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  1. Cross Country

    Lead and Follow

    August 25, 2021

    We all love flying around with our mates, but flying around with a coach (who can also be a mate!) in a lead-and-follow exercise is a fabulous learning experience.  In Australia, we used to run an annual ‘teams challenge’ coaching event, which notably had one coach assigned to no more than three followers in comparative gliders.  There’d be some lose scoring to motivate, but the focus was

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