Understanding Gliding: The Principles of Soaring Flight

I have been learning to glide for some months and we recommended this book and would happily pass that recommendation on. I wouldnt say its all encompassing (not that it claims to be) but a good book to read early in your flying for sure.

Informative

I'm interested in doing some gliding and researched the best book for some background information, this book seems to fit the bill, delivery and condition spot on as always.

As an Aspiring glider pilot, and hearing all the folks at my club talk of Pigott like a deity, I decided to grab one of his books as a reference... Not knowing which one, I picked this at random.Normaly, I'm a very "theory" based person, but this book was a bit much for me... It doesn't really start from the beginning. If you're an Ab-Initio, I'd recommend Gliding: Passenger to Pilot for the first few lessons, and then maybe as you get very close to solo, this book might be suitable.On the plus side though, one of the Anicdotes in this book was very useful... I wasn't comfortable with well banked turns, prefering slow shallow ones, until I read an anicdote in here where a very well banked turn saved his life - if anything, its more safe than shallow turns.

Explains a lot of those things which I did not notice or not exactly understood. Quite a thick handbook makes flying more predictible, smart and safe. Good choice for every pilot.

A top book, we recommend it to all our new pilots, contains everything from your first flight to cross country.