Power Pilots

Step Up Your Game

As a power pilot you have already entered the world of flight which offers the joy and beauty of personal air travel. You've learned stick and rudder skills, navigation, energy management, weather, communications, judgment, and more. Now, step up your game and discover soaring. It is endlessly fascinating, always beautiful, intellectually stimulating, and exhilarating. Once you've soared you will never look at the sky in same way again. Soaring sharpens airmanship, confidence, weather awareness, and power-off emergency skills. Many of us fly power as well as pure sailplanes. You'll love it as much as we do.

Video: Jason, of "Flight Chops" learns power-off technique in an older low-performance glider from a great instructor at Truckee-Tahoe Soaring. Thanks, Jason, for permission to use your videos. Click here for a video about Neil Armstrong as a Glider Pilot.