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more info... Select for comparison 30th FAI World Gliding Championships 2008 Price: 27.00€   (VAT not included) The 30th World Gliding Championship was memorable for the excellent weather conditions. On this book, you will find a complete description of all participating teams, daily tasks, daily weather forecast and, of course, the competition chronicles.   more info... Select for comparison Advanced Soaring Made Easy (1st Edition) (vote(s): 9) Price: 27.00€   (VAT not included) This book not only gives a complete overview of meteorological phenomena but it also explains to glider pilots how to use it. It details the techniques of soaring in thermals, slope lift, wave, etc, and provides pilots with excellent information that they can put into practice to improve their skills and get the maximum out of the sport of gliding. Bernard Eckey, a German born record pilot, instructor and gliding coach (now living in Australia), is encouraging pilots to move out beyond the circuit area and experience the exciting world of advanced soaring. His comprehensive work is clearly written and presented in a very attractive format.   more info... Select for comparison Advanced Soaring Made Easy (2nd Edition) (vote(s): 1) Price: 39.00€   (VAT not included) The different chapters in this book explain in detail, with clear illustrations, what glider pilots need to know to maximise their enjoyment and performance.   more info... Select for comparison Competing in gliders (2nd Ed.) (vote(s): 5) List price: 52.00€ Price: 50.00€   (VAT not included) You save: 2.00€ (4%) A book for everyone! Two international champions, father and son, transmitting not only the extraordinary wealth of experience they have gained in decades of gliding contests all over the world, but, by making the person central to the discourse, offering us much more that the title of this book might suggest. As an instruction manual for winning gliding competitions, it is a veritable gold mine for passionate followers of this sport, but the enthralling narrative style, rich in anecdote, will fascinate all those who love flight.   more info... Select for comparison Vuelo sin Motor. Técnicas avanzadas (vote(s): 1)   Price: 27.00€   (VAT not included) El piloto de vuelo sin motor, bien como deportista entusiasta de esta técnica o como excelente profesional de esta práctica, trata siempre de profundizar en los conocimientos necesarios para aumentar su rendimiento. Esta obra profundiza en la técnica de vuelos de distancia, de altas prestaciones y de competición.   more info... Select for comparison Winning II (vote(s): 1) Price: 34.00€   (VAT not included) Anyone aspiring to excellence in soaring, in these times of intense competition and galloping technology, has a long and arduous road ahead. This book reviewed the principles by which glider pilots learn to fly better, faster, safer and more competitively. You didn't have to be a contest pilot, a glider pilot or even a pilot to enjoy it. The writing alone was worth the reader's time.