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Read this comparison of the most popular U.S. flight training manuals. |
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Aero Tow Emergencies (Knauff)
Required reading for anyone getting a tow at Ridge Soaring Gliderport. You will be amazed at the tow emergencies you never thought of. |
K&G |
| The Art and Technique of Soaring (Wolters) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Basic Guide to Soaring (Fillingham) | Amazon.com |
| Beginning Gliding (Piggott) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk ABPE AE BGA GFA |
| Cloud Dancing: Your Introduction to Gliding and Motorless Flight (Whelan, et al) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Complete Idiot's Guide to Flying and Gliding (Lane, Jaffe, Moyer, King) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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The Complete Soaring Guide (Ann Welch)
This small, hardcover book is a great gift for someone interested in soaring. It's an easy read and is well illustrated with many interesting pictures. -- Jim Hendrix |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk GFA |
| Discover Soaring: Transition to Gliders - Interactive CD-ROM | SSA |
| Discover Soaring: Transition to Gliders - VHS | SSA |
| End of the Line: Glider Pilot Aerotow Manual (Shain) | BW SSA |
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Flying Sailplanes: A Practical Training Manual (Reichmann)
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Amazon.com GFA |
| Free as a Bird (Wills) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Glider Basics from First Flight to Solo (Knauff) (hardcover)
This is the first of Tom Knauff's excellent texts for new soaring pilots, preceding After Solo. ... (Review) |
Amazon.com |
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Glider Basics from First Flight to Solo (Knauff) (paperback)
This is the first of Tom Knauff's excellent texts for new soaring pilots, preceding After Solo. ... (Review) |
Amazon.com K&G WMS |
| Gliding from Passenger to Pilot (Longland) | BGA |
| Go Fly a Sailplane: An Introduction to Soaring (Morrow) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Going Solo: A Simple Guide to Soaring (Piggott) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk ABPE |
| Ground Launches (Piggott) | ABPE BGA K&G |
| Half Mile Up Without an Engine: The Essentials, The Excitement of Sailplanes and Soaring (Gannon) | Amazon.com |
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Joy of Soaring: A Training Manual (Conway)
This is a good introduction to soaring and a delight to read; but it isn't thorough enough for use as a training manual. If you're learning to fly, you need to start with something like Glider Basics from First Flight to Solo or Learning to Fly Gliders. |
Amazon.com BW K&G SSA |
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Know the Game: Gliding (Ann Welch) This is an excellent introduction for anyone who is fascinated by the idea of flying without engine power or who is seriously considering taking up gliding. This book contains information on joining a club and arranging lessons, plus sections on ground handling, launching the glider, control in the air and landing. There is also expert advice on soaring, cross-country flights, navigation and safety. Produced in collaboration with the British Gliding Association |
Amazon.co.uk AE BGA |
| Learning to Fly Gliders (Wander) | BW SSA WMS |
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Modern Elementary Gliding (BGA)
The classic introduction to gliding. |
AE BGA GFA |
| Modern Soaring Dictionary | GFA |
| Presolo Written Test - AC 61-101 | SSF |
| Sailplanes and Soaring: The Beginner's Lift into Discovering the Wonders and World of Silent Flight (Mrazek) | Amazon.com |
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See How It Flies
Very well written introduction to the fundamentals of flight. Excellent graphics and organization. |
Denker |
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Soaring (Perry) An introduction to soaring for upper-elementary-school and early-middle-school readers. |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Soaring: The Sport of Flying Sailplanes (Carter) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Soaring: Where Hawks and Eagles Fly (Coombs) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| The World of Silent Flight (Wolters) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Transition To Gliders (Knauff) | K&G |
| Transition to Single Seat Gliders...Made Easy! (Wander) | BW SSA WMS |
| Wing Runner Course (SSF) | SSF |
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After Solo (Knauff)
This is the second of Tom Knauff's excellent texts for new soaring pilots, following Glider Basics: from First Flight to Solo. ... (Review) |
