Monthly Archives: April 2017

So you want to sell your glider to make room for the new HpH Twin Shark. The first thing is taking-off the rose-colored glasses you have been using when viewing your glider. By now you are used to those sweat stains on the interior, however it is not going to be as attractive to a potential

The sailplane generally climbs better at a slightly slower speed and shallower bank angle then it does at high speed and steep bank angle.

Unless you are Ron Tabery you cannot float around at a shallow bank angle with one wingtip in the thermal and climb. I have tried repeatedly to follow and just watched him climb away. So it is going to require a good bank angle, lets say between 30-45 degrees.

I am not referring to flying a task in wave at a mountain site where you would plan to race in wave. Let's start by thinking about it from a pre-start and work our way around the course.

In a previous article I talked about recognizing wave on task and how I used it to get the last climb of the day and made it home,

When I think ridge racing I think Mifflin PA. The first two times I flew there it was with local pilot Mike Robison in his Nimbus 3DM. We were dry but lugging an Austrian beauty behind the cockpit. As we cruised on the ridge we were generally the fastest.

What I did learn from this is that no matter how much faster we were the time was lost in the transitions. We had a few times where we pushed