glider pilot

Private certificates for airplane, helicopter, gyroplane, glider, free balloon and airship.

Includes Commercial airplane, helicopter, gyroplane, glider, free balloon and airship tests.

The most popular flight training manual for powered pilots transitioning to gliders.

This easy to read manual helps train better, safer pilots by making the student pilot an integral part of the flight training program.

Fulfills all FAA flight training requirements from solo through license, to prepare a student for the private glider flight test.

This book will help you answer questions about being a Glider pilot.

Provides you with a clear picture of the decision-making skills and flight maneuvers you must master to become a competent soaring pilot.

Helps you prepare for your Practical Test by providing you with sample questions and answers, tips, and suggestions on how to prepare.

Helps you prepare for your Practical Test by providing you with sample questions and answers, tips, and suggestions on how to prepare.

Helps you prepare for your Practical Test by providing you with sample questions and answers, tips, and suggestions on how to prepare.

Prepare for your glider flight review or checkout. Find hundreds of tips and suggestions.

Makes it easy for you to learn the fundamentals of glider performance polar analysis and speed-to-fly decision making.

A comprehensive, user-friendly guide to flying single seat gliders.

Teaches you where and how to search for thermals, how they are structured, and how to find the best lift in thermals

This book makes the A, B, and C badges more accessible than ever before.

Loads of tips and advice help you to understand and master every task required of you.

A badge as worthwhile as the Silver Badge should be easily accessed by all soaring pilots and this book makes it more accessible than ever before.

Covers the common causes of the large majority of serious accidents and shows you how to help yourself, and help your soaring friends, to avoid them.

Just about everything that you ever wanted to know about thermals.

This towpilot manual is a compilation of aerotow procedures used in the USA.

Mastering the aerotow is one of the more challenging tasks that the soaring newcomer must acquire.

An essential book for all pilots who aspire to fly cross country safely, efficiently, and without fear.

Safe Altitude profiles, Go-Ahead points, thermaling techniques, final glide considerations, height bands, speed-to-fly, landing considerations…

Teaches the techniques and equipment needed to make mountain wave flights safely.

How to deal with the gestalt of landouts: The heightened tensions and emotions, denial, and the effect of previous conditioning.

Aimed at the power pilot who flies anything from Light Sport Aircraft to Bell Jet Rangers to Boeing Dreamliners and who wants to add soaring.

The Practical Test Standards are a guide for students, instructors, and FAA-designated examiners to know what is expected of pilots in a checkride.

FAA publication for glider pilots

Includes complete flight training syllabus/checklist, ABC & Bronze badge requirements, and FAA Instructor endorsements statements.