Re: [Aus-soaring] Breaking news - not good

2017-09-18 Thread Richard Frawley
My thoughts immediately go out to the friends and family left behind. > On 19 Sep 2017, at 11:36 am, Nelson Handcock > wrote: > > https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/two-people-dead-after-aviation-incident-near-dalby-20170919-p4yvzn.html > >

[Aus-soaring] Breaking news - not good

2017-09-18 Thread Nelson Handcock
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/two-people-dead-after-aviation-incident-near-dalby-20170919-p4yvzn.html ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Warm Fronts on the BOM Weather Maps

2017-09-18 Thread harry medlicott
On 18/09/2017 9:18 PM, Noel Roediger wrote: Hello Peter. Bob’s response is spot on. The warm fronts have always been there. BOM aviation forecasters – in my opinion – have been a law unto themselves. A long time ago I was flying an F27 ADL – PLC – ADL on a CAVOK forecast and on

Re: [Aus-soaring] Warm Fronts on the BOM Weather Maps

2017-09-18 Thread Noel Roediger
Hello Peter. Bob’s response is spot on. The warm fronts have always been there. BOM aviation forecasters – in my opinion – have been a law unto themselves. A long time ago I was flying an F27 ADL – PLC – ADL on a CAVOK forecast and on approaching ADL on the final leg the water of

Re: [Aus-soaring] Warm Fronts on the BOM Weather Maps

2017-09-18 Thread Bob Ward
Peter, I am sure it is the latter. The complexity of BOM weather maps has increased exponentially in the 50 years or so that I have been following them. As more data sites and understanding of the data improves, so too will the charts become more complex and accurate. The downside is that there

[Aus-soaring] Warm Fronts on the BOM Weather Maps

2017-09-18 Thread Peter Champness
Has any noticed that warm fronts are becoming a feature of our weather maps? I can't remember seeing them before, except possibly well south of Tasmania. David Wilson said something recently about our cold fronts being somewhat like the Northern Hemisphere warm fronts that Wallington describes

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] RE: water bags and tanks

2017-09-18 Thread Noel Roediger
George. Contact Clipper Plastics in Vic. They provide the best bags I’ve used. Noel From: George Brown [mailto:ls4...@live.com.au] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 4:24 PM To: Bruce Taylor; 'Justin Sinclair'; 'Gary Stevenson' Cc: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in

[Aus-soaring] [XCSoar] #1687: Keyhole for AAT task

2017-09-18 Thread Bernie Baer
FYI XCSoar users might like to download and test the following version which has had an option for Keyhole type turnpoint sectors with definable start/finish radials added. Regards, Bernie. -Original Message- From: XCSoar [mailto:t...@bugs.xcsoar.org] Sent: Monday, 18 September 2017