Monthly Archives: May 2026
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- May 20, 2026
One of the most useful lessons in cross-country soaring is surprisingly simple: when you get low, stop thinking like a pilot and start thinking like the landscape!
Every soaring pilot eventually faces the same uncomfortable moment. The thermals disappear, the variometer falls silent, and the ground begins to look much closer than expected. One could argue that this is exactly when discipline and observation
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- May 06, 2026
Your morning's flight may have been nothing more than a short circuit, only a few brief minutes aloft, but it carries a significance far greater than its duration. In gliding, it's easy to celebrate the epic cross-country adventures, the record-breaking flights, and the blue-sky saves. Yet some of the most important progress happens in quieter moments - those modest launches that remind us why we keep