Chess In The Air

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A Glider Pilot Learns to Play Mother Nature | This was me right after my first solo flight in this Schleicher Ka8 at Niederöblarn, Austria in August of 1983. Hi! My name is Clemens Ceipek. I’m a glider pilot and I invite you to join me on my quest to become better at the ultimate game of chess: soaring. A glider (also called sailplane) is an airplane without an engine. If you’ve ever folded a piece of paper into a glider you get the idea. The sailplanes I fly are essentially the same thing, just bigger, heavier, and more sophisticated. Like anything that’s heavier than air, they must always glide down until they are back on the ground. But gliding down and landing safely is the easy part. Soaring on the other hand, i.e., staying up and

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