While the storms were nowhere as server as those around York, Northam and Beverley over the weekend, during January one glider pilot trying to return to Temora had to divert 100km west to Leeton to avoid a storm front; his was a good decision.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Texler, Michael Sent: Monday, 31 January 2011 8:19 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Beverley Storm, take home messages > If you are airborne and unsure if you can safely land and get secured consider staying up and going around storm [if possible] . This was a biggy, the gust front easily extended across 100's of km. You can even see it on the satellite IR loop starting up near Geraldton and moving down. > or even running storm front to another site to be secure. It depends on how high up you can get before cloud forms around you. And how far ahead of the gust front the lift was. If you rode this, you may have ended up over the sea south of Albany. > Better to be at 10000' or 50km away than trying to land in a gust front. Agreed, landing during the gust front would have been likely fatal... Also being out in the open/outlanded with corrugated iron sheeting blowing around wouldn't be much fun either. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
