variometer
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April 18, 2024
If you’ve ever watched a glider gracefully manoeuvre through the sky, or you’ve just started your life’s soaring adventure you might wonder how they or we manage to stay aloft for so long without an engine. One of the key tools that we use to help us as glider pilots achieve this beautiful feat, is called a variometer. In this article, I want to describe in simple terms how this clever
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February 03, 2022
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