Your first cross-country

Leaving the home field for the first time: what to prepare, how to stay within reach of a field all the way, and when to decide on a landing. Landing out is part of the game.

What you learn

• Prepare weather, airspace, task, crew and trailer
• Work out your glide cone with a safety margin
• Stay high, in the upper part of the working band
• Choose a field by about 450 m and commit by 300 m
• See landing out as part of cross-country flying

In playlists

• Gliding and soaring

Also on

• Video course: Soaring