On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 3:24:00 AM UTC-5, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 16/07/13 04:21, Nicholas Giese wrote:

Well, after years of being an armchair pilot in Condor, I've finally booked my first-ever soaring lesson for this weekend. If anyone has any general tips they'd like to pass along, I'll gladly listen! I'm sure the first flight will be very memorable.



Talk to your instructor. Tell them what you like and dislike,

know and don't know, want to experience and want to avoid.



And, of course, have fun!

A lot of the skill of flying is a motor skill, like snow skiing, or kayaking, and as such it is repetition that hones the skill, as well as intellectual work,
So, Fly as much and as often as you can.

Scott.