A day early on your estimate John
It looked good here in Townsville today; highest cloud base in months and
plenty of convection.
David
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From: John Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] BORING GCWA at Cunderdin
> Oh well may as well boast a bit even though I did not make it.
> Conditions at Cunderdin looked good for the weekend with a heat wave over
> WA. No maximum anywhere in the state below 30C.
> Saturday with trough conditions down the West Coast and 38C forecast for
the
> wheatbelt conditions should be good. Wind looked reasonable from the east.
> Bob Smoothy still wanted a 750 km in his PIK 20E. I thought why not go
along
> as well in the Jantar Std3. He left for Mullewa (380kms) and return for
760
> kms between 10:00 and 10:30. Due to some problems I could not get away to
> follow him until just after 11:00. Things went well with regular 5 knot
> climbs eventually turning into some 7 knots going to 10000'. Things were
> going well under the Cus and not so good in the blue. I reached Mullewa in
> about 3 hours. At this point all the equations still worked. Then we hit a
> quite spot ( 3 knot climbs after a search) and the wind should have
dropped
> a bit. Anyway at 5:00pm I still had 208 kms to go with 3 knot climbs and
1hr
> 45 before sunset. The equations no longer worked. I landed at Ballidu at
> about 6:00pm 120 kms from home and Bob had to motor back 51 kms from home.
> This gave me 640 kms and Bob 709 kms. I eventually got back to the
airfield
> at about 11:30pm.
> Sunday more trough conditions 39C forecast. We thought a late start due to
> the temp difference from yesterday. The Cus started to pop at around 11:30
> am, can't be all bad. So we hastily changed our task to a 314kms under the
> Cus. Iain Russell (Astir Cs)and I took of and we again got 5 knot overall
> averages with a lot of 7 knot climbs to around 10000'. Some clouds did not
> work hence a couple of 3.5 knoters were used. Oh well can't have every
> thing. 112 kph for me. I felt that with good clouds and good heights it
> should have been faster.
> When the conditions are good here they are GOOD!.
> I guess this weather will get to the Eastern State about tomorrow but then
> it will be a week day!
>
> Regards
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> John Orton, Professional Officer Physics
> Physics and Energy Studies, Division of Science & Engineering
> Murdoch University, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia
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