Take a look at Old Buzzard's Soaring Book by Dave Thornburg, from http://soaringstuff.com/books.html
It's certainly not too technical, maybe not technical enough ... depends on what exactly you are looking for. ---- Dennis Hoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have some new members that need some help understanding the aerodynamics > of flying a radio controlled sailplane. > > When I was young, very young, I had the luck and honor to hook up with the > local Air Patrol. They had a glider program for their members and I joined, > went through ground school and trained in full scale gliders. The ground > school helped me understand flight. > > I further studied slow speed aerodynamics in my last year of high school > (1970) in an independent learning class. Both of these helped me when I > started flying RC Gliders, so I was not afraid to do it. > > I think that new flyer's sometimes feel intimidated by the the concept of > learning flight and this inhibits their learning curve. I hope to create a > ground school for new flyer's to give the a firm foundation before they start > flying. We could also use it as a presentation at local hobby shops as an > introduction to RC Soaring. This should be in plain english, not too > technical so as to scare them away. > > I found some power ground schools but nothing directed toward RC Soaring > specifically. > > Does anybody have something out there? > > I also posted the same message on RCGroups. > > Thanks, > > Dennis Hoyle > WMSS / Secretary > AMA #SNut > LSF #7847 > Dennis Hoyle > WMSS > AMA# SNUT > www.rcsoaring.org RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
