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  1. Gaggle Thermalling

    Safely Exiting a Gaggle

    September 07, 2017

    While you are thermalling be predictable. No erratic movements. No fast changes in direction. At the same time, no change so slow that the person behind you cannot see what you intend to do.  When you roll out you want the person behind you to understand you are leaving and not just widening the thermal which they might follow.

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