SAM AND LEIGH ZIMMERMAN wrote:
I am looking for an article from several years ago that discussed the
relative importance of climb rate as compared to speed to fly between
thermals. This was a fairly detailed comparison of percentage impact on net
speed, emphasizing that 5-10mph cruise errors was far less important than
selection and optimal use of best thermals. If anyone remembers where this
article is , I would appreciate your helping me find it. Thanks, SZ


Try this:
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.c...s/newmcred.pdf
and:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~arjanvd/flyingfaster.pdf

Shawn