In the same way that the ground school supplement your actual flying lessons (the best way to learn), reading can provide useful insight and understanding to various aspects of your flying knowledge. Some topics, such as the weather or glider maintenance, get a much more thorough treatment from books than you get from flying. Of course, you will learn about these eventually, but you will get much more out of your flying if you can back it up with some reading.
To promote the learning process, we are making some of our gliding books available to new members. If you'd like to borrow a book listed here, please contact the owner. If you'd like to offer a book to loan, just edit the page and add it yourself, or contact B.W.Duncan (at) sms.ed.ac.uk.
| Title | Author | Owner | Borrower |
|---|---|---|---|
| Streckensegelflug (Cross-Country Soaring) | Helmut Reichmann | Bruce | Martin |
| Meteorology Today | C. Donald Aherns | Bruce | |
| Gliding Safety | Derek Piggott | Bruce | |
| Understanding Gliding | Derek Piggott | Bruce | missing presumed lost? |
| The Complete Soaring Guide | Ann Welch | Bruce | |
| The Story of Gliding | Ann Welch | Bruce | |
| Cloud Reading for Pilots | A. C. Douglas | Bruce | |
| Gliding | Derek Piggott | Adam | Stuart |
| Radiotelephony | Trevor Thom | Martin |
We also have an collection of recent (past five years or so) issues of Sailplane and Gliding magazine. I've made no attempt to catalogue them, but I believe Martin has the biggest selection.
