Download or read book Advanced Paragliding Volume 3 written by Gavin McClurg and published by Cross Country International. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Paragliding by Cloudbase Mayhem podcast host Gavin McClurg is packed with insight from some of the very best paraglider pilots in the sport. Aimed at all intermediate pilots up, it will help all pilots build solid foundations and progress in the sport. The book draws on over eight years’ of in-depth interviewing with over 100 of the world’s best pilots and covers aerology, meteorology, psychology, safety and risk-management. If you have 100 hours or more and want to go places in paragliding, this is for you. This ebook edition was published in 2023 in three volumes, each designed to capture the flying genius and practical know-how of some of the world’s best pilots in easily digestible chunks. Vol 3 includes interviews with Nick Neynens, Pál Takáts, Rafael Saladini, Russ Ogden, Thomas Theurillat and Will Gadd. Plus chapters on: How to Avoid Ground Suck; How to Kill Complacency; How to Recover from Frightening Experiences; How to Tweak Your Mental Game; Using Threat and Error Management; Final Thoughts; Pilot Self-Assessment.
Download or read book Advanced Paragliding Volume 2 written by Gavin McClurg and published by Cross Country International. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Paragliding by Cloudbase Mayhem podcast host Gavin McClurg is packed with insight from some of the very best paraglider pilots in the sport. Aimed at all intermediate pilots up, it will help all pilots build solid foundations and progress in the sport. The book draws on over eight years’ of in-depth interviewing with over 100 of the world’s best pilots and covers aerology, meteorology, psychology, safety and risk-management. If you have 100 hours or more and want to go places in paragliding, this is for you. This ebook edition was published in 2023 in three volumes, each designed to capture the flying genius and practical know-how of some of the world’s best pilots in easily digestible chunks. Vol 2 includes interviews with Dustin Martin, Honza Rejmanek, Jeff Shapiro, Jocky Sanderson, Kelly Farina and Maxime Bellemin. Plus chapters on: How to Thermal Better; How to Glide Better; How to Go Big; How to Fly Competitions; How to SIV; Why SIV and Ground Handling Matter; How to Throw Your Reserve.
Download or read book Advanced Paragliding Volume 1 written by Gavin McClurg and published by Cross Country International. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Paragliding by Cloudbase Mayhem podcast host Gavin McClurg is packed with insight from some of the very best paraglider pilots in the sport. Aimed at all intermediate pilots up, it will help all pilots build solid foundations and progress in the sport. The book draws on over eight years’ of in-depth interviewing with over 100 of the world’s best pilots and covers aerology, meteorology, psychology, safety and risk-management. If you have 100 hours or more and want to go places in paragliding, this is for you. This ebook edition was published in 2023 in three volumes, each designed to capture the flying genius and practical know-how of some of the world’s best pilots in easily digestible chunks. Vol 1 includes interviews with Adel Honti, Alex Robé, Armin Harich, Bruce Goldsmith, Chrigel Maurer and Cody Mittanck. Plus chapters on: How to build a solid foundation; When to move up; How to progress safely; How to navigate intermediate syndrome; How to manage risk; How to avoid accidents; An advanced pilot’s first aid kit.
Download or read book The Powered Paragliding Bible written by Jeff Goin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual for flying powered paragliders.
Download or read book Performance Paragliding Preparation for Cross Country and Competition Flying written by Maxime Bellemin and published by Performance Paragliding. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxime's books, 'Paragliding Performance' give a full analysis of how to improve your performance from preparation to looking at flying from a physical, technical, mental attitude, tactical and logistical angle. For cross-country or competition pilots, you will find many answers and new questions to ask yourself in these excellent books for those keen to progress.The original book has been divided into two volumes for this edition. This one is devoted to training, while the other one addresses performance in terms of execution and achieving goals. First volume starts with the introduction while the second ends with the conclusion.
Download or read book Powered Paragliding Bible 6 written by Jeff Goin and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, CONCISE, and professionally-illustrated guide for anyone wanting to become an ACCOMPLISHED paramotor pilot, either footlaunch or on wheels. It is comprehensive but breaks down information into digestible chunks that fit well with quality training programs.Section 1 is all about safely getting to first flight and gaining competency. Section 2 covers what's needed to set out on your own. it offers PRACTICAL airspace, weather, airport, site, cross country, and maintenance knowledge. Section 3 is about MASTERING and surviving the sport including risk management, precision flying, handling turbulence, tough landing options and much more. Section 4 details the weird aerodynamics and physics that govern paramotor flight, more in-depth weather, and history knowledge. Section 5 is about choosing gear--what goes into it, the tradeoffs, and why choices are so critical to safe learning. Proper choice is key to surviving the dangerous learning phase. Section 6 explores how to get more out of the sport, like traveling with gear, photography, and other uses.
