for flying badge and record tasks
• Badge and Record declarationforms
• Purchase a true serial port for you laptop HERE (Amazon site)

Websites of other soaring operations in the area

• White Sands Soaring Association Alamorgordo, NM
• National Soaring Foundation Hobbs, NM
• Colorado Soaring Association at Owl Canyon Gliderport
• Soaring Society of Boulder Boulder, CO
• Mile High Gliding Boulder, CO
• High Flights Soaring Club Falcon, CO
• Black Forest Soaring Society Elbert, CO
• Durango Soaring Club, Inc Durango, CO
• Prescott Soaring Association Prescott, AZ
• Sky Soaring Payson/Sedona/Phonix, AZ
• Turf Soaring Peoria, AZ
• Arizona Soaring Association Phoenix, AZ
• Estrella Gliderport Maricopa, AZ
• Tuscon Soaring Club Tucson, AZ
• El Paso Soaring Society El Paso, TX
• Caprock Soaring Club Littlefield, TX
• Marfa Gliders Marfa, TX

Websites of other active soaring operations

• Seattle Glider Council Ephrata, WA
• Minden Soaring Club
• Ely Soaring, NV
• Parowan Soaring, NV