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Prerequisites for XC Soaring

Learn the prerequisites and essential skills for successful cross-country (XC) soaring flights. Discover how to obtain training, gain experience, and practice effectively. Access additional resources beyond the SSA ABC Bronze program. Get insights on joining gaggles and mastering final glides for optimum safety. Explore landing techniques for off-airport scenarios. Start your journey towards becoming a proficient XC soaring pilot today!

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Prerequisites for XC Soaring

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  1. Prerequisites for XC Soaring Wally Berry, 2018

  2. 1. Glider 2. Transport 3. Crew Prereq’s for XC Soaring

  3. First you get a glider: Prereq’s for XC Soaring

  4. Transport

  5. Crew

  6. Altitude Airspeed Intelligence Prereq’s for XC Soaring Two out of three of these are needed for successful completion of a xc soaring flight!

  7. What you really need: Training Experience Practice Prereq’s for XC Soaring

  8. How to get? SSA ABC, Bronze badge program! Prereq’s for XC Soaring

  9. Training, Experience, Practice

  10. Prereq’s for XC Soaring

  11. Read…

  12. Read more…

  13. My two favorite books

  14. Two new books that are good

  15. And, two more books

  16. And, two more books

  17. Additional Skills Beyond what is covered in the SSA ABC, Bronze program: Gaggling Final Glides

  18. Gaggles

  19. Gliding Safety Videos 1 Cutting Inhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg2FFq0MZjiyNkbxgE0RvDrQ1Z8QvGktZ Gaggles

  20. Joining Gaggles (a) Always join outside their circle and only move in when on the opposite side. [Notice when red glider is at position 6 the green glider is 180° across circle] (b) Never join by cutting across another pilot’s circle or pulling up into the circle. (c) Always circle in the same direction as any nearby glider to make joining each other safe and simple.

  21. •Enter from the side, don’t aim for the middle •Vary your bank to fit yourself in •Turn in the same direction of the first sailplane in, usually above •Avoid just above or just below positions •Passing, avoid cutting across the nose of a slow climber •Don’t bomb through the center upon leaving, no matter what the books say Joining Gaggles

  22. Conservative: 1,000+AGL finish & 3.5+McCready, Or even more so to start with. Final Glides

  23. Finish & Landing

  24. Off-Airport Landings

  25. Waverly Hall

  26. Chilhowee

  27. Chilhowee (same contest)

  28. Caesar Creek

  29. Hobbs

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