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optimal cruising speed

  1. Speed to Fly

    Cruising Speed

    June 03, 2021

    Typically when we start with our cross-country flying, we feel like we need to take every thermal, this habit is often a hard one to break. Even pilots who are quite experienced still want to stop and climb in thermals that are less than optimum. We have to be selective when it comes to increasing our overall achieved cross-country speeds. Take the below graph, it’s for a typical 15m ballasted racing

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