The final glide computer

How a glide computer works out whether you make it home: distance over glide ratio plus a safety height, the wind it measured in your circles, and your MacCready setting. In the mountains it also checks the pass on the way.

What you learn

• Work out the height needed: distance ÷ glide ratio + safety
• See how a headwind cuts the glide over the ground
• Know what the MacCready setting does to the arrival height
• Read the arrival bar and the red terrain cross
• In the mountains, check the pass, not only home

In playlists

• Navigation
• Gliding and soaring

Also on

• Video course: Soaring