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THE SECRET OF
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Imagine having a companion who is a world class
pilot with the patience to talk to you time after time, analysing
your performance, showing you expert techniques and giving you
little tips that result in big flights. This companion would ideally
give you the secrets he or she gathered from decades of flying but
also the insights of other flying aces. A pipe dream you say? Not
anymore. Your companion might not be a warm body, but you can take
it anywhere and it never complains. It has the patience to entertain
you nightly. It is the new book The Secrets of Champions by Dennis
Pagen.
This new book consists of 17 interviews with most of the world's top
pilots from 9 different countries. They offer many different
perspectives along with their insights. There are secrets about
thermaling efficiently, finding thermals and working in weak lift.
The specific techniques of gliding are covered by some of the top
competition pilots. Cross-country strategies and fast flying are
given much attention. Safety is addressed in a whole discussion of
flying in strong "Owens Valley" air. In The Secrets of Champions
you'll learn about flying from the legendary "sky gods."
This book was more than 6 years in the making. We started
interviewing our pilots with three-time world champion, Tomas
Suchanek, and finished with three-time world champion, Manfred
Ruhmer. In between we captured the ideas and insights of the best
from Europe, Australia and the U.S. Everyone in the book was more
than willing to divulge the secrets that he or she uses to achieve
hang glider excellence. We discuss both the physical and mental
factors that work for them. We cover the practices that led them on
the road to success in our sport. We delve into the equipment tricks
that they use and how it integrates with their actual flying
techniques. There is more information in these hours and hours of
interviews than any one pilot can gather in a lifetime of flying
with awareness.
The Secrets of Champions is targeted to the intermediate to expert
pilot, but any pilot who has soared will find some great secrets
that they can take to the airtime bank. This book is the final of
our hang gliding triad, starting with the Hang Gliding Training
Manual (for beginners to intermediates) and followed by Performance
Flying (for novice to advanced pilots). The three together provides
a fairly complete store of knowledge about modern hang gliding
technique and practices.
Here are the pilots you will learn from: Paris Williams, Mike
Barber, Jim Lee, Chris Arai, Mark Gibson, Kari Castle (U.S.);
Manfred Ruhmer, Gerolf Heinrichs (Austria); Bethino Schmitz, Andre
Wolf, Luiz Niemeyer (Brazil); Oleg Bondarchuk (Ukraine); Richard
Walbec (France); Guido Gehrman, Bob Baier (Germany); Tomas Suchanek
(Czech Republic); and Rohan Holtcamp (Australia).
The Secrets of Champions consists of 254 pages, well supplied with
flying wisdom. There are handsome graphics and a full complement of
over 110 photos and illustrations to enhance your understanding and
your reading enjoyment. You can learn in hours what it took top
pilots years of experiment and practice to figure out by curling up
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