On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 11:05:30 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 3:30:05 PM UTC-8, Paul T wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/canglide/


https://mailchi.mp/d9152c5ad06d/s01e31?
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One slight issue is the authors tendancy not to do his research i.e.
'1,000km flights haven’t been easy to come by, one had never been
flown in North America in December. '

Tito in 2017? Cummings in 2913? I'm sure there have been a few
before?

Never let the truth get in the way of a great article eh?

Satellite loop photos this AM (12/20) showed the Chinook wave setup from north of Calgary all the way to Yellowstone.

The Cninook Arch wave system is generally thought to be a larger scale phenomenon than the typical lee waves behind mountain ranges. I have seen a satellite image of a crisply defined Chinook Arch stretching all the way from Anchorage Alaska to Denver. To my knowledge, the only serious campaign to connect with the Chinook Arch was by Tim Wood, self-launching out of Pincher Creek.

What Chester Fitchett (and co-pilots Guy Peasley, Patrick McMahon, Gerald Ince) and other CuNim members - always a risk to start naming names - have done this wave season is simply outstanding. They are building on accomplishments by Phil Stade, Kerry Stephenson, Tony Burton and others out of CuNim and Cowley, and Vaughn Allen self-launching out of Claresholm. The best explanation of the southern Alberta wave systems formally published to date is by Vaughn, published in Free Flight, the Soaring Association of Canada magazine (my apologies for not provided a direct link; the search feature did not work this evening).

As Chester says,"Plenty to learn", more to come.