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The Secrets of Champions - $29.95

Learn from 17 of the World's Best Pilots!

The Secrets of Champions includes:

• New Thermal Techniques
• Equipment Tricks
• Finding Lift
• Cross-Country Concepts
• Gliding Better
• Decision Making
• Upwind Flying
• Learning to Focus
• Mental Aspects
• Safer Flying 
• ...and much more!

8 1/2 x 11 format, 211 pages, four-color cover, 83 photos, 30 illustrations

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Authored by Dennis Pagen, The Secrets of Champions is a collection of the secrets of 17 of the world's top pilots. They freely talk about the tricks and techniques that get them to the top of the stack and send them along on enviable cross-country flights. We have covered the globe to talk to these pilots. You will benefit from the insights and guidance of aces like three time world champions Manfred Ruhmer and Tomas Suchanek. Many other familiar names grace the pages with their lessons for the average pilot. Get the goods from Americans, Mike Barber, Paris Williams and Kari Castle, and Europeans Gerolf Heinrichs, Guido Gehrmann and Oleg Bondarchuk. This book is intended to top off a pilot's learning after the first two books of our hang gliding trilogy. Intermediates to experts will improve their flying immensely with a single read and Secrets of Champions will continue to offer new insights as your experience accumulates. There are great tips about new thermal techniques, finding lift, maximizing glide between thermals, mental aspects, decision making, equipment tricks, and much more. Over 110 photos and illustrations help you understand the concepts, and also introduce you to the pilots offering the knowledge they gained from decades of flying. This book is a treasure to those who want to extend their skills to the top level.  Consult The Secrets of Champions  Table of contents for a list of contributers.

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