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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 author, Martin Simons: writes
The book is of interest to historians of aviation, glider pilots and those who build and fly radio controlled model sailplanes. Until this book was published there was no readily available source of information or accurate scale drawings of the many different types of glider and sailplanes produced by Slingsby, the well known firm based in Yorkshire. The whole range from the Type 1 'British Falcon' to the last sailplane produced, the Type 65 'Vega', is covered. Each is illustrated with a highly accurate scale drawing, based on workshop plans. There are many photographs, technical details and a text explaining the main features of each design, its successes and/or failures, and production numbers. The general background to the foundation of the company in 1931 in Scarborough, its move to Kirby Moorside prior to the outbreak of World War 2, the wartime work, and finally the reasons why Slingsbys gave up glider production after 1982 are outlined. The author, an active sailplane pilot and modeller, has flown many of the types described here

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.

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