Soaring – August 2019

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20 Soaring • August 2019 • http://www.ssa.org O ne measure of a soaring pilot is their number of soar- ing records. Soaring lege ...

http://www.ssa.org • August 2019 • Soaring 21 Alaska may present the biggest opportunity for big flights, but the logistics are ...

22 Soaring • August 2019 • http://www.ssa.org MD, VA, and WV could benefit from linking their routes to PA and TN. WV offers ver ...

http://www.ssa.org • August 2019 • Soaring 23 this illustrious group. A creative pilot might find competi- tive O&R speed li ...

24 Soaring • August 2019 • http://www.ssa.org Oldest Records & Most Record Records (Courtesy Rollin Hasness.) 10 Oldest Stat ...

WWWSSAORGs!UGUSTsSoaring 25 T he article “What I Learned from My Open Canopy Incident” (R.A. Livingston, Soar- ing, Octobe ...

26 Soarings!UGUSTsWWWSSAORG Originally published at Lucia ( luciajournal.com) I grew up at airports. Small ones – the muni ...

http://www.ssa.org • August 2019 • Soaring 27 demonstrate the plane’s incred- ible 40:1 glide ratio, covering vast distances sim ...

28 Soaring • August 2019 • http://www.ssa.org ing in the air: how far you have trav- eled, what the weather is doing, how high y ...

http://www.ssa.org • August 2019 • Soaring 29 I was sitting in my sun room in Cedar Crest, NM, cogitating and reminiscing about ...

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10Z on the ready under Moriarty wave skies. (Photo by W. G. Hill.) ...

32 Soaring • August 2019 • http://www.ssa.org totally off topic, so back to becoming a tow pilot. The first evidence of my havin ...

http://www.ssa.org • August 2019 • Soaring 33 between the Cherokee and the Olive Drab sedan, I rotated and off we went. As I cli ...

34 Soaring • August 2019 • http://www.ssa.org (OLC referenced traces and data will be found at the following websites:) https:// ...

http://www.ssa.org • August 2019 • Soaring 35 mountains. The clouds quit about 25 miles southwest of Moriarty, but I continued s ...

36 Soaring • August 2019 • http://www.ssa.org (All photos courtesy of Bo Michalowski.) I ’m back from the Region 5 North contest ...

http://www.ssa.org • August 2019 • Soaring 37 a compelling reason to deviate, like circling birds (or gliders), or a known weak ...

38 Soaring • August 2019 • http://www.ssa.org task. Finishing it in style (i.e., fast) is merely icing on the cake. The key less ...