Originally Posted by
A Squared
Dynamic Soaring depends on crossing wind gradients. This guy's theory is about "dynamic soaring" without crossing wind gradients.
Second paragraph from the top.
As someone else remarked, the opposite of the "downwind turn". If you start with the belief that you can gain airspeed by turning from crosswind to upwind, you know that everything which follows is nonsense.
Exactly. I don't know why some people insist this is the case. It's almost like a mental illness.