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Thermal Flying is a comprehensive guide to the art of thermaling and XC flying. This 260 page book is illustrated with clear diagrams and photos to help pilots make sense of the concepts, techniques and meteorology knowledge you need to make the most of each flying day.
Written by highly respected competition pilot Burkhard Martens, Thermal Flying has been translated in to English by PWC pilot Mads Syndergard with a bonus section by world champion Bruce Goldsmith.
This hardback book covers all aspects of cross country flying and spells out priceless information on reading conditions and thermal flying like no other book. Thermal Flying is peppered with experts’ tips and the author’s own personal experiences and beautifully illustrated with succulent photographs.
With something to learn, whether you are a beginner or seasoned campaigner, this is a book that should be on every pilot’s bookshelf!
"Just a note to say thanks for the thermal Flying book - it is actually the best flying book I have ever come across - I think the best thing is that it has some quite advanced stuff, but is still written in quite simple language which is perfect for simple people like me! All the other more advanced books are really \'dry\' and I generally fall asleep by page 3! And the pictures are really good too. I like pictures. I will be recommending it to absolutely everyone."
Rachael, Allez Up Paragliding, France
Price: £27.95 |
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| | | Pocket Aviation | |
Pocket Aviation A Guide to Paragliding
The author, former Greek paragliding champion Panayiotis Kaniamos, has collaborated with Dennis Pagen to produce this new English edition of this fantastic book.
Chapters include:
Design, Material and Equipment
Aerodynamics
Launching and Landing
Meteorology
Soaring and Thermalling
Problems in Flight
Training
Choosing your Gear
Human Factors
Simply written with clear illustrations, this 248 page book even manages to squeeze in a little humour... one page is dedicated to helping you recognise your signs of addiction, evident when you name your dog 'rotor' and you only consider losing weight if it'd help you get into the middle of the weight-range...
This book comes bundled with a CD-Rom.
Price: £17.95 |
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| | | Paragliding: A Pilot Training Manual | |
Mike Meier, Mark Stucky and Tim Meehan
New edition. Written in the USA this book is much improved over previous editions and comes with a DVD illustrating those aspects hard to put into words.
Clear layout and some excellent content.
Price: £24.95 |
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| | | Touching Cloudbase | |
Ian Currer
The difinitive instructional book on paragliding. It has extensive sections on paramotoring, tandem flying, choosing equipment, flying in different countries and terrain along with details on expedition flying and acrobatics. The complete BHPA syllabus (right up to pilot) is covered including a section on how to pass your exams.
Price: £16.95 |
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| | | Pilot Handbook | |
Mark Dale
Concise, detailed manual covering paragliding and hanggliding from Elementary Pilot to Pilot. Highly recommended.
Price: £14.95 |
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| | | Weather Usborne guide | |
We recommend this children's book to all our students so they have a solid base of understanding about the weather before trying to read any of the other text books.
Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own.
Vivid, full colour illustrations and photographs on every page, accompanied by short, informative text.
Price: £3.99 |
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| | | Understanding the Sky - | |
Dennis Pagen explains everything you need to know about meteorology. Very good Met book.
Price: £17.95 |
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| | | Meteorology and Flight | |
Author: Tom Bradbury
Intended for pilots of contains practical advice and information on both large- and small-scale weather systems. It covers the development of depressions and anticyclones, fronts, convection, cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds, waves, wave flow and how to fly in waves, local winds, airflow over ridges and mountains, visibility, weather maps and forecasting, METAR and TAF reports and MetFAX services.
Price: £16.99 |
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| | | Understanding Flying Weather | |
Author: Derek Piggott.
A superb first time meteororlogy and flight book. Highly recommended.
This book explains how to recognize good and hazardous flying weather by looking at the causes and effects of atmospheric phenomena. These include air masses, high and low pressure areas, cloud formations, fronts, thermals, inversions and anti-cyclones. For those preparing for the Bronze "C" award or for one of the Private Pilot's Licence examinations there is a useful appendix with revision questions and answers. Derek Piggott is the author of a number of well-known books on gliding and is a gliding expert.
Price: £11.99 |
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| | | Flying with Condors | |
Bibliography of Judy Leden, three times world champion and six time British Women's champion in Paragliding and Hang Gliding. Inspirational reading!!
Price: £18.00 |
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| | | Stolen Moments | |
Jerome Maupoint
This collection of over 150 photographs celebrates the art of paragliding in all its wonder, from discovering our worlds wilder side - to the excitement of pulling high-G aerobatics. Stolen moments is a book for the few who already know the joy of free flight, and for the many who are yet to experience it.
Price: £24.95 |
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| | | Paramotoring from the Ground Up | |
Currently out of print a new edition is due out very soon.
"A long-awaited book is now available to those with an interest in footlaunch flying - Noel Whittall's Paramotoring From the Ground Up. Noel has built on the foundations laid by his previous, enormously successful book on paragliding, to bring us a realistic overview of paramotoring. . . It provides a perfect introduction to the sport for those thinking of taking it up, or anybody extending the capabilities of an existing paragliding rig.
Pilots who are already engaged in flying paramotors will also find lots of valuable information within - all of it backed up by extensive illustrations and up-to-date photographs." - FLYER MAGAZINE
Price: £19.95 |
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| | | The Powered Paragliding Bible | |
Published in 2006, this book is the ultimate reference source for all paramotorists. Many, many diagrams help make sense of complicated concepts and introduce some new ones. From the parts of the paramotor to Aerodynamics, our sport is explained in concise ways that encourage understanding. A real effort has been made to avoid wordiness while keeping it interesting. Jeff Goin provides 310 pages of clear and concise advise on everything the paramotor pilot will need to know to fly safely, including: Launch and landing secrets
What’s risky and how to avoid it
Practical weather knowledge
Airspace knowledge
How to select equipment
Maintenance tips
Interesting things to do
Precision Flying
Winning competitions
Price: £23.95 |
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| | | Condor Trail | |
A comprehensive guide to South America’s flying sites. Includes maps & photos. 256 pages. Covers Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the northern regions of Chile and Argentina.
Price: £12.95 |
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| | | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | |
Richard Bach
This is a story for people who follow their dreams and make their own rules; a story that has inspired people for decades. If there is a pilot in your life (including yourself) who hasn't read this, buy it for them! They'll love it...
Price: £5.95 |
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| | | Slipping the Surly Bonds | |
By David English
From man's earliest expressions on the magic of flying to the chilling last words of some of aviation's giants, here's an utterly unique collection of 1,000 of the most memorable thoughts on flight down through the ages.
Concisely capturing flying's special allure and excitement as well as its humor and tragedy, this power-packed anthology of quotations by Leonardo da Vinci, Lindbergh, Armstrong, Yeager, and hundreds of others amply illustrates why, as aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal rhapsodized, "To fly is everything."
Price: £12.95 |
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| | | Air Pilots Manual Volume 2 | |
by Trevor Thom
The official pilots handbooks as used by powered aircraft pilots, these are the definitive books on their subjects. Very useful for the BHPA Pilot exam.
Covers:
Air Law and Meteorology. Complete with Air Navigation Order (ANO) information and the latest European revisions
Price: £20.00 |
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