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...he and the other pilots were going to be flying about 15km (by air) from us. I was going to fly over to see them about 2pm, but it was big thermal weather for them. So, L...- You know David Iam all into soaring and often just didn't understand why I couldn't thermal my red back.but 45degrees pitch neg in vertical sink in big boomer going over the falls do...
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...n a soaring trike. But think summer would be better time. Think an enclosed cockpit was needed for that flight. Hey, I did some thermal soaring last weekend at the F...Comment on "great video to show how much fun ridge soaring can be"
...el comsumption. We had 5 liters of fuel only and we must to fly for a longest time and we must return and landed on airport. In this time was not thermal, but it was windy in this tim...- ...itself but the convection between the hot sand and the cooler water.. thermals as well at low agl can do th...end one of those same pilots got in the down cycle of a breaking thermal and spiraled into the ground....
- ...y. The first test flights were in big midday thermals and I must say this baby fle...and gorilla grip on the bar in the biggest of thermals he showed me how he personal...rprise the wing sliced nicely through the big thermals. This new type of finger han...
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...you could hope for is a good sled ride.My best choice of thermalling would be picking up some late afternoon thermal lift when you know that the t...ridgelift condition would be awesome.but the big boomer thermals i remember in the high...- ...short with power lines at the end, getting low over the sugar cane helps to settle the aircraft sooner (there is less wind speed at low level and thermal activity) and cutting the pow...
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......but still I havent Money for it :) I know two pilots which used their BRS. One was very experiedced pilot and he was gliding-soaring a big thermal cloud. Then he got on left wi...
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Video of me thermalling my friends Airborne T-Lite. The t-lite is designed as a thermalling trike, and I found it ver...ngly good, and the wing is intuitive and easy to thermal, with minimal high-siding. Th...