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Livre "Understanding the Sky"
"A pilot needs to understand the ways of the sky to fly successfully and safely"
Ce livre, à l'attention des pilotes de vol libre, traite de tous les thèmes importants, depuis les grands phénomènes météo jusqu'à l'aérologie locale avec de nombreux cas particuliers.
Illustrations par l'auteur pertinentes en noir et blanc.
Photos noir et blanc. En anglais
1992 mais toujours d'actualité !
Understanding the Sky will help you unlock the potential of every flying day.
- A classic – a bestseller when it was first published
- One of the first books written by a pilot for other pilots
- Written by Dennis Pagen, one the USA's longest-serving pro hang glider pilots
- Explains complex meteorology in plain English, with the aim of helping you fly further
- Easy to understand text and illustrations
As cross country pilots, observation and analysis of the ever-changing conditions is crucial if we are to stay in the air and maximise our distances.
Dennis Pagen's Understanding the Sky covers the macro-scale meteorological phenomena, from pressure systems to the Jet Stream, and also focuses in on the micro-met of everything from thermal formation to wave lift.
Read this and you will not only be well on your way to becoming a weather guru, the knowledge inside will help you fly further too.