The Art and Technique of Soaring

by Richard A. Wolters

Drawings, photographs, and practical instructions offer the novice guidelines in operating sailplanes, revealing the hazards and challenges of this sport This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070715602
• ISBN13: 9780070715608
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Out-of-print but the best training manual

I learned to soar in the 70s when Carle Conway's "Joy of Soaring" was the most widely used training manual. I haven't seen the more recent editions of the Conway manual but have recently re-read the first edition plus Derek Piggott's "Beginning Gliding" (1995 Ed.) I suggest that Wolters' is superior to both. No single manual contains everything one might want to know so perhaps study a few but buy this out-of-print book used. It gives best overview and explanations and is a very pleasant read.

Wonderful book on soaring.....too bad it's out of print

This is a very informative book on soaring. A great intro to the sport and filled with amazing pictures. It's a good resource for begining sailplane pilots. It also has good information about mountain waves and other non-thermal sources of lift. Learn about a sport too good for kings. I also recommed exploring the monster a great book about mountain waves and the video"Windborn" which you can get from the ssa office.Soaring is awesome!