Book “Gliding and free flight weather” 2nd edition

Glider instructor and forecaster at Météo France, the author has always sought to understand the atmospheric movements that allow non-motorized aircraft to stay in the air. He was also interested in the particular weather situations favorable to long distance flights: 800 to 1,000 km in a glider and 200 to 300 km in a paraglider. He understood that large glider flights are linked to characteristic and homogeneous air masses which depend on a well-defined general altitude current. In collaboration...