A guide to the glider or soaring pilot on mountain wave flying. Includes information on mountain wave formation and prediction, oxygen equipment and high altitude flying, preflight preparation, flying mountain wave, and cross country flight in mountain wave.
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Practical Wave Flying is the only book available on mountain wave flying for glider pilots.
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This book was written to fill the gap in a soaring pilot's education. Until Practical Wave Flying, there was no one source a pilot could go to that would help him or her understand how to fly mountain wave.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A very good primer, makes you want head on up right away.,
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This review is from: Practical Wave Flying (Paperback)
The book doesn't try to be the last word on wave soaring, just the opposite, it's stated pupose is to be a good introduction to it. At that, it suceeds very well. Each chapter has footnotes referring to other books and magazine articles,( which is why I dialed up Amazon.com). One thought: do not show up at a wave camp with no knowledge whatsoever of wave other than it's cold and you need oxygen and you can go very high. This book is filled with all kinds of information: tips, hints, warnings, diagrams, pictures, descriptions, what to wear, what to eat, what to expect, what to watch out for. All kinds of stuff, enough so you want to book a reservation and get the heck up there. A very fast read with almost no ' wings of angels' type prose, just a straight-ahead approach, I strongly recomend it for novice wave pilots.
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