By Elizabeth Howard a lot about thermals, but now I understand
them. Thanks to Dr. Ian Worley, pilot and professor at the
University of Vermont, I went up in the sky and found out what
it feels like to fly in a thermal. take my students on aerial
field trips because we can see things from the sky that we can't
see so well from the ground," said Dr. Worley. "But more
excitingly, we can have a feel of the sky and learn its shape
—what’s going on in the air—because though the air is sometimes
invisible we can feel it with the airplane. Looking for Thermals
aboard his plane and headed for the sky. off looking for
thermals, those rising columns of air that take gliders, hawks
and butterflies to higher heights so they can glide to the next
thermal and find their way south during migration." But where
would we find a thermal? And, I wondered nervously, what would
it feel like to fly a small plane A Tell-tale Sign spotted a
fluffy cumulous cloud and banked the plane to the left. A
cumulous cloud is the tell-tale sign