Flying by the Seat of Your Pants: A Hang Glider Pilot's View of Life [Paperback]

Chris Waugh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2005

Hang glider pilots launch into thin air, find lift in the turbulence, and soar. You can use the same techniques to launch into your future. You can identify opportunities and be ready to take advantage of them. You can soar, too.

This book is your pilot's manual.

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About the Author

Chris Waugh is a motivational speaker, corporate trainer and author. She uses her years of experience flying hang gliders to deliver a fresh perspective on succeeding in a changing world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Alberteen Press (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976335832
• ISBN-13: 978-0976335832
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,995,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chris Waugh is a consultant who lends wings to leaders and teams. She's a keynote speaker, the author of several books, and a hang glider pilot. As a 'flight' instructor of sorts, she improves her clients' ability to navigate turbulence, identify opportunities and exploit change.

Chris knows how to launch into thin air, find lift in the turbulence, and soar above the rest of the flock. She uses that experience to illustrate how you can find opportunities, and be prepared take advantage of them. You can learn to soar - the hang gliding is optional!

Chris has published, "Flying by the Seat of Your Pants," "Updrafts," "Leadership In Change," and "Misty Memories." She is the co-author of "Speaking of Success," along with Ken Blanchard, Jack Canfield and Stephen Covey. She has written articles for magazines and newsletters, and publishes a monthly E-letter, "Vantage Point."

Her motivating keynote presentations stimulate hope and action in her audiences. She uses her experiences in business and in hang gliding to illustrate how to navigate the wild world of work. Yet, she maintains that her techniques are safe to try at home.

Her professional development resources are unique and holistic - much more inclusive than most trainers provide. Your people are involved and inspired to better performance, and they stay current on the important professional skills they need every day. You will see immediate and lasting improvement in communication, teamwork, leadership and service.

Chris also provokes and motivates. She brings perspectives from solid ground, from the edge, and sometimes over the edge. Chris's business background spans thirty years of leadership and management in a variety of industries - banking, tourist attractions, restaurants, retail, manufacturing, services and non-profit organizations.

She has logged hundreds of hours of air time flying hang gliders and is a charter member of the United States Hang Gliding Association.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice little book, but there are many errors, November 5, 2009

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Dave English (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flying by the Seat of Your Pants: A Hang Glider Pilot's View of Life (Paperback)

It's a nice little book, reflections of flying hang gliders and living life. But given such a great subject, the content is a little unoriginal and it never really lifts off. There are some nice quotations and some cute little pictures.

However there are serious mistakes that show a lack of attention to detail -- something every pilot should strive to avoid! Hemingway is credited with a slightly misquoted Ursula K. LeGuin line from 'The Left Hand of Darkness.' Other quotes are not quite exactly as originally written. And there is a huge aerodynamical blunder when she states in words and a diagram that the four forces in glider flight are lift, drag, gravity and momentum. Er mo what? Powered aircraft have thrust, gliders have no thrust. And momentum is most certainly not a force. The force for airspeed acceleration is provided by the forward component of gravity. This is basic stuff, and to have a chapter in a hang glider book titled 'The Forces of Flight' and then get them so wrong shows a fundamental lack of flying knowledge. The author also states that, "I don't know if visualization works" -- well, lots of serious research shows visualization works great for motor coordination tasks, and it is used everyday by aerobatic and competition pilots.

I feel a little bad critizing such a nice little book from what I'm sure is a kind motivational speaker. But it never soars free, and the mistakes and aerodynamic errors are hard to ignore. I hope you find this review helpful.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Painting a word picture, January 2, 2007

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G. Newton (the ocean) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flying by the Seat of Your Pants: A Hang Glider Pilot's View of Life (Paperback)

Flying by the Seat of Your Pants was a great read from start to finish. But, even more important, it is the kind of book you can leave by your bedside and when life, or just the day, isn't doing what you want it too, pick up the book and you'll find something that takes your mind to a different place and perspective.

Ms. Waugh explains the sensations of hang gliding and as you read, it automatically relates to different things in life. I've read some parts several times and each time had another question answered.

I use this book to bring me back to basic principles of what it takes to get through life.

Scattered in each chapter are simple, true sayings that cut through my minds clutter and simplify my thoughts.

To successfully hang glide, you need to prepare and know what you're doing. This book goes through the steps to be a successful hang glider and those steps work to bring success in life.

My copy show signs of being well used. I'll have to replace it soon.