Download or read book Paragliding written by Noel Whittall and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paragliding is the essential guide to this fast-growing, thrilling sport, taking the reader from an introduction to the basic techniques, through the rules of the sport and the equipment necessary for the ultimate experience of 'flying.'
Download or read book Creating Character Bringing Your Story to Life written by William Bernhardt and published by Babylon Books. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All fiction is character-driven, according to William Bernhardt, despite what you might have heard elsewhere. If your characters don’t interest readers, even the most exciting plots will fail. “Action is character,” Aristotle wrote, but what does that mean, and how can you use that fundamental principle to create dynamic fiction that will captivate readers? This book explains the relationship between character and plot, and how the perfect melding of the two produces a mesmerizing story. Using examples spanning from The Odyssey to The Da Vinci Code, Bernhardt discusses the art of character creation in a direct and easily comprehended manner. The book also includes exercises designed to help writers apply these ideas to their own work. William Bernhardt is the author of more than fifty novels, including the blockbuster Ben Kincaid series of legal thrillers. Bernhardt is also one of the most sought-after writing instructors in the nation. His programs have educated many authors now published by major houses. He is the only person to have received the Southern Writers Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (U Penn) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (OSU), which is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large." The Red Sneaker Writing Center is dedicated to helping writers achieve their literary goals. What is a red sneaker writer? A committed writer seeking useful instruction and guidance rather than obfuscation and attitude. Red sneakers get the job done, and so do red sneaker writers, by paying close attention to their art and craft, committing to hard work, and never quitting. Are you a red sneaker writer? If so, this book is for you.
Download or read book THERMAL FLYING written by BURKHARD. MARTENS and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jonathan Livingston Seagull written by Richard Bach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes the rediscovered part four"--Cover.
Download or read book Touching Cloudbase written by Ian Currer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English for Everyone English Vocabulary Builder written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLEASE NOTE - this is a replica of the print book and you will need paper and a pencil to complete the exercises. This absolutely essential language guide and workbook will expand your English vocabulary in no time. Spilling over with thousands of entries for useful words and phrases, this is the perfect study aid for any adult learning English as a foreign language. With 3,000 words across hundreds of pages, English Vocabulary Builder brings you everything you need to know and much, much more. From activities, family, holidays, science, and work to animals, feelings, health, sports, and weather, just about every subject in the English language is covered in eye-catching, illustrative detail. All the vocabulary is shown with both UK and US spellings, and every word can be heard with its own audio recording in the accompanying app available for download. Additional interactive exercises ensure language learning is an easy, entertaining, and educational experience. This book is part of DK's best-selling English for Everyone series, which is suitable for all levels of English language learners and provides the perfect reading companion for study, exams, work, or travel. With audio material available on the accompanying website and Android/iOS apps, there has never been a better time to learn English.
Download or read book Advanced Soft Computing Techniques in Data Science IoT and Cloud Computing written by Sujata Dash and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book plays a significant role in improvising human life to a great extent. The new applications of soft computing can be regarded as an emerging field in computer science, automatic control engineering, medicine, biology application, natural environmental engineering, and pattern recognition. Now, the exemplar model for soft computing is human brain. The use of various techniques of soft computing is nowadays successfully implemented in many domestic, commercial, and industrial applications due to the low-cost and very high-performance digital processors and also the decline price of the memory chips. This is the main reason behind the wider expansion of soft computing techniques and its application areas. These computing methods also play a significant role in the design and optimization in diverse engineering disciplines. With the influence and the development of the Internet of things (IoT) concept, the need for using soft computing techniques has become more significant than ever. In general, soft computing methods are closely similar to biological processes than traditional techniques, which are mostly based on formal logical systems, such as sentential logic and predicate logic, or rely heavily on computer-aided numerical analysis. Soft computing techniques are anticipated to complement each other. The aim of these techniques is to accept imprecision, uncertainties, and approximations to get a rapid solution. However, recent advancements in representation soft computing algorithms (fuzzy logic,evolutionary computation, machine learning, and probabilistic reasoning) generate a more intelligent and robust system providing a human interpretable, low-cost, approximate solution. Soft computing-based algorithms have demonstrated great performance to a variety of areas including multimedia retrieval, fault tolerance, system modelling, network architecture, Web semantics, big data analytics, time series, biomedical and health informatics, etc. Soft computing approaches such as genetic programming (GP), support vector machine–firefly algorithm (SVM-FFA), artificial neural network (ANN), and support vector machine–wavelet (SVM–Wavelet) have emerged as powerful computational models. These have also shown significant success in dealing with massive data analysis for large number of applications. All the researchers and practitioners will be highly benefited those who are working in field of computer engineering, medicine, biology application, signal processing, and mechanical engineering. This book is a good collection of state-of-the-art approaches for soft computing-based applications to various engineering fields. It is very beneficial for the new researchers and practitioners working in the field to quickly know the best performing methods. They would be able to compare different approaches and can carry forward their research in the most important area of research which has direct impact on betterment of the human life and health. This book is very useful because there is no book in the market which provides a good collection of state-of-the-art methods of soft computing-based models for multimedia retrieval, fault tolerance, system modelling, network architecture, Web semantics, big data analytics, time series, and biomedical and health informatics.
