Re: [Aus-soaring] Advanced Gliding Knowledge Text book - companiontoBGK

2005-04-20 Thread John McCullagh
To Richard McLean After years of puzzling why a book for early cross-country pilots did not exist for British pilots, I wrote one.  On the basis of there being about 150 British Silver Cs a year, I printed 200 in November 2004 and sold out in four months.  I have shifted 60 of the second e

Re: [Aus-soaring] Advanced Gliding Knowledge Text book - companiontoBGK

2005-04-13 Thread McLean Richard
Hi Mike, Point taken re: re-inventing the wheel. From my own experience I feel that while texts such as Reichmann are around there is a place for a condensed & updated summary of all the most relevant material. The list includes some topics that weren't covered by Reichmann nearly 30 years ago and

Re: [Aus-soaring] Advanced Gliding Knowledge Text book - companiontoBGK

2005-04-12 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 06:38 AM 13/04/05 +1000, you wrote: >Rather than produce another text, perhaps this is better incorporated into >the GFA "Advanced Training" document - which is still subject to amendment >and improvements. I'm sure your input into this document would be welcomed. > >I believe Terry Cubley is