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Old January 23rd 16, 03:59 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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Default Best Soaring Book

On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:39:58 PM UTC-7, Casey wrote:
What is the best or most interesting soaring book you have read?

I will be choosing a new one out of these, so any recommendations?

On Quite Wings
The Art and Technique of Soaring
Cross-Country Soaring
The Joy of Soaring
Soaring Valley
America's Soaring Book
Soaring Cross Country
With Wings as Eagles
The Powerless Ones
The Soaring Pilot
Once Upon a Thermal
Glider Flying
Gliding A Handbook on Soaring Flight
New Soaring Pilot
On Being a Bird
Soar America
Winning
Advanced Soaring
Soar Sierra


Plenty of good reading there.

Once Upon A Thermal, read this at my local library about the time I took my first glider flight, soared for about an hour.

New Soaring Pilot, in a word, illuminating.

Most of the others followed.

Frank Whiteley