Great article in the June issue ("Proficient Pilot: Soar Points").It brings to mind the time I was returning from a wedding in Iowa with my power-plane instructor. As we passed Akron, Colorado, while dodging numerous thunderstorms at night, my instructor said with a slight tinge of panic, "I am flying at full power and best angle of climb and we are still sinking at 1,000 feet per minute, what more can I do?".
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