Newsletter: The newsletter is available in print via postal mail, or by email in PDF format (readable by all computers). The PDF format uses colored pictures; the printed copy does not. Please contact Brian Utley, membership chairman, if you wish to switch from one form to the other. Contact information is on the last page of the newsletter, and on the Contact the ASA link in the sidebar menu.

Note: the following method of obtaining the newsletter is "under construction". The current email delivery method has several chronic problems we hope this new method will eliminate. Brian Utley, membership chairman, will contact those subscribed to the electronic version to explain the reasons before the next newsletter, and there will be an article in the next newsletter. If you wish to change from the print edition to the electronic edition (color pictures!), please contact Brian.

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[In development] The current issue can be downloaded here. If you are subscribed to the electronic version, you will receive the password needed to open the pdf file when a new edition is available.

We need newsletter articles: Like many organizations, our newsletter editor, Gary Haynes, faces a nearly empty mailbox, even if he waits two months (the time between issues) to empty it. To fill the remaining newsletter pages, he persuades the directors to contribute articles. This method often gets a respectable newsletter out to the members, but it’s not sustainable or desirable. If you might be able to help...

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Book:

ASA with permission of Charm Williams is re-publishing Pete Williams definitive book on Self Launch Motor Gliders. This DVD has the complete book, cover to cover, as well as an added bonus of every ASA newsletter ever printed through the fall of 2007. You can get your copy for only $14.95 + $4.05 in postage/handling by sending a $19.00 check to: ASA - Pete Williams DVD c/o Eric Greenwell 222 Thayer Dr Richland, WA 99352

Other publications: These publications are still available as printed booklets (while they last) from the ASA (order form). There is a charge for printed copies. Better yet, you can now download - free - the same publications here:

• DG800B Pilot's Briefing by Pete Williams
• Glaser-Dirks DG-400 Pilot's Briefing by Pete Williams
  
• Motor Glider Matters by Pete Williams
  
• Pilot-Owner Survey (April 1994)
• Powered Sailplane Operational, Maintenance, Service, Repair and Defect Survey (Nov. 1995)
• Sailplane Operations - A Power Pilot's Briefing by Pete Williams
• Survey of Motorized Sailplane Pilot Owners Concerning Systems Upkeep, Incidents and Accidents (Feb. 1998)

Publications from other sources:

Soaring Magazine The official magazine of the Soaring Society of America (SSA)
Gliding and Motorgliding International An online magazine by the SSA

Articles

A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation - 3rd Edition (56 pages) - by Eric Greenwell. Go to the description and download page. Downloaded over 7500 times by Oct. 2008). Why Own a Powered Sailplane? and some of what's involved - by Eric Greenwell Motorglider Accident Report by Tom Seim (DG 400)

Condition Inspection Guides

A "condition inspection" is the experimentally licensed aircraft's equivalent of an annual inspection for type certified aircraft. This guide can serve as a model for your motorglider's inspection. Note: these are not "official" documents.

• Schmepp-Hirth Ventus CM  (MS Word format) by Dave Noyes.
• Schleicher ASH 26 E (MS Word format) by Eric Greenwell.