Simple tips for everyday pilot life, Part II
This is the 2nd part with tips that make everyday piloting easier.
This is the 2nd part with tips that make everyday piloting easier.
Many pilots, and not only cross-country flight experts, now use XC Track, installed on their Android smartphone, to keep themselves informed about important data during the flight. One of the great strengths of XC Track is at the same time one of the great problems, namely that XC Track is very flexibly configurable. I would like to explain my concept for XC Track and how I configured my XC Track page layout in more detail in this article.
It is often the little tips that make pilots' lives easier. I would like to present three of these simple tips here. If I think of more tips in the future, I will post them here.
A FAI triangle around the Kreuzeck Group. Start at the most famous take off in southern austria, flying along the river Drau, enter later Möllvalley and back to the Drauvalley.
It has been known and discussed for a long time that a trimmed glider at best simply starts badly, but in the worst case it can even be life-threatening. But how can I check the trim of my glider myself?
The Karwendel Triangle - the classic near Munich to fly a 100 km triangle according to FAI rules from Brauneck. I myself have tried it 3 times, but unfortunately have failed early so far. I hope, with good planning, that it will be in 2023.