No, as the lift peters out, you want to move away from that area. You do
that by tightening your turn. When I feel a spike in the lift, I let up for
a couple of seconds to drift into the area of strong lift and then tighten
up to try to stay there. More often, as stated elsewhere, the thermal is
not circular and you have to do what you have to do. A depiction of the
areas of stronger and weaker lift can be helpful on weaker days, but we
don't have too many of those here.

Maybe I didn't describe it correctly.


"Bill Palmer" wrote in message
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On Monday, July 29, 2013 4:45:35 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
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I learned a long time ago to tighten up when lift falls off and ease up a

bit on the bank when the lift goes up. With practice, you'll get it and

won't need a graphical depiction of a thermal.

Isn't it the other way around? (fly tight circles when the lift is good,
widen out when not (so you can run into it again?)