Monthly Archives: November 2016

You see a hill ahead, as you approach the bottom of it you downshift to keep the RPM high so you can maintain your speed up the hill. You do not wait until you are rapidly slowing down and the accelerator is floored before downshifting.

Do you shift gears while soaring? You can see a dissipating sky ahead, you can stop and take a weaker climb now, so you can avoid an even weaker climb ahead

When can I leave? To thermal is to admit defeat. At least that it is the motto I use when flying Open Class. Club Class is a little different.

I am not making any headway, granted the higher I climb the farther I can glide so it is important, it will help soon but at the moment... I am pretty antsy about getting going again. This is until I started team flying with Sean and he

We have all heard about the 30-degree rule. I also talked about Ingo Renner (Ingo Renner's Discus was specially made without ailerons, he chooses to climb straight ahead.) being able to just drive his sailplanes straight on course. Then Dale Bush has his motto about following clouds...

Let's think more about the 30-degree rule because many of us try and use it religiously. This hurt me big