GGC - International Gliding Links

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The following list is of links to gliding related sites of an international nature. Due to the limitations of the author only english language sites have been included.

INTERNATIONAL

Organisations

Fédération Aéronautique Inernationale: The Fédération Aéronautique Inernationale (FAI), the world's air sports federation, was founded in 1905. It is a non-governmental and non-profit making international organization.
International Gliding Commission: The International Gliding Commission (IGC) is responsible for all Airsports involving gliders and motor gliders with the exception of aerobatics.
Organisation Scientifique et Technique du Vol à Voile: The Organisation Scientifique et Technique du Vol à Voile (OSTIV) is a specialized, independent, non-profit organisation affiliated to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).
World Class Soaring Association: Site devoted to the devolpment of the world class glider.

Information

Air Sports International: Presenting a round up of all world air sports events duely recognised by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale .
Alex's Sailplane Directory: Welcome to Alex's Sailplane Directory. The following link houses more than 380 different types of sailplanes and their specifications.
Arnd Wussing Home Page: Arnd Wussing's glider database's and gliding links page.
Cazfry's Soaring Page: A listing of soaring related links.
Daniel Franzén Soaring Page: Soaring (sometimes called gliding) is the art of using air currents to maintain extended flight. On a good day a soaring pilot may fly on these currents for hours.
Frequently Asked Questions About Soaring
Glider Names from Aachen to Zwergreiher: These lists include all the names of different types of glider that I have been able to discover from published sources, and from correspondence with several authorities on the history of gliding.
International Soaring Events: Listing of international soaring events.
Jim Tsillas' PIK-20 Info Page: My intent is for this page to serve as a repository of information on the PIK-20.
Landings Soaring Related Links: Extensive listing of soaring related sites.
Libelles of The World 1 Libelles of The World 2: This page is dedicated to the Libelle series of gliders that helped bring soaring into a new era with fiberglass construction. It has been voted the "most beautiful glider" by groups through the years.
NON-Offical PW5 Homepage: The PW-5 glider is a winner of the World Class Glider Competition organized by Federation Aeronautique International. The competition requirements were simple but safe design and good performances.
Robert Tseng's Soaring Page
Soaring Gallery: The mountain flights pictures have been taken mostly in Southern Alps, from Barcelonnette, Fayence or Saint Auban, Central Spain flights have been done from Fuentemilanos, a well known club located about 70km north from Madrid.
Soaring Information and Sailplane Directory: This WWW Server provides a variety of information about the sport of soaring.
Soaring Servers: A list of soaring servers.
The Soaring Connection: Welcome to The Soaring Connection, home of the World Class Glider
Thirty Thousand Feet - Aviation Links: Thirty Thousand Feet presents aviation related resources including Web pages, mailing lists, newsgroups, press releases from aviation companies, news and general information of all types.
Tost Weak Link Color Codes: B.G.A. winch/auto tow weak links, revised April 1991, from Tost data sheet 2/4/90 with amendment as authorized by B.G.A.
Virtual Thermals: Links to Pilots, Clubs and societies, Weather, Manufacturers, Miscellaneous areas.

Resources

CAL: The program to plan and analyze your soaring.
Cu - Soaring Forecast Made Easy: Cu is a meteo software, written specially for glider-, hangglider and paraglider pilots, who want to be able to understand and predict the meterological conditions for the coming day.
Glider Database: The contents of the glider database have been culled from various sources and are not verifiably correct - for accurate information always consult the most up-to-date version of the appropriate glider manuals.
Karel Termaat's X-Country Soaring Page: I have available free computer programs and databases suitable for flight planning and flight analysis and uploading to flightcomputers and dataloggers like the Zander SR940 and GP940.
Logstar: The Best Way to Log your Flying. Proven PC Flight Logging Systems giving you many advantages over conventional logbooks. Tells you things that your conventional logbook can't!
Soaring Avionics: An overview of several Soaring Management Computers and FAI GPS Loggers, articles and links to their manufacturers or dealers.
Soaring Trader: Welcome to the Soaring Trader. Here you can find and submit classified ads regarding soaring. Gliders, tugs, trailers, parts and accessories.
SFS - The Soaring Simulator: The one and only flight simulation especially for glider pilots with stunningly realistic flight characteristics and shaded 3D graphics!
Soaring Pages: Welcome to Soaring Pages - the FREE advertising site for glider pilots and gliding clubs.
SOAR V3.0: Soar is THE program for managing Gliding Club Flying accounts.
Waypoint+: To be able to upload and download Routes, Tracks, and Waypoints from a Garmin* GPS to a PC, simplifying the processes of creating and editing these data.
Winscore: Winscore uses the standard Microsoft Windows interface styles to give a contest scoring program which is quick to learn, easy to use, and very forgiving of user input errors.

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