There is no substitute for experience. Go and do it - if possible with expert
guidance. Reading the books helps, but having the mentor in the back seat for
direct feedback is priceless.

One excellent option if you can afford the travel and time is to go to Omarama
and do a mountain flying course with GlideOmarama or Southern Soaring. Have just
completed the latter - and learned a lot in a very short time, had a lot of fun
and flew in some of the most remarkable terrain. Of course I got the "worst
weather in living memory" - but still good enough for 11 hours in the Duo.

The Grand Prix pilots I spoke to also found the courses useful.

Southern Soaring is much smaller and more personal, suited me perfectly.

Bruce

fredsez wrote:
On Jan 15, 4:42 pm, "News" wrote:
Check outwww.greatwesternsoaring.com. Fred has a great section on mountain
flying, and it's a helluva website, to boot.

"Paul Remde" wrote in message

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Hi,
I am not an expert on mountain flying, but I do sell a book that looks
very good. It was written by Mark Palmer and is part of Bob Wander's
"Gliding Mentor" series.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/books...WaveFlying.htm
Other weather related books are available he
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/books...ct.htm#Weather
Good Soaring,
Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com
"ASM" wrote in message
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What would be the best book explaining mountain flying???
Thanks,
Jacek
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Advice: Go fly in the mountains. You will fly high in thin air. You
will need more space to turn. Read all the books. Pay attention to the
way air flows. Don't hit the rocks. Fred Robinson