Mark, well done, but how can we make the temp trace for the days flying available before we fly, ie in SA you can get the Adel Temp Trace from the Met Fax service at around 11:30am and from your site anywhere between 12pm and 1pm
Most X/c days you want to be in the air by 11am and hopefully on track. Maybe it would be better to get either Gawler or Waikerie to do a temp trace for the good days over summer and post this on your site at 9am. The cost could be picked up by a levy on all SA pilots maybe? For the temp trace information to be of benefit to pilots it really needs to be avialable by 9am each day. I was in Renmark last week and missed a 750km day (last Wednesday) along with the Waikerie pilots due to no temp trace info for the day being available in the morning. The day started early with the Cu's popping about 11am and then it was a mad rush to get gliders ready and launch. I launched at 12:30pm and did 600km in 6hrs getting heights of 8000ft. The Waikerie pilots did 500km flights as they launched late as well. Any other suggestions of how we can get temp trace info by 9am? Regards Peter Robinson >From: Mark Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site >Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:28:57 +1030 (CST) > >Many of you will be aware of the South Australian temp traces available >on my web site, at http://slash.dotat.org/atmos/ > >Unfortunately for most of the denizens of this mailing list, though, the >data available at that site is only useful for pilots flying relatively >close to Adelaide (because the atmospheric sounding comes from a balloon >launched from Adelaide airport). If you don't live near Adelaide, the >best you've been able to get is the daily F160 chart from the Bureau of >Meteorology, which has all the useful data on it, but is -- shall we say -- >less than user-friendly. > >For the last 12 months, Daryl Mackay from WA has been lobbying the Bureau >of Meteorology and Airservices Australia to gain access to the data >obtained >from balloon flights all over Australia. His rationale has been that since >the F160 is provided by BoM as a free service, it'd be very useful if the >data behind the F160 was also available. After a year of negotiation, >Daryl has organized access to the information. > >I've spent a couple of days writing software to present it in a useful >manner. I think I'm ready to unleash the results on an unsuspecting >public, so I now direct your attention to >http://slash.dotat.org/cgi-bin/atmos > >This new site contains -national- sounding information, instead of >just the Adelaide data. Simply select the site closest to you and hit >the submit button, and you'll see an aerological diagram produced from the >most recent BoM balloon flight, containing temperature, dewpoint, wind >speed >and wind direction against altitude. > >But that's not all -- You can also look at histoical data. As the BoM >releases >data, it's being sucked into my database, and once it's in the database >it's >never deleted. There's a menu of times and dates which you can pick and >choose once you've told the facility about which launch site you're >interested in. I only have a couple of days worth of data so far, but as >time goes by I feel that this will become quite a useful statistical >resource. > >Have a look at it and tell me what you think. Also, if you have any >friends >in the hang glider or paraglider community, pass the URL to them too. I >want this to be a useful resource for all soaring pilots in Australia, for >compeition forecasters, daily briefings, cross country planning, you name >it. > >So: That URL again: http://slash.dotat.org/cgi-bin/atmos > >Enjoy! > > - mark > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >I tried an internal modem, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton >----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- > >-- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
