Apart from the Grampians, Victoria also has good wave from Mt Donna Buang
near Warburton and Mt Useful and Mt Wellington North of Sale. My best height
at the former is FL250 twice in my Ximango (entry at around 4,000') and
FL220 from the later (ditto). I've had a few climbs to FL16-180 in my
It would be worth putting a map together of wave areas at various sites.
Stitched together they may form a useful XC corridor.
Google Maps can be set up to share information like this.
Jim
On 5/9/2015 8:02 PM, John GWYTHER (BigPond) wrote:
Re: Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 140, Issue 7
Apart from
Nice article, Noel and scary story.
Wave is where you find it. I've flown in wave in the easterly in the
lee of the Darling Range from Byford, the old Perth Gliding club site.
I was the only one flying and unfortunately there was an overcast at 3000 feet.
I've flown in wave a few times out of
The Otway Ranges produce plenty of good wave. I tend to think it is shear
wave because it works when there is no wind on the ground - as well as
windy conditions.
The best flight has been with Geoff Vincent in my Taifun. We pulled out at
18000 ft. because we were using cannula, the wave was still
On August 2nd 1978 a Maule VH-MSM flown by Beverley with Doug Vanstan and
Gordon Wilson as pax. towed me in John Bignall's
New LS3 on its delivery flight to Bothwell, TAS.
We climbed to 10,000 ft. and tracked so the Maule could reach land via abeam
King Island to Wynyard where we refuelled.
I'd
