Efficent Gliding

Speed to Fly

  • Leave the first thermal once the climb rate is the same at the top as when you entered it
  • Do your scratching at the top of the thermal, not at the bottom of the next thermal because you left too early

Speedbar pitch control

  • Glider pitches back - push speed bar
  • Glider pitches forward - release speed bar

Rear Riser control

  • Softening leading edge - pull down