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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 22 13:16:00 2023
    Would someone please be so king to do a daily report from the convention and let all of us on RAS what the daily observations are. Old Bob, The Purist

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  • From Charles Longley@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Feb 23 20:39:44 2023
    On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:16:01 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    Would someone please be so king to do a daily report from the convention and let all of us on RAS what the daily observations are. Old Bob, The Purist
    Dude we need to go next year!

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  • From kinsell@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 24 22:16:22 2023
    On 2/22/23 1:16 PM, [email protected] wrote:
    Would someone please be so king to do a daily report from the convention and let all of us on RAS what the daily observations are. Old Bob, The Purist

    Not much breaking news. Yesterday Garrett Willat was giving a talk and
    wanted to refer the audience to an old Soaring article, and admitted he
    didn't know how to log into the new website to get to the archives.

    Today Kempton Izuno made a noble attempt to do a video conference
    concurrently with his presentation, and the Nacbook locked up causing
    him to dump the remote audience. Technology moves slowly.

    If you want to see some purdy pictures of motorgliders, you can go to: https://www.facebook.com/AuxiliaryPoweredSailplaneAssociation

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  • From Eric Greenwell@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Feb 25 16:21:18 2023
    On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:16:01 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    Would someone please be so king to do a daily report from the convention and let all of us on RAS what the daily observations are. Old Bob, The Purist
    "Many" of the presentations were recorded, and will be available for viewing, including the motorglider maintenance session and Kempton's. I can get you the links to those in a few day...

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Eric Greenwell on Sun Feb 26 15:42:45 2023
    On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 7:21:20 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:16:01 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    Would someone please be so king to do a daily report from the convention and let all of us on RAS what the daily observations are. Old Bob, The Purist
    "Many" of the presentations were recorded, and will be available for viewing, including the motorglider maintenance session and Kempton's. I can get you the links to those in a few day...
    The motorglider maintenance session would probably take up too much bandwidth so it could not cover all the maintenance issues. Old Bob, The Purist

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  • From 2G@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Feb 26 17:57:35 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 3:42:47 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 7:21:20 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:16:01 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    Would someone please be so king to do a daily report from the convention and let all of us on RAS what the daily observations are. Old Bob, The Purist
    "Many" of the presentations were recorded, and will be available for viewing, including the motorglider maintenance session and Kempton's. I can get you the links to those in a few day...
    The motorglider maintenance session would probably take up too much bandwidth so it could not cover all the maintenance issues. Old Bob, The Purist

    The ASA motorglider maintenance sessions had plenty of info useful for maintenance, but only for those who actually OWN motorgliders. Tire kickers might also find it helpful to get a handle on what is in store for them.

    Of course, covering ALL of the potential maintenance issues for ALL motorgliders in just ONE day is impossible.

    Tom

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  • From Eric Greenwell@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Mar 2 11:28:47 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 3:42:47 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 7:21:20 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:16:01 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    Would someone please be so king to do a daily report from the convention and let all of us on RAS what the daily observations are. Old Bob, The Purist
    "Many" of the presentations were recorded, and will be available for viewing, including the motorglider maintenance session and Kempton's. I can get you the links to those in a few day...
    The motorglider maintenance session would probably take up too much bandwidth so it could not cover all the maintenance issues. Old Bob, The Purist
    There is a large variation in the amount of maintenance each model of motorglider requires. As a former owner of a tow plane, I can report it took a lot more maintenance than my motorglider.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Eric Greenwell on Thu Mar 2 12:58:37 2023
    On Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 2:28:49 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 3:42:47 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 7:21:20 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:16:01 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    Would someone please be so king to do a daily report from the convention and let all of us on RAS what the daily observations are. Old Bob, The Purist
    "Many" of the presentations were recorded, and will be available for viewing, including the motorglider maintenance session and Kempton's. I can get you the links to those in a few day...
    The motorglider maintenance session would probably take up too much bandwidth so it could not cover all the maintenance issues. Old Bob, The Purist
    There is a large variation in the amount of maintenance each model of motorglider requires. As a former owner of a tow plane, I can report it took a lot more maintenance than my motorglider.

    Eric,
    I did about 1300 tows last year and only replaced a mag, the two motorgliders that were at the airport both blew motors and had to depend on the Towpecker, so Eric, how about those motorgliders. I did not see a Pawnee maintenance discussion on the
    convention agenda, did you. Old Bob, The Purist

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