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"Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions
Unless you are closely watching the daily weather and know
it trends, a lot of good soaring days are never taken advantage of. For those who watch the weather, they are rewarded with some great soaring. Oh how I wish that I could have joined all of the ridge flights last week out if Pennsylvania and Tennessee, but I was not watching the weather and the soaring site is not in my local area. I am sure that there are others pilots who would have liked to have also flown then if they where aware of the forecasted soaring conditions. I know that there are those pilots who are watching their local weather who have a lot experience in seeing what is required for good to great soaring conditions. It would be great if we could get a "Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions from your local area. We would like to join you. As an example, soaring pilot Steve M. from the Soaring Sooners puts out an email when he sees good to excellent soaring conditions for his local area. He has been flying out of this area for a long time and when he says it is going to good or excellent, me and couple other pilots with do whatever it takes to get off of work to go fly. It is always worth the 3 hour dive to fly there. I am also on an email list for a group of pilots who fly out of Marion Co. Tennessee when the forecast is good for some great ridges flights. Tom Knauff in his emails, he gives a heads up to when they are expecting good ridge soaring conditions. I have YahooGroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalihinaSoaring/ that is used to alert pilots to good ridge and wave conditions for SE Oklahoma. I would like to suggest that a new Yahoo or Google discussion group be formed where pilots could provide a Heads Up Soaring Conditions Alert for their local area. I know that sometimes there can only one or two day notice, but at least it would give us other pilots a notice to start watching your local weather and make plans for a quick road trip! I live in Tulsa, OK and I will drive almost anywhere that is within a full days drive for good soaring conditions. Here are a few places that I have driven to for good soaring conditions. Talihina and Hinton, OK are 3 hour drive. Moriarty, NM - 10 hours, Marion Co, TN - 11 hours, Marfa, TX - 12 hours, Ridge Soar, PA- 19 hours. I just to fly more and our local conditions are miserable for cross country flights. I will start a new YahooGroup if pilots would be willing to provide a "Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions. Randy http://talihinasoaring.com/ |
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"Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions
Great idea Randy
On May 14, 11:04*am, Randy wrote: Unless you are closely watching the daily weather and know it trends, a lot of good soaring days are never taken advantage of. For those who watch the weather, they are rewarded with some great soaring. Oh how I wish that I could have joined all of the ridge flights last week out if Pennsylvania and Tennessee, but I was not watching the weather and the soaring site is not in my local area. I am sure that there are others pilots who would have liked to have also flown then if they where aware of the forecasted soaring conditions. I know that there are those pilots who are watching their local weather who have a lot experience in seeing what is required for good to great soaring conditions. It would be great if we could get a "Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions from your local area. We would like to join you. As an example, soaring pilot Steve M. from the Soaring Sooners puts out an email when he sees good to excellent soaring conditions for his local area. He has been flying out of this area for a long time and when he says it is going to good or excellent, me and couple other pilots with do whatever it takes to get off of work to go fly. It is always worth the 3 hour dive to fly there. I am also on an email list for a group of pilots who fly out of Marion Co. Tennessee when the forecast is good for some great ridges flights. Tom Knauff in his emails, he gives a heads up to when they are expecting good ridge soaring conditions. I have YahooGrouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalihinaSoaring/ that is used to alert pilots to good ridge and wave conditions for SE Oklahoma. I would like to suggest that a new Yahoo or Google discussion group be formed where pilots could provide a Heads Up Soaring Conditions Alert for their local area. I know that sometimes there can only one or two day notice, but at least it would give us other pilots a notice to start watching your local weather and make plans for a quick road trip! I live in Tulsa, OK and I will drive almost anywhere that is within a full days drive for good soaring conditions. Here are a few places that I have driven to for good soaring conditions. Talihina and Hinton, OK are 3 hour drive. Moriarty, NM - 10 hours, Marion Co, TN - 11 hours, Marfa, TX - 12 hours, Ridge Soar, PA- 19 hours. I just to fly more and our local conditions are miserable for cross country flights. I will start a new YahooGroup if pilots would be willing to provide a "Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions. Randy http://talihinasoaring.com/ |
