General Gliding Articles

As well as stories about my adventures with Alice, I also write other gliding articles.

• Using instruments on cross country flights
  
  This article arose from an online observation that modern glider instrumentation is becoming more complex and requires more attention - to the detriment of keeping an excellent lookout.
  
  
• National Club Class Championship 2003
  
  This article was co-authored with Brian Wade and includes contributions by many others
  
  
• Gliding Competitions: what's in a name?
  
  Explaining gliding competitions to family and friends
  
  
• What's the gliding weather going to be? (Understanding the SkewT-LogP diagram).
  
  This article looks at how to obtain the information necessary to check the forecast gliding weather at your favourite gliding site.
  
  
• Using mobile SeeYou
  
  I use mobile SeeYou (mSeeYou) on an iPAQ 2210 in the cockpit for about 18 months now and a number of people have asked me for help as they start using this software. I am writing this series of articles to codify how I use mSeeYou in the hope that it will help new users and also as I would like to hear how other users have set things up (I am sure that there are thngs I have missed that could be useful to me).
  
  
• Decodes for Area Met Briefings I have got entirely sick and tired of searching through ERSA to decode these - and then find them on a map. So, I have also produced a Google Earth KML file that you can load into Google earth to plot these - so working with the encoded locations in Met briefings is much easier.
  
  Be warned, this file is about 1.2MB and the list is long! One you have downloaded and saved the file, load it into Google Earth and you can then scroll through the list of codes until you find the one you want. Double click the code and Google Earth will select the point and "fly" you to the location.
  
  I do not guarantee that the information is this file is 100% accurate. So use it or otherwise at your discretion
  
  Note: If choose to select ALL the elements, Australia disappears under a mass of Google Earth yellow thumb tacks!
  
  
• RASP areas for Australia wide system
  I am part of an effort to create a unified Australia wide RASP system. We are dividing up the areas in which gliders fly and this Google Earth .kml file shows the areas as they currently stand. Please email any comments to me.