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Accurate instrument calibration can make a significant difference in both your personal flying enjoyment and competition performance. If you have accurate instruments, it's easier to identify areas of lift, obtain more accurate final glide figures, and better target speeds for Macready, among other benefits. With that in mind, I recently conducted a high tow to test my Ventus 3's instruments, refine

Ask G; "My variometer doesn't seem to work correctly.  How do I check the system?    Maybe the newest pressure transducer variometers with wind gust algorithms have better results?" 

Go back to basics for a moment: remember that a pilot should be able to discriminate between going up because he's in lift, and going up because he's pulled the stick back. That's the point of the Total energy

Welcome to the new series of newsletter articles by the author of The Soaring Engine books, G Dale.  This series is titled "Ask G" takes your questions directly to G for answers to be published in a future article.  What's your question?  Curious about soaring weather?  Glider fundamentals? How does a particular instrument work?  Sailplane preparation?  Something else?  Let us know, send