Contests
- Sporting code FAI, Section 7
- for beginners, using GPS (slovak language)
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Landing zones under Martinske Hole
- landing spots for beginners
- Flight Club - great XC simulator, without waste details
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- go to http://www.danb.dircon.co.uk/hg/hg.htm
Direct links to program:
- version 3.01 http://www.danb.dircon.co.uk/hg/hg_popup.htm
- version 3.01 (mirror na Taiwane) http://wingstaiwan.com/download/hg_popup.htm
- version 3.02 http://www.danb.dircon.co.uk/hg/popup_flightclub.htm
- latest official version http://www.danb.dircon.co.uk/hg/xc_popup.htm
Art of flying, aerodynamics, thermics
- About convection (in czech language)
- author: Jiřího Förchtgotta (published in magazine: Letectví+kosmonautika)
- Storm phenomenons (in czech language)
- author: Jiří Förchtgott
- Thermal tips (in slovak language)
- taked from www.hanggliding.org
- Aerodynamics of HG (in slovak language)
- what is missing in textbooks
- What is tumbling (in slovak language)
- witnesses
- Anatomy of thermals
- CFD simulation of thermal buble
- TEMP diagram explanation
- flash animations
- Cloud watching
- choď na http://www.glidingmagazine.com/ListFeatureArticleDtl.asp?id=151
- Thermal physics (about some superstitions)
- go to www.elltel.net/peterandlinda/thermal_physics.htm
- FAI Metorological guide book (only in german language)
- go to www.pa.op.dlr.de/ostiv/Projects/handbuch.htm
- Thermal statistics (based on OLC)
- go to www.pfg.dtu.dk/termikanalyse/
- Thermal theory (only in german language)
- go to www.wetter-jetzt.de/Flugwetter/
- Research of convection by LIDAR
- go to lidar.ssec.wisc.edu/papers/akp_thes/node6.htm
- Dynamic soaring (description and tips)
- go to www.icarusengineering.com/start.html
Technical informations
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english-slovak hanggliding glossary
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brzd_padak.pdf
- sketch of drogue chute and packing steps
- Polar simulator
- Java program, visual change of glider parametres.
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Wills Wing -articles
- - drag measurement of uprights
- adjustment of reflex bridles with old sail
- flight polars