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New in 2024! You can now purchase eBook editions of almost all of the books I publish. This is particularly helpful for overseas customers - international shipping charges are expensive, but eBooks arrive in your e-reader without shipping cost. If you take the eBook avenue, I suggest that you have a Kindle-compatible eBook reader with a screen size of 7 inches or larger. The eBooks cost only USD$9.99 each - a Good Deal! - and no shipping charge. You buy the eBook(s) direct from Amazon. And the Kindle app for iPad, Android, Mac, and Windows is free, and works well on those devices. All 13 of Bob's Gliding...Made Easy! series books can be purchased as eBooks via this link: Gliding...Made Easy! Books
And seven of the books in the Gliding Mentor Series can be purchased as eBooks via this link: The Gliding Mentor Series Books

Where I fly, an aerotow launch is now more than seventy dollars - not pocket change! Here at bobwander.com, seventy bucks will buy you a number of books and deliver them to your door as well. (And seventy bucks will buy SEVEN of our eBook editions!) And, if just one of those books saves you the expense of just one aerotow launch, your book investment will repay itself. If book study saves you the cost of three aerotow launches, then you will have had a 200% return on your investment. THAT... is as good as it gets.

So, take a look at what we have to offer you. For retail orders in the fifty states of the USA, there is a flat shipping charge of $9.90 for our hard-copy books (includes Alaska and Hawaii). Whether you order one book or ten books, the shipping charge is the same $9.90 fee - and there is no 'handling' fee. We usually ship via USPS Priority Mail - which is airmail, essentially.

When you know what you want to order, fill out the order form, then click and send it to me - and I will ship your books to you and include a simple paper invoice along with a pre-addressed return-mail envelope for you to mail your check back to me. It's all on the honor system - and it's worked well that way for more than thirty years, thanks to all of you honest cats out there! I have added an electronic payment option - via PayPal - if check-writing is not your thing.

Thanks and safe soaring, Bob Wander
Author of the Gliding .... Made Easy! Book Series
Editor and publisher of the Gliding Mentor Book Series.

My Book Series

The Gliding Made Easy Series is a library of volumes about gliding. Each treats an individual topic in depth. Clarity of writing makes them easy to read, and attractive design makes them pleasant to use and to own. Whether you are brand new to soaring or have flown for many years, you will find utility and value in these volumes.

Click "Made Easy Series" in the menu under Books & Supplies

Read what people say about Bob's "Made Easy" series of soaring books

A new series of books edited and published by Bob Wander. Each of these publications will make a significant contribution to enhancing the safety of flight for every pilot who makes the effort to read them and to understand them.

Click "Mentor Series" in the menu under Books & Supplies

Featured Item

Riding On Air: Ridge, Wave, & Convergence Lift
by Rolf Hertenstein, Ph.D. $20.00

The latest addition to the Gliding Mentor series is Rolf Hertenstein's brand-new opus Riding on Air: Ridge, Wave, & Convergence Lift.
What's it about? We think the title says it all. As a long-time airplane pilot and gliding pilot who first learned to fly in mountainous country, I am amazed and delighted at all of the things that Rolf explains in this book that have been a mystery to me for many years.
Most soaring pilots have some appreciation of ridge, wave and convergence lift; I wish EVERY soaring pilot had the depth of knowledge and experience with these types of lift that Rolf has, and that he reveals in this book. We would all be the safer for it!
Riding On Air contains what you need to improve your soaring performance in ridge, wave, and convergence lift. Furthermore, you'll learn why these types of lift sometimes disappear, seemingly without warning to the under-prepared pilot; and that in turn can lead to close scrapes (at best), or to disaster (at worst).
Purchase a hard copy from us here at bobwander.com or purchase the eBook version for $9.99 direct from Amazon: The Gliding Mentor Series Books

104 pages. Riding on Air: Ridge, Wave, & Convergence Lift is a Gliding Mentor series book. General Editor of the Gliding Mentor series is Bob Wander.

Roll Your Own! Free Shipping Offer
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Roll Your Own Package!
Purchase ANY combination of six or more Gliding Made Easy and Gliding Mentor titles (shown below) and get Free Shipping - you save $9.90! Mix and Match Gliding Made Easy and Gliding Mentors books any way you like. We'll pay the shipping cost if there are six or more Gliding Made Easy and/or Gliding Mentor series books in your shopping cart - simple as that! So, G'Ahead! Roll Your Own!
$25.00 Learning To Fly Gliders
$16.00 Everybody's First Gliding Book!
$19.00 Private Pilot Glider Checkride...Made Easy!
$19.00 Commercial Pilot Glider Checkride...Made Easy!
$19.00 Glider Flight Instructor Checkride...Made Easy!
$15.00 Glider BFR & Spring Checkout...Made Easy!
$12.00 Glider Polars & Speed-To-Fly...Made Easy!
$12.00 Transition To Single Seat Glider...Made Easy!
$15.00 The Art Of Thermaling...Made Easy!
$10.00 Badge Soaring: The A,B,&C Badges...Made Easy!
$15.00 Badge Soaring: The Bronze Badge...Made Easy!
$15.00 Badge Soaring: The Silver Badge...Made Easy!
$15.00 Safer Soaring...Made Easy!
$18.00 Towpilot Manual (Compton)
$15.00 Breaking The Apron Strings: Soaring Cross Country (Petmecky)
$15.00 End Of The Line: Glider Pilot's Aerotow Manual (Shain)
$19.00 Practical Wave Flying (Palmer)
$19.00 Cross Country Manual (Carswell)
$15.00 Landing Out: The Final Four Minutes (Ingraham)
$20.00 Thermals (Hertenstein)
$20.00 Riding On Air: Ridge, Wave, & Convergence Lift (Hertenstein)
$16.00 Power Pilot's Guide To Soaring (Shain)

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