The Art of Thermaling
...Made Easy!
A User-Friendly Guide to Finding and Using Thermals and Thermal
Streets
Author: Bob Wander
From Bob Wander's "Gliding ...Made Easy" series
Paperback, many illustrations and black and white photos, 56 pages
Dimensions: 8.31 x 11.0 inches
(211 x 280 mm)
Table of Contents
About the Author
Guaranteed to make you a better soaring
pilot. Finding, entering, centering, and leaving thermals. Finding and
using thermal streets. Weather observation techniques. Thermal
prediction. The most complete treatment of thermaling and thermaling
decision-making in print. If you are not getting the most out of
thermaling, you can keep on buying extra aerotow launches...or you can
buy and read this inexpensive but comprehensive book and discover how to
get the most out of thermals.
Author's Notes
When we soar, we use our wits, our experience, and our powers of
observation to gain height in our motorless aircraft. We come as close
as ever we will to being as free as a bird. The exhilaration of
skillfully exploiting solar energy and using it to soar as long or as
high or as fast as we want is the essence of the sport of soaring.
Climbing in thermals is part science, part art. Many new soaring pilots
have considerable trouble keeping their glider in the air because they
don't understand thermaling very well. Some of them even leave the sport
in frustration after a season or two, because they despair of ever
learning how to keep the glider up in the air. They see other pilots
thermaling up and away, eventually disappearing over the horizon, but
find themselves making numerous unsatisfactory short flights, falling
out of the sky even as the pundits climb away in thermals and disappear
for hours at a time. Frustrating!
Perhaps this has happened to you. If so, don't despair! I have good
news: the fundamentals of thermaling are not particularly complicated or
even very difficult. But thermaling sometimes seems difficult or
complicated because we haven't studied thermaling in a systematic way.
This book makes thermals easy to understand and to exploit. When you are
done with this book, you will know where and how to search for thermals,
how thermals are structured, what thermal streets are, and how to search
out and center the best lift in thermals. You will know when it is time
to leave a thermal and find another. You will have the mental tools you
need to systematically search out and use the best lift. You will know
how to keep your glider in the air for as long as there are thermals to
support you. And with your new skills, you will be ready to enter the
worlds of cross country flying, Badge flying, or competitive flying.
Safe Soaring,
Bob Wander |
 
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