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# Gliding Performance

Learning Resources for Aspiring Glider Pilots

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [Posts and Comments](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/posts-and-comments/)
- [Focus](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/focus/) - I flew XC yesterday with an aspiring glider pilot and remembered that I had written a document on appropriate focus as part of my running and psychobabble lectures. It now appears on the cross country page and seeks to explain what you should really be paying attention to at various phases of the flight. Enjoy
- [Polar Curves and Speed to Fly](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/polar-curves-and-speed-to-fly/) - Lots of new resources have now been posted on the Cross Country page including theory and practical hand outs and lectures on understanding the glider polar and choosing the correct speed to fly between thermals.
- [Welcome](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/hello-world/) - Welcome to my gliding site. Please download and use the resources which are all provided free of charge. Look back now again to see if there are new ones that you would enjoy. You will need to register and login to post here.

## Pages

- [High Performance Gliding](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/) - This web site is for aspiring glider pilots. It provides resources created by Jim White to help pilots progress from solo to cross country flying to competition. The information, seminars, and papers are all based upon my 25 year experience flying cross country and competing in the UK at Regional and National level. Not everyone
- [Cross Country Skills](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/cross-country-skills/) - Flying Cross Country is an exercise in task management. You need good planning, soaring, navigation , and workload management skills to balance completion and performance.
- [Soaring Skills - How to soar without flapping!](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/soaring-skills-how-to-soar-without-flapping/) - Pilots need to know what causes thermals, where to find them, how to enter them, when to reject them, how to optimise their climb, and when to leave them.
- [Handicap Task Software](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/handicap-task-software/) - Handicap Tasks were invented to provide a level field task format for handicapped competitions. In this format the handicaps are applied to the the task so that, in theory, equally skilled pilots will complete the task set in the same time. High handicap gliders have to fly further around their task than low handicap ones.
- [Basic Training](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/basic-training/) - This page is for resources that support instructing of new pilots. Not about performance, but more about getting to solo as step towards cross country and beyond. None of these resources require subscription. Circuit PlanningBalance of forces
- [About](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/about/) - I am Jim White. I have been gliding since the early 90's having learned at Booker Gliding Club in the South of England. I started my own business in 1995 so had a short break before starting again at the end of that decade. I bought my beloved ASW27 in 2003 and started going cross
- [Competition Gliding Skills](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/competition/) - Being able to fly a cross country task well is only part of the equation. Tactics, both short and long term, will probably determine the winners.
- [Handicap Task Users](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/handicap-task-users/) - Update Donate Dates
- [Donate Now](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/donate-now/) - This website, its resources, and the Handicap Task Software are provided free of charge. The costs of doing this are supported by voluntary donations. If you wish to make a donation, even if just the cost of a beer, then please either use the PayPal link of QR code below or send direct to: Chase
- [Thank you](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/thank-you/) - Thank you for your kind donation. This will help me continue to develop and support the Handicap Task Software. Any surplus funds will be spent on resources for this web site and in training young pilots to fly cross country and in competition.
- [Cancel Donation](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/cancel-donation/) - I am sorry that you have chosen to cancel your donation. Please come back soon.
- [UpdateDHTDate](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/updatedhtdate/) - DHT use date has been updated
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- [Membership Confirmation](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/membership-account/membership-confirmation/) - [pmpro_confirmation]
- [Membership Invoice](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/membership-account/membership-invoice/) - [pmpro_invoice]
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- [Privacy Policy](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/privacy-policy/) - Who we are I am Jim White. A private individual and glider pilot. Our website address is: https://jimwhitegliding.uk. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from

## Downloads

- [Handicap Task Software](https://jimwhitegliding.uk/download/192/?tmstv=1784572624)

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