Turn coordinator? How dare they!

On Sunday, February 24, 2013 6:35:39 PM UTC-5, Martin Gregorie wrote:
We're currently preparing for the switch over to the EASA
licensing regime and there will be a cloud flying qualification but it
will be simpler than the power IFR rating because, from the nature of
gliding, it will only be exercised on VMC days and typically with the
cloud base well above ground level.

That seems rather sensible. I would like to see something similar in the USA because we have similar clouds over here.


And do I understand correctly that the only legal way to fly in clouds

in the USA...

Thats interesting:

This is purely speculative on my part, not a statement of facts.

I have a copy of "Once Upon A Thermal" (great book,
BTW), in which Dick Wolters wrote a long chapter about wave flying in New
England which involved in-cloud descents. Were they being naughty boys or
were things different then?

All I know is that wave flying conditions are still rather dynamic and rapidly changeable in New England.