Glider Pilot Training

ASA Private Pilot Test Prep Book

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

$19.95
NOW $16.25

ASA Commercial Pilot Test Prep Book

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

$24.95
NOW $19.95

Practical Test Standards: Sport Pilot

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

$9.95
NOW $8.45

FAA Glider Flying Handbook

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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.

$24.95
NOW $21.50

The Art of Thermaling

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

$10.95
NOW $9.95

Learning to Fly Gliders

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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.

$19.95
NOW $17.95

Glider Polars and Speed-to-Fly

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

$7.95
NOW $7.15

Private Pilot Glider Checkride

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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.

$13.95
NOW $12.50

Breaking the Apron Strings: Soaring Cross Country

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

$12.95
NOW $11.75

Everybody's First Gliding Book

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

$14.95
NOW $13.50

Commercial Pilot Glider Checkride

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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.

$14.95
NOW $13.50

Power Pilot's Guide to Soaring

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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.

$14.95
NOW $13.50

Riding On Air: Ridge, Wave, & Convergence Lift

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

$22.95
NOW $19.95

Towpilot Manual

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

$11.95
NOW $10.75

Thermals

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

$18.95
NOW $17.00

Transition to Single Seat Gliders

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

$8.95
NOW $8.00

Glider BFR and Spring Checkout

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

$8.95
NOW $8.00

Practical Wave Flying

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

$16.95
NOW $15.25

Glider Flight Instructor Checkride

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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.

$14.95
NOW $13.50

End of the Line: Glider Pilot Aerotow Manual

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

$11.95
NOW $10.75

Badge Soaring: The Bronze Badge

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

$9.95
NOW $8.95

Cross Country Manual for Glider Pilots

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

$16.95
NOW $15.25

Landing Out: The Final Four Minutes

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

$11.95
NOW $10.75

The Soaring Pilot's Manual

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

$36.95
NOW $31.95