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

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

Full-color manual for preparing for glider category ratings and for currently certificated glider pilots who wish to improve their knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Advances the reader from elementary flying to confident soaring by clearly and precisely explaining the basic soaring mechanisms and techniques.

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