...ed around, frequently correcting my approach altitude due to gusts and thermals with power and pitch. T...1. Area forecast: VRB/15 2000ft. A sign of unstable air - possibly thermals.
2. Willy-willy! A...
...a wing that I can fly by myself in strong turbulence (and it doesn't require as much effort as a 19 meter wing) in turbulent air or thermals but which also has the abilit...
...winds and as anyone who has flown in desert areas knows, the ferocious thermals. Most of the flying was at 9,...seems to be a new routine of the roller coaster ride down through the thermals, squeals over the radio and s...
...friend Mike Barber, and only recently surpassed by an Ozzie. In thermals, columns of rising air lift t...ouds (though in dry California, there are often not clouds marking the thermals). A soaring pilot "...