Nice skyline article

As the article says, pays to attend to how the aircraft
flies. I am much more comfortable a little faster and a little higher
bank angle
in the Cirrus.

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The article dances around the question, at what speed do we thermal?

Students hate the "it depends" that this type of question drives, but
for my students, I say at the minimum sinking speed for your bank
angle. Since turning polars are not published I approximate this by
multiplying the minimum sinking speed by the load factor. Maybe not
completely and aerodynamically correct, but a workable rule while
flying around.

Terry Claussen
Estrella