About the Course
Prerequisites: Glider Familiarization
Approximate time to complete: 2 hours, 15 minutes
In this course, you’ll learn about the forces that act on a glider, and how these forces are created. You’ll also learn about how these forces affect the stability of the glider, and how the different airspeed limits are related to these forces.
It is important that you know this information so that you can understand how the glider will react under different conditions, and so that you understand why you must respect the airspeed, loading, and center of gravity limits specified by the manufacturer.
Purchase of this course entitles you to one year of access to the course material.
Please Note: This course is designed for use by a single individual. It is against the Terms of Use to share this course, in part or whole, with other users, or to teach others using the content from this course. The time and effort that goes into the development of these courses is immense. To ensure that we will be able to offer more courses, we need to collect a fee from every student who takes a course. Thank you for supporting our effort!
Course Curriculum
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1
Course Overview
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2
Nomenclature
- Section Overview
- Video
- Quiz 1
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3
Three Forces
- Section Overview
- Video
- Bonus Video - Stall Visualization FREE PREVIEW
- Quiz 2
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4
Turning Flight
- Section Overview
- Video
- Quiz 3
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5
Load Factor
- Section Overview
- Video
- Quiz 4
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6
Airspeed Limits
- Section Overview
- Video
- Examples - Aerodynamic Flutter
- Quiz 5
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7
Stability
- Section Overview
- Video
- Quiz 6
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8
Final Test
- Final Exam
- Fun with aerodynamics!
About the Instructor
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Russell Holtz
[email protected]Russell is the author of two well-respected and widely-used soaring flight training books in the United States - the Glider Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and the Flight Training Manual for Glider Pilots.
Russell grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.
He obtained his Private Pilot Certificate in gliders in 1995, in airplanes in 1996, his Commercial Certificate in Gliders in 1998, and his Certified Flight Instructor rating in gliders in 1999. He completed the FAI Silver Badge requirements in 1997, and the Gold and Diamond requirements in 1998. Russell has given over 2,800 hours of primary, cross-country, contest, and aerobatic flight instruction, and has over 4,000 hours total time in gliders.
Russell's passion for understanding and communicating soaring knowledge is evident in his teaching.
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Reviews
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Great Visuals!
Rand Baldwin
The videos and other visuals help the student truly understand and quickly develop an intuition for what really happens when wings meet the air.
The videos and other visuals help the student truly understand and quickly develop an intuition for what really happens when wings meet the air.
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Aerodynamics
Paul Norden
Sir; Once again you take complicated material and create an understandable format with razor sharp examples. The material is easy to understand - wish the videos could be watched on DVD. Thanks for teaching your skills and knowledge to us. Paul
Sir; Once again you take complicated material and create an understandable format with razor sharp examples. The material is easy to understand - wish the videos could be watched on DVD. Thanks for teaching your skills and knowledge to us. Paul
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Awesome course
Armida Hollingsworth
This course made me finally understand what makes a glider stall and spin. I got to do stall training in a glider and it all made sense!
This course made me finally understand what makes a glider stall and spin. I got to do stall training in a glider and it all made sense!
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