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"Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions
On May 14, 11:04*am, Randy wrote:
Unless you are closely watching the daily weather and know it trends, a lot of good soaring days are never taken advantage of. For those who watch the weather, they are rewarded with some great soaring. Oh how I wish that I could have joined all of the ridge flights last week out if Pennsylvania and Tennessee, but I was not watching the weather and the soaring site is not in my local area. I am sure that there are others pilots who would have liked to have also flown then if they where aware of the forecasted soaring conditions. I know that there are those pilots who are watching their local weather who have a lot experience in seeing what is required for good to great soaring conditions. It would be great if we could get a "Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions from your local area. We would like to join you. As an example, soaring pilot Steve M. from the Soaring Sooners puts out an email when he sees good to excellent soaring conditions for his local area. He has been flying out of this area for a long time and when he says it is going to good or excellent, me and couple other pilots with do whatever it takes to get off of work to go fly. It is always worth the 3 hour dive to fly there. I am also on an email list for a group of pilots who fly out of Marion Co. Tennessee when the forecast is good for some great ridges flights. Tom Knauff in his emails, he gives a heads up to when they are expecting good ridge soaring conditions. I have YahooGrouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalihinaSoaring/ that is used to alert pilots to good ridge and wave conditions for SE Oklahoma. I would like to suggest that a new Yahoo or Google discussion group be formed where pilots could provide a Heads Up Soaring Conditions Alert for their local area. I know that sometimes there can only one or two day notice, but at least it would give us other pilots a notice to start watching your local weather and make plans for a quick road trip! I live in Tulsa, OK and I will drive almost anywhere that is within a full days drive for good soaring conditions. Here are a few places that I have driven to for good soaring conditions. Talihina and Hinton, OK are 3 hour drive. Moriarty, NM - 10 hours, Marion Co, TN - 11 hours, Marfa, TX - 12 hours, Ridge Soar, PA- 19 hours. I just to fly more and our local conditions are miserable for cross country flights. I will start a new YahooGroup if pilots would be willing to provide a "Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions. Randy http://talihinasoaring.com/ Randy, We have the best forecasting systems in history available to us. It takes very little effort to find out about soaring conditions anywhere in the US. Subscribe to BlipMaps and watch what's happening two days in advance. Why this whining about others having to do the work and then to get the information to YOU? You were not watching the weather? Tough luck, be more proactive next time, learn about diagnosing the situation and use the gray matter between you own eyes! Herb, J7 |
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"Heads Up" to Good Soaring Conditions
Local knowledge plays a big part no matter where you live and fly.
We have pilots who travel 4-8 hours to fly wave and ridge soaring in SE Oklahoma. I provide a lot of information to them about this area that you will not see on a Blip Map. I have flown enough in this area that I can let other pilots know that it will be worth there time time drive here to fly. I am willing to share my local knowledge with anyone will to fly with us. That is why I created our Talihina website. There is no way I can learn enough local knowledge everywhere I want to fly. It would be foolish to drive to hundreds of miles to fly without information/work from the local pilots. I very much appreciate the info that I get from other pilots about their flying sites and most are very willing share it. Some share it in emails, phone calls and magazines/books. One of my most favorite books on soaring is "Soaring Beyond the Basics" written by Dale Masters. He did a lot of work that I gratefully use. Dale provided a lot of information for all of us and he did the work. There is much to be learned from this book that can be applied to almost all soaring conditions. I am willing learn from everyone who provides useful information. This is not a selfish sport. We all can learn a lot from each other. Randy http://talihinasoaring.com/ Randy, We have the best forecasting systems in history available to us. *It takes very little effort to find out about soaring conditions anywhere in the US. *Subscribe to BlipMaps and watch what's happening two days in advance. *Why this whining about others having to do the work and then to get the information to YOU? *You were not watching the weather? *Tough luck, be more proactive next time, learn about diagnosing the situation and use the gray matter between you own eyes! Herb, J7 |
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