THERMALING

Frequent, quick control pressures are often necessary to hold your position firm against continual changes in the airflow around you.   Also, the more of any control you apply in one direction, the more you might need other way a moment later, to stabilize your attitude.Even so, it is most important to remain steady.   Make a point of sitting straight in the cockpit – not leaning to one side – with the yaw string directly in the middle of your field of view, so you can look through it to the horizon and react instantaneously.   You must recognize that the best results come only through a fluid economy of movement.   We repeat: jerking the stick DOES NOT equal control!