(Hal) wrote in message . com...
Still learning to benefit from thermalling with another glider and so
far have not realized the benefits. If you are opposite another
glider and observing your progress in relationship to the other glider
how do you adjust your path if you see the other glider in better
lift? I seem to have the biggest problem at the top of the thermal
when the other glider has flattened out the bank angle and seems to
stay in better lift.

He may just have a lower sink rate than you. Differences is glider
sink rate are insignificant when both gliders are racked up tight in a
strong core, but they are very significant when trying to milk the
last 100ft out of a thermal.

If the gliders don't have different performance, and you are being
outclimbed, then go where his is and do what he is doing. It does
require all the pilots in the thermal to be aware of each other and to
continuously adapt. Keep everyone in your scan and position yourself
where you can be seen by everybody else.

Don't fixate so much on the one other glider that you miss the other 3
that are joining you, or the other one that is half a mile away
climbing far better than both of you.


Andy