Monthly Archives: August 2021

We all love flying around with our mates, but flying around with a coach (who can also be a mate!) in a lead-and-follow exercise is a fabulous learning experience.  In Australia, we used to run an annual ‘teams challenge’ coaching event, which notably had one coach assigned to no more than three followers in comparative gliders.  There’d be some lose scoring to motivate, but the focus was

When soaring in the blue it’s time to develop your maximum sensitivity to what the glider is experiencing and make subtle changes of direction toward the areas that make a wing lift. While you will generally fly a straight course, the glider will always want to fly away from thermals so if you find one wing lifting slightly make a minor course correction toward the area that made it rise. Resist the

When you learn to fly, you are required to make a note of your flying hours in a logbook alongside a description of some sort,  in order to have a record of your experience.  This is for both you and the next instructor to see where you’re at.  Invariably

I got some positive feedback from my article on flying under overcast areas so I thought a good progression would be a similar article on flying in blue areas. There is not a lot written on the subject but it is something we occasionally must do - either to get home across a large cloudless area or to reach a good cloud field or street on course. And, on some very dry days, we must fly without clouds