Download or read book Pilot Patrick written by Patrick Biedenkapp and published by Riva Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tricky maneuvers, curious passengers, and other kinds of turbulence The star DJ who spontaneously invites the entire flight crew to his concert in Rome, the businessman who has his forgotten cigars flown in by private jet, and the oil millionaire who has the stewardesses crawl through the cabin on all fours to the sound of Pavarotti arias—there's nothing that Pilot Patrick has not experienced in his job. Germany's most famous airline captain takes us on a joyride to the most beautiful places in the world, telling us how he made his dream of flying come true, what really helps against the fear of flying, and what you should consider if you want to become a pilot yourself. From wild party nights on the Côte d?Azur to sex above the clouds, Pilot Patrick gives us an exclusive look behind the normally closed doors of the international jet set—and reveals a secret that, until now, has always flown below the radar.
Download or read book Urban Outcasts written by Loïc Wacquant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass', but to the joint withdrawal of market and state fostered by public policies of racial separation and urban abandonment. In European cities, by contrast, the spread of districts of 'exclusion' does not herald the formation of ghettos. It stems from the decomposition of working-class territories under the press of mass unemployment, the casualization of work and the ethnic mixing of populations hitherto segregated, spawning urban formations akin to 'anti-ghettos'. Comparing the US 'Black Belt' with the French 'Red Belt' demonstrates that state structures and policies play a decisive role in the articulation of class, race and place on both sides of the Atlantic. It also reveals the crystallization of a new regime of marginality fuelled by the fragmentation of wage labour, the retrenchment of the social state and the concentration of dispossessed categories in stigmatized areas bereft of a collective idiom of identity and claims-making. These defamed districts are not just the residual 'sinkholes' of a bygone economic era, but also the incubators of the precarious proletariat emerging under neoliberal capitalism. Urban Outcasts sheds new light on the explosive mix of mounting misery, stupendous affluence and festering street violence resurging in the big cities of the First World. By specifying the different causal paths and experiential forms assumed by relegation in the American and the French metropolis, this book offers indispensable tools for rethinking urban marginality and for reinvigorating the public debate over social inequality and citizenship at century's dawn.
Download or read book The Girl from Oto written by Amy Maroney and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Girl From Oto, a young American scholar navigates a foreign world, tasting friendship, betrayal and love as she chases the ghost of a Renaissance-era artist through Europe.American art historian Zari Durrell scores a coveted post-doctorate position in Scotland, studying artist Cornelia van der Zee. As Zari decodes clues hidden in two sixteenth-century portraits attributed to Van der Zee, she unearths the traces of a mysterious artist named Mira. Risking her professional reputation and her own safety, Zari follows Mira into the heart of a mountain wilderness.Woven throughout Zari's quest is the swashbuckling story of Mira herself. Born in the Pyrenees mountains during a time wracked by war, plague, and shifting political boundaries, Mira grows up in a convent believing she is an orphan. A friendship blooms between Mira and Arnaud, a boy whose family helps the convent exploit a lucrative trade in merino wool. But when her peaceful existence is shattered, Mira must plunge into the world beyond the convent's gates to confront the harsh truth about her identity and her uncertain future.
Download or read book The Spiritual Path written by Gregory David Roberts and published by Empathy Arts LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of international bestseller, Shantaram, takes us on a gripping personal journey of wonder and insight into science, belief, faith and devotion. Drawing on common-sense logic, sacred traditions, inspirations from the natural world and the iconoclastic instruction of his spiritual teacher, Roberts describes the step by step path he followed in search of spiritual connection, one that anyone, of any belief or none, can apply in their own lives. This gripping personal account of the Leap of Faith is a compellingly fresh, new addition to such enduring, spiritually inspiring works as Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Road Less Travelled and The Celestine Prophecy. From the Author: "The Spiritual Path is for anyone searching for meaning and connection, for more answers than questions, and for practical help in resetting the spiritual compass." Gregory David Roberts
