Monthly Archives: July 2018
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- July 25, 2018
We have had a string of good weather and a few students were trying to get a cross-country flight in before I headed off to the Worlds. We also had clouds which is a rarity for us, it is much easier to play connect the dots when you can see them. The advantage is it makes it much easier to find the sheerline. The sheerline is not a straight line of lift, it is a wondering path to follow through the
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- July 18, 2018
Paper Maps, Pre-flight planning, and Rules of thumb can catch simple mistakes.
I went cross-country with a student last week in the mighty Grob 103; we covered about 100km. The student (actually, he has a license) has been very reluctant to go cross-country in his own glider. We looked at the weather, and he had been watching SkySight for a few days. The forecast wasn’t very promising, but we talked
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- July 11, 2018
My first consideration if I want to take a restart. How long will it take? Restarting can cost you more time than you are expecting. Not only do you need to get back to the line, but you need to get high enough to start again. Which means finding a thermal that is in close proximity to your start. So just getting 5 miles back to the line won’t help because you need to find a thermal near the line
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- July 04, 2018
Lack of Communication
In the airshow world this concern was mostly from the pilot not communicating with others or the show not communicating with the performers. If there is a problem with the equipment or person (remember the acronym IMSAFE), it has to be clearly communicated what is going on. This happened at a flying job, where a normally whiny pilot, was doing his normal complaining when this