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.
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