Ultralight Airmanship How to Master the Air in an Ultralight By Jack Lambie A Few of the Important Topics Covered by This Essential Manual Include: W inds • The atmosphere and its movement • Low level turbulence • Circling and turning in the wind at low altitudes • Effects of trees, buildings and hills • The simplest, most direct use of the wind • “Coffin Corner” and how to escape • Lapse rate • Spins • “Seat-of-the-pants” flying • Importance of precision circles • Shear lines • Clouds and how to get out • How to tell if you need oxygen—“grunt breathing” • Speeds to fly • Simplified navigation • Landing out • How to select a field from the air • The book is illustrated by numerous pictures and diagrams. Making the right decisions in the air—the proper judgments—is what safe, competent flying is all about. If you would like to be the best pilot you possibly can, this definitive book is for you! Ultralight Airmanship enables you to become intimate with the air, instead of being just an intruder. It's a clear, concise guide to the atmosphere and how to fly in harmony with its powers, while decreasing its dangers. It covers the dynamics of air, and large weather systems and circulation patterns, without engineering “double-talk.” Discover the vitally important intricacies of micrometeorology—airflows around hills, trees, buildings and other obstructions—that always seem to cause those "unexplainable" crashes! Ultralight Airmanship is not a theory book! It tells you exactly what to do and how you should operate your aircraft to use, avoid and fly in various atmospheric conditions. Special advice and actual flight descriptions are given by experienced ultralight aviators. Learn how to handle turbulence so you're prepared when it hits—someday it will! Ultralight Airmanship is your ticket to skillfully mastering the air—your “roadmap-to-the-sky.” -- amazon.com
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