Volume 16 No 1 Feb 1965.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

well that you should understand how itis done. as it will make your judgmentof height and position in the air moreeasy and accurate. It is best that youshould practise this by holding a bookin your hand and studying its change ofappearance with change of position.t>retend that you are a fly coming in tolamd 00 it; baving just returned froma mission .to the larder. As you fly vert,icallyover the book, you se~ it in planview (Fig. 4); you now throttle back andwing-over into your cross-wind leg; anotherturn and you are on your approach.Two, four, six, all legs downand your airfield looks like Fig. S. Notethat, as you are a good way away. thenear and far boundaries lQok about thesame length. As you get nearer. the farone will stay about the same size butthe near one will appear to get longer, aprocess called foreshortening.Look out-you are much too low (Fig.6); you know .this because the airfieldlooks too widc ~n relation to its depth,so shove on full throttle till it looks likeFig. 7; hold it and ease yourself ownto a nice gentle six-po.inter.Now keep on practising with yourTHREE COUNTIESAERO CLUB LTD.FIG.4l \FIG.SFIG-.7book; it's the cheapest flight simulatoryou'll ever get!Blackbushe Airport, Nr. Camberle.y, .SurreySpecial Courses for Glider Pilots to obtainPriva,te Pilot's UceMeNormal Courses for Private Pilot's LicenceNight flying -Instrument FlyingCharter and Pleasure FlyingResidential Courses availableC.F.I. Mr. Derek JohnsonYATELEY 215213