Amazon.com K&G WMS |
| The Art of Thermaling...Made Easy! (Wander) | BW SSA |
| Derek Piggott on Gliding (Piggott) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk ABPE |
| Glider Pilot (Champion) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Glider Pilot and Flight Instructor Practical Test Guide (Burch)
Written by Jim Burch to aid glider pilots and flight instructors prepare for their practical tests to obtain pilot or flight instructor ratings, this book contains explanations and suggestions which one pilot examiner has found effective in obtaining the knowledge and skills necessary to become a competent glider pilot. This book is cross referenced to the FAA Private and Commercial Glider Pilot and Flight Instructor Practical Test Standards. |
Burch |
| Glider Polars and Speed to Fly...Made Easy! (Wander) | BW SSA |
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Gliding: A Handbook on Soaring Flight (Piggott) (hardcover)
Now in it's eighth edition, this is the time-honored, British training manual by the Derek Piggott. ... (Review) |
Amazon.com BGA GFA |
| Gliding: A Handbook on Soaring Flight (Piggott) (paperback) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk ABPE WMS AE BGA GFA |
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Gliding: The British Gliding Association Manual (BGA)
The BGA Gliding Manual was originally intended to give instructors a general understanding of how and why gliders work. However, there is much to learn in this book for any glider pilot. Topics covered range from why gliders fly to cross-country techniques, and there are nearly 400 illustrations to compliment the text. |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk BGA |
| Gliding, Soaring, and Skysailing (Smith) | Amazon.com |
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How To Fly Gliders and Pass FAA Tests - InteractiveCD (Burch)
This interactive CD contains information needed to pass glider Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot, and Flight Instructor FAA knowledge and practical tests. Its eleven chapters cover all subjects tested by the FAA and additional information serious glider pilots will want to know. It is illustrated with animated graphics to enhance understanding of concepts some find difficult. |
Burch |
| Modern Soaring Guide (Bowers) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Navigating with GPS (Ann Welch and Bill Scull) | BGA |
| Off Field Landings (Knauff) | BW K&G |
| Practice FAA Written Exams Online | Webexams.com |
Private Glider Pilot Book Kit (Knauff)
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K&G |
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Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Langewiesche)
The all-time greatest aviation book, in my opinion, is Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche. This one is a definite must read for soaring, as well as power, pilots. It's still in print after 58 years, so Mr. Langewiesche must have gotten it right. ... (Review) |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk K&G |
| Stick & Rudder Classics, Box Set (Langewiesche) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Top Ten Ways to Fail a Practical Test (Burch)
Learn the top ten reasons applicants fail glider pilot practical tests and view online lessons on the right ways to fly. |
Burch |
| Understanding Aeronautical Charts (Lankford) | K&G |
| Understanding Gliding (Piggott) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk AE ABPE BGA GFA K&G |
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After All (Seibels) Cross-country and competition flying. |
K&G SSA |
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Breaking The Apron Strings: Soaring Cross Country (Petmecky)
Learn to break away from your home gliderport and fly efficiently and safely cross country. Phil Petmecky is a longtime glider flight instructor and FAA Designated Examiner with more than 29,000 glider flights in his log book. A Gliding Mentor Series book. |
BW SSA |
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Cross Country Manual for Glider Pilots (Carswell)
A very complete dual training program for cross country glider flight. Dean Carswell is the SSA's designated Chief Master Instructor. A Gliding Mentor Series book. |
BW SSA |
| Cross Country Soaring (Reichmann) | Amazon.com BW BGA GFA K&G SSA |
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Cross-country Soaring Techniques (Canadian Advanced Soaring)
A collection of articles on how to fly cross-country. |
CAS |
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Dynamic Soaring
Albatrosses fly for hours, maybe even days, by grabbing energy from wind. Also described in Reichmann's Cross Country Soaring. |
Wake Forest University |
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Exploring the Monster
A detailed book about mountain lee waves. |
