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| Synopsis
As the official manual of the world famous British Gliding Association, this book is compulsory reading for all pilots and instructors. Highly illustrated and designed to be user-friendly, it guides the user through a comprehensive range of key subjects. 'Must-have' information is highlighted which, together with the less critical material, provides an authoritative and cutting-edge resource which can be studied or dipped into as required. Making complex topics comprehensible and including 400 illustrations to enhance the explanatory material, this is the manual of gliding.
Binding: Paperboards
Published: 30 November 2001
ISBN: 0713659475 |
Beginning Gliding
Derek Piggot 
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This manual is intended for budding and improving glider pilots and as a resource for gliding instructors. It views the whole process from the perspective of a beginner tackling all the difficulties and concerns experienced by them head on, including the fundamentals of gliding, how to learn them and how they should be taught. It includes a new chapter on soaring.
Paperback - 223 pages (January 2000)
A & C Black; ISBN: 071364155X |
Gliding
Derek Piggott MBE Our Price: £15.99
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This revised edition includes new material on such aspects of gliding as circuit procedures, turns, launches and gliding safety, as well as an additional chapter on emergency parachuting.
Paperback - 321 pages (February 1997)
A & C Black; ISBN: 0713643803 |
Gliding Safety
Derek Piggott MBE List Price: £14.99
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This guide to gliding safety by renowned gliding instructor Derek Piggot, explains the move away from the "square" circuit pattern, a move which promises to eliminate many accidents caused by pilots making a rigid circuit instead of being more flexible.
Paperback - 207 pages (31 March, 1998)
A & C Black; ISBN: 0713648538
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Understanding Flying Weather
Derek Piggott List Price: £9.99
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This book explains how to recognize good and hazardous flying weather by looking at the causes and effects of atmospheric phenomena. These include air masses, high and low pressure areas, cloud formations, fronts, thermals, inversions and anti-cyclones. For those preparing for the Bronze "C" award or for one of the Private Pilot's Licence examinations there is a useful appendix with revision questions and answers. Derek Piggott is the author of a number of well-known books on gliding and is a gliding expert.
Paperback - 96 pages (30 October, 1996)
A & C Black; ISBN: 0713643463
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The Handbook of Glider Aerobatics
Mike Woollard, Peter Mallinson List Price: £20.00
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This text provides a reference point for use in conjunction with aerobatic instruction. It aims to help provide an understanding of the important subjects that are essential for safe and successful aerobatic flying.
Hardcover - 124 pages (31 May, 1999)
Airlife Publishing; ISBN: 1840371102 |
Know the Game: Gliding
Ann Welch, British Gliding Association 
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This guide combines practical text with photographs and diagrams as an introduction to the sport. Written with the backing of the gliding governing body, it provides details of the rules and equipment needed.
Paperback - 48 pages (October 1994)
A & C Black; ISBN: 0713638184
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Soaring (First Book)
Phyllis Jean Perry 
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Reading level: Ages 9-12
School & Library Binding - 64 pages (April 1997)
Franklin Watts; ISBN: 0531202585
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Cloud Dancing : Your Introduction to Gliding and Motorless Flight
Robert F. Whelan 
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Cloud Dancing: Your Introduction To Gliding And Motorless Flight is a primer for the lay person who is interested in pursuing a highly individual sport that is both exhilarating and easy to learn. Cloud Dancing provides the ultimate in personal freedom -- soaring. Robert Whelan is an aerospace engineer and veteran glider enthusiast who provides a personal, experienced insight into what a budding glider pilot can expect during initial flights, while working toward FAA licensure, when engaging in soaring competitions, and from the soaring community as a whole. An unusual book for an unusual, and ever growing, sport.
Paperback (November 1995)
Rainbow Publishing; ISBN: 1568250258 |
The Paths of Soaring Flight
F.G. Irving
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This book is concerned with the sport of soaring, and mainly with the mathematical basis of sailplane design and operation. It does not tell the beginner how to fly, but it will give an experienced pilot some background, with historical notes showing how ideas have evolved and could develop in the future. Some of the material is taken from OSTIV (Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale de Vol a Viole) publications and from "Technical Soaring", neither of which is readily available to the general public, including papers by the author and others. Extensive references are provided in each chapter.
Hardcover - 200 pages (1997)
Imperial College Press; ISBN: 1860940552 |
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flying and Gliding (Sports (Celebrity/Spectator))
Bill Lane, Azriela Jaffe 
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| Paperback - 400 pages (March 2000)
Alpha Books; ISBN: 0028638859 |
INSTANT WEATHER FORECASTING
Alan Watts 
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Paperback - 64 pages (July 2000)
A&C BLACK; ISBN: 0713654309
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Meteorology and Flight
Tom Bradbury List Price: £15.99
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Intended for pilots of sailplanes, microlights, hang gliders and balloons, this resource contains practical advice and information on both large- and small-scale weather systems. It covers the development of depressions and anticyclones, fronts, convection, cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds, waves, wave flow and how to fly in waves, local winds, airflow over ridges and mountains, visibility, weather maps and forecasting, METAR and TAF reports and MetFAX services.
Paperback - 192 pages (March 2000)
A & C Black; ISBN: 0713642262
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A Glider Pilot Bold ...
Wally Kahn 
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Walter Kahn's love affair with gliding started in 1945 and his book tells many amusing stories about the people he has met over the past fifty-odd years. Tales of those men and women in their flying machines, the songs they love to sing and events leading to the glider movement as it is in this country today are faithfully recorded, supplemented by a list of gliding books published in the United Kingdom.
Paperback (10 October, 1998)
Jardine Publishers; ISBN: 0953420000
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Adventures of a Half-baked Chicken-hearted Granny Glider Pilot
Mary Meagher Our Price: £5.95
| Paperback (October 1985)
Ava Book Co; ISBN: 0951056808 |
Daughter of the Air : Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort
Rob Simbeck 
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| A reader from Waukesha, Wisconsin , 30 July, 1999
Grander than fiction
Simbeck has gathered all the facts--people, places, events--and presented them in a masterfully told story. The life of Cornelia Fort would make excellent fiction. The author has chosen to portray her in a clear, honest way which both draws her near, and amplifies the larger-than-life experiences that were hers. Required reading for historians, feminists and pilots. A joy for everyone. Hardcover - 264 pages (May 1999)
Grove Press; ISBN: 0871136880
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Sailplanes by Schweizer
Martin Simons, Paul A Schweizer List Price: £39.95
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This history of Schweizer sailplanes includes a chapter on each of the 22 different glider types built by the Schweizers. The book explains how each type was developed and gives details of its construction, special features, how it flew and any outstanding flights made by each type.
Hardcover - 224 pages (December 1998)
Airlife Publishing; ISBN: 184037022X |
Slingsby Sailplanes
Martin Simons List Price: £39.95
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This work describes every Slingsby sailplane and glider from the British Falcon of 1931 to the last motorless aircraft produced - the Vega. Each type is illustrated with a full-page three-view drawing, with photographs and text outlining the background to the design. The drawings are based on the original workshop plans. Slingsby was for 40 years the main, and for most of the time only, producer of gliders and sailplanes in Britain. The company was one of the first to use glass-fibre reinforced plastics in production aircraft as early as 1953 and carbon-fibre composite materials for main structural members. |
The History of the Glider Pilot Regiment
Claude Smith, Alan Richards (Illustrator) US List Price: $31.95
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| Hardcover - 200 pages (June 1992)
Combined Books; ISBN: 0850523265
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VIDEO SECTIONAir Battle: History Of The Dogfight (aka Air Battle - Dawn Of The Dogfight) (1990)
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