Customer Reviews

Glider Flying Handbook

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The book hits the right topics and has lots of illustrations, but the writing is soulless. This makes some of the explanations hard to understand. The section on basic flight physics, for instance, is incomprehensible. On the other hand, the sections on variometers and total energy systems are quite clear. It's as though the book were a slightly expanded checklist written by several different aparatchiks all of whom lean heavily on government-speak. This is a good study guide for the written exam, but I wouldn't take it in isolation. It needs accompanying books (by Piggot, Stewart, or Langewiesche etc.) to make it complete.

Excellent book on gliding. Concise with the information needed to be safe and a good glider pilot. O would recommend this book whole-heartedly to anyone interested in flying gliders.

Book arrived quickly. I think it's a good first book into sailplanes and flying them. Looks like it does a good job on all the basics. Highly recommend it. My flying experience is about 20 years with hang gliders.

this book should be in every glider pilots libary .
it give you another view of the same information.
well written easy to understand

This is an excellent reference book for glider flying. It thoroughly covers all aspects of information required for the student as well as the advanced glider pilots. The graphics are excellent and go a long way in helping to understand the material. Minor editing errors throughout are anoying. The FAA has published an errata sheet that fixes some but not all of the errors found. That errata sheet was not included with the text. At $16.95 this is a great price but at $28.00 it is too much

Like most of the FAA pubs (this is a Skyhorse reprint), this one is good but it's not complete. There is much more information in glider books from Derek Piggot. And "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewiesche is timeless, even if it was written 70 years ago.

The Skyhorse reprint is first-quality, however: coated stock, excellent photos and illustrations. The previous ASA version was almost twice the price for the same book.

This is the second time I order books at Amazon and they don't arrive at all. They were supposed to arrive at June 4th, and were ordered in May 11th with "Expedited International Shipping".