BGA |
| Flying Faster and Further - Part 1 (Maurie Bradney) | GFA |
| Flying Faster and Further - Part 2 (Maurie Bradney) | GFA |
| The Glider Pilot's Manual (Stewart) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk AE BGA K&G SSA |
| The Handbook of Glider Aerobatics (Mallinson & Woollard) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk AE BGA |
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Optimization of Glides for Constant Wind Fields and Course Headings (S. A. Jenkins, J. Wasyl)
A technical document on flying optimally in wave fields. Not for reprint without permission of authors. |
Title Page | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |
| Pilot Transition Course For Self-launching Or Powered Sailplanes (Motorgliders) - AC 61-94 | SSF |
| Powered Sailplanes Manual | GFA |
| Practical Wave Flying (Second Edition) (Palmer) | Amazon.com GFA |
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Practical Wave Flying (Third Edition) (Palmer)
An excellent guide to flying in mountain wave. Mark Palmer spent many years exploring and teaching mountain wave flying techniques at the Black Forest Gliderport. A Gliding Mentor Series book. |
BW |
| Ridge Soaring The Bald Eagle Ridge (Knauff) | K&G |
| Sailplane Aerobatics (Horvath) | K&G GFA SSA |
| Self Launch: Retractable Engine Sailplanes (Williams) | SSA |
| New Soaring Pilot (Welch and Irving) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk K&G |
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The Soaring Pilot's Manual (Stewart)
Following the great success of the Glider Pilots Manual Ken Stewart has now written this sequel which advances the reader from elementary flying to becoming a confident soaring pilot. |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk BGA |
| Stalking the Mountain Wave (Weiss) | K&G |
| Theory of Cross Country Gliding (Edwards) | BGA |
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Wave Soaring
Experience wave soaring through interactive graphics and text. |
National Geographic |
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Winch Launching Manual
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GFA |
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Aero Tow Emergencies (Knauff)
Required reading for anyone getting a tow at Ridge Soaring Gliderport. You will be amazed at the tow emergencies you never thought of. |
K&G |
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Aerotowing Manual
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GFA |
| Towpilot Manual (Compton) | BW SSA |
| Tow Pilot Course (SSF & CAP) | SSF |
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| Aviation Instructor’s Handbook (FAA) | K&G SSA |
| Beginning Coaching Level 1 (Australian Coaching Council) | GFA |
| Better Coaching - Advanced Coaching | GFA |
| Glider Flight Instructor Manual (Knauff) | K&G |
| A Glider Flight Instructors Guide (Paul Moggach) | Paul Moggach |
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Gliding: The British Gliding Association Manual (BGA)
The BGA Gliding Manual was originally intended to give instructors a general understanding of how and why gliders work. However, there is much to learn in this book for any glider pilot. Topics covered range from why gliders fly to cross-country techniques, and there are nearly 400 illustrations to compliment the text. |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk BGA |
| Instructor's HandBook | BGA GFA |
| Master Instructor Cross-Country Program: Program Guide (SSF) | SSF |
| Master Instructor Cross-Country Program: Instructor Supplement (SSF) | SSF |
| Master Instructor Cross-Country Program: Cross-Country Handbook (SSF) | SSF |
| Motor Gliders For Glider Pilot Training (Piggott) | ABPE K&G SSA |
| Motor Glider Instruction (Audio Cassette) (Piggott) | SSA |
| Teaching Cross Country Soaring | K&G |
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| Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA) | SSA |
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Glider Flying Handbook (FAA) A technical manual for pilots who are preparing for their glider rating, also for certificated glider pilots to brush up on their knowledge. |
SSA WMS |
| British Gliders and Sailplanes, 1922-1970 (Ellison) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| The Modern Soaring Dictionary (Roake, Phillips) | GFA |
| Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk K&G SSA |
| Sailplane Directory (SSA) | SSA |
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SSA Soaring Flight Manual (SSA)
This is a good reference and refresher, but it's too brief for use as a training manual. If you're learning to fly, you need to start with something like Glider Basics from First Flight to Solo or Learning to Fly Gliders. |
BW SSA WMS |
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