Gliders / Soaring

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

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

Contains what you need to improve your soaring performance in ridge, wave, and convergence lift.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The walkalong gliders in this book are designed to let you actually pilot them as you push them along on a wave of air.

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