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  1. Human Factors

    Mental Game of Soaring - Part 1

    September 29, 2022

    Ours is a technical and scientific sport that draws heavily from meteorology, aerodynamics, electronics, and mathematics.  As students and participants in the sport, we become technician/consumers who look outward to the next OSTIV paper, the newest flight computer, the latest variometer advance, the best weather predictive program, and other new technical tools to help us. But soaring also remains

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