Cross-country soaring
Pri rozmýšlaní, ako výstižne začať tento článok, ma napadlo jediné, opýtať sa "Uncle Google". Takže si požičiavame výňatok z článku "What is soaring" z Soaring society of america.
Cross-country flying
When you have earned your private pilot glider certificate, you'll find the best is yet to come. As your skills and confidence improve, you will learn to leave your home field, head out on cross-country flights, work for proficiency badges, and perhaps enter soaring contests. Numerous fly-ins and badge and wave camps offer soaring pilots and their families and friends a chance to vacation and fly in some of the most beautiful parts of the country.
The accomplishment of flying from one airfield to the next, leaving the comfort of known thermal sources and home field familiarity, is a thrill unequaled in any other sport. The pilot must draw on his accumulated knowledge of the ground and the air mass, navigation, and flying skills plus a dash of adrenalin. Even the most experienced pilots never lose the exhilaration of "heading out on course."
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