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  • Glider Operations for the Powered Pilot

    Roy Forsstrom, FAASTeam Safety Representative|Sep 1, 2017

    With the soaring season well underway, upper Midwest pilots are working to improve their skills to safely fly their gliders longer and farther. As a long-time glider pilot, I often meet pilots who are surprised to learn gliders do more than glide. Pilots find and work thermals to climb thousands of feet (often to near cloud base), then depart on a 100 or 200 km out-and-back, or triangle flight, stopping at thermals along the way to "refuel." Not all glider pilots fly cross-country. Many are... Full story

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