





Once the books are in circulation the next step is to create an online resource. I'm regularly coaching mountain flying in one of the most interesting soaring environments in the world - out of Omarama in the South Island of New Zealand - and this gives me great opportunities to explore almost all of the soaring phenomena that you are likely to come across anywhere. It's quite easy to construct lesson plans to show things like carpet winds triggering thermals and sea breezes sneaking up to wash you down the side of mountains. Even the hydraulic jump underneath a wave system can be explored, demonstrated, filmed.

With luck (if I'm spared, as my grandma used to say) I'll be able to illustrate the content from the books using short videos filmed at Omarama - and indeed, from all the other places I am lucky enough to work.

So it's quite a project, this will take some time! You can help me by taking an interest, buy the books, let me know what works for you and what doesn't, tell your soaring friends if you like the content, help me to create a "Soaring Engine" community and some momentum to move this thing forward.