How should a glider pilot signal turns to the towplane? When in aerotow in a glider, I thought the correct way to get the towplane to turn right (say) was to move gently to the left. That would gently nudge the towplane’s tail to the left, which would then point the nose to the right and be a good signal that the glider pilot wants to turn right.

The FAA glider flying handbook displays the opposite technique in a diagram:


I don’t understand this. If you move right to ask the towplane to turn right, doesn’t that put the glider on the inside of the turn, and put you in the wrong place to follow the towplane around?

Which is the correct direction?
The glider flying handbook is wrong. The glider signals to the tow pilot by moving to the outside of the turn. 

We glider pilots have been trying toget the FAA to fix this and many other errors in the GFH for years. See the newsgroup rec.aviation.soaring

Also, many tow pilots ignore tow steering directions because they think they know better than the glider pilot where the lift is.