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Know the Game: Gliding

Ann Welch / Paperback / Published 1994
This guide combines practical text with photographs and diagrams as an introduction to the sport. Written with the backing of the gliding governing body, it provides details of the rules and equipment needed.

Beginning Gliding

Derek Piggott / Paperback / Published 2002
This manual is intended for budding and improving glider pilots and as a resource for gliding instructors. It views the whole process from the perspective of a beginner tackling all the difficulties and concerns experienced by them head on, including the fundamentals of gliding, how to learn them and how they should be taught. It includes a new chapter on soaring.

Gliding from Passenger to Pilot

Steve Longland / Paperback / Published 2001
This volume is for everyone who has ever dreamt of escaping to thousands of feet above the ground, with a view strtching to the horizon, and barely a whisper to disturb the moment. The book guides you through how to realise that dream and goes on to explore the many opportunities the sport offers. Topics covered include: a history of the sport; an introduction to gliding clubs, getting started and what to expect; an insight into how gliders fly and detailed instruction on how to fly them; sections on launching, the cockpit, safety and weather forecasts, and finally ideas for cross-country and competitive flying and tips for owning a glider.

Flying Sailplanes

Helmut Reichman / Hardback
Out of Print - but may be available second hand. Probably still the best book for the new glider pilot.

The Glider Pilot's Manual

Ken Stewart / Paperback / Published 2003
This is a detailed flying training manual for glider pilots. All aspects of training for the Glider Pilot's Licence are covered in detail. It is a complete manual for the beginner leading him/her through the flying training, giving enough technical information for the various Principles of Flight examinations which need to be passed, and introducing basic soaring.

The British Gliding Association Manual of Gliding

British Gliding Association / Handback / Published 2002
As the official manual of the world famous British Gliding Association, this book is compulsory reading for all pilots and instructors. Highly illustrated and designed to be user-friendly, it guides the user through a comprehensive range of key subjects. 'Must-have' information is highlighted which, together with the less critical material, provides an authoritative and cutting-edge resource which can be studied or dipped into as required. Making complex topics comprehensible and including 400 illustrations to enhance the explanatory material, this is the manual of gliding.

Gliding: A Handbook on Soaring Flight

Derek Piggott MBE/ Paperback / Published 2002
An illustrated volume on gliding. It includes a section for the student pilot and information on flying techniques, instruments, conditions and equipment. This edition is updated and contains revised hints for beginners.

Understanding Gliding

Derek Piggott / Paperback / Published 2002
A study of gliding, exploring how and why a glider flies. Written by a gliding instructor, it seeks to demystify the theory behind the subject. This fourth edition is updated to include developments in technology and high-performance gliders.

Gliding Safety

Derek Piggott MBE / Paperback / Published 1998
Examines some of the mishaps that can occur on the ground and air, and a positive approach to avoiding them. Also covers the transition to different glider types.

Meteorology and Flight

Tom Bradbury / Paperback / Published 2004
A practical weather book for anyone interested in flight, covering both large and small-scale systems. This edition contains up-to-date information on means of obtaining data such as the MetFAX system, plus details on METAR and TAF reports. The book describes the influence of high-level jet streams on the development of depressions, as well as detailing thermals, lee waves and up-and-down currents which are important to pilots of sailplanes. Diagrams show the movement of air at various heights and also trace the development of clouds, from fair weather cumulus to giant cumulonimbus and the associated hazards of lightning, hail, downbursts and outflows.

Cross Country Soaring

Helmut Reichman / Hardback / Published 1978
Out of Print - but may be available second hand. Considered the best if you want to understand the techniques of cross-country soaring. Not a book for the novice.

Soaring Pilot's Manual

Ken Stewart / Paperback / Published 2000
This manual describes the basic soaring mechanisms and techniques of flying. Clear diagrams illustrate the text throughout and make complicated facts seem simple to understand. It progresses to cross country flying and contains exercises that should be found useful by any glider pilot.

The Paths of Soaring Flight

Frank Irving / Hardback / Published 1997
This book is concerned with the sport of soaring, mainly with the mathematical basis of sailplane design and operation. It does not tell the beginner how to fly, but it will give an experienced pilot some background, with historical notes showing how ideas have evolved and could develop in the future. Some of the material is taken from OSTIV (Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale de Vol a Viole) publications and from Technical Soaring, neither of which is readily available to the general public, including papers by the author and others. Extensive references are provided in each chapter.

The Handbook of Glider Aerobatics

Mike Woollard, Peter Mallinson / Hardcover / Published 1999
This text provides a reference point for use in conjunction with aerobatic instruction. It aims to help provide an understanding of the important subjects that are essential for safe and successful aerobatic flying.

A Glider Pilot Bold ...

Wally Kahn / Paperback / Published 1998
A glider pilot bold was he A maiden unsuspecting she He landed one day near her home Demanding tea and telephone
Her dainty heart had missed a beat Steep turns at five and twenty feet The field was very very small The trees were very very tall ...
Walter Kahn's love affair with gliding started in 1945 and his book tells many amusing stories about the people he has met over the past fifty-odd years. Tales of those men and women in their flying machines, the songs they love to sing and events leading to the glider movement as it is in this country today are faithfully recorded, supplemented by a list of gliding books published in the United Kingdom.
A very active glider and power pilot, he competed in national and international gliding contests, broke numerous gliding records and taught very many men and women to glide.

Platypus Papers: Fifty Years of Powerless Pilotage

Michael Bird (Editor), Peter Fuller (Illustrator) / Hardback / Published 2000
A collection of 'little pieces' based on articles written over 40-years, mostly for Sailplane & Gliding. This book brings together the best of Platypus in one volume.

German Air Attache: The Thrilling Story of the German Ace Pilot and Wartime Diplomat Peter Riedel

Martin Simons / Hardback / Published 1997
This book is of interest to serious historians of World War 2, as well as to those who know of Peter Riedel as a champion pilot of sporting sailplanes in the nineteen thirties. It explains how the German government in Berlin obtained accurate information about the growth of the USA aircraft industry over the period 1937 until the declaration of war by Germany on the USA, after the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. Peter Riedel, whose story is told here, did not consider himself a Nazi but believed he had a patriotic duty to serve Germany. He was invited to take the post of adviser to the German Military Attache in Washington DC, accepted, and in his official position during the critical period 1938 - 41, legally collected highly accurate data from openly published sources, and passed it to Berlin. (The famous pilot Lindbergh is sometimes blamed for the accuracy of the information reaching the German Air Ministry at this time.)

Percy Pilcher and the Challenge of Flight

Philip Jarrett / Paperback / Published 2000
This is the story of Percy Pilcher, a determined inventor who helped pave the way for the Wright brothers' first flight. He struggled to build a stable, controllable glider, making several versions and lots of changes in his experiments.

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