wave
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- July 14, 2021
Editors Note: This article discusses flight near clouds. Check cloud clearance requirements in your country and personal minimums before attempting.
Thermal wave or shear wave as it’s commonly known as is quite reliable. They can form over an extensive area, over a single cumulus, or in the blue. The basics on how they form, they simply need a change of wind direction or a change in speed
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- August 19, 2020
Searching the sky for the best lift is endlessly challenging. Decision-making is essentially a three-stage procedure. Firstly, continually analyze all relevant factors – the wind, sun, ground surface, and the shape and texture of the clouds throughout the flight. Secondly, use all your experience of ridges, convergence, wave, thunderstorms to process this information. Then try to build a mental picture
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- January 24, 2018
I spent the day with a student from MN and he got to experience some wave, it was small and we only climbed about 700 ft above release, but it was better than landing so it was a win, and it was mid-January and we are flying... Most of our day was climb 50 ft lose 30.... it was a slow climb. The average climb rate would be better if we could climb the entire time, so let’s avoid losing 30 ft each time.
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- December 27, 2017
I am not sure how many of you watched the Pan-Americans in early Dec but the US team blog can be found here. It was in Argentina and as expected for any international contest the weather was less than stellar. They had 2 1000point days in 7 flying days for the 15-meter class.
One might say, 'Boy am I glad I did not travel that far to fly 5 weak days and 2 reasonable days.' This is the same mentality -
- April 12, 2017
I am not referring to flying a task in wave at a mountain site where you would plan to race in wave. Let's start by thinking about it from a pre-start and work our way around the course.
In a previous article I talked about recognizing wave on task and how I used it to get the last climb of the day and made it home, winning the day and getting a final spot on the podium.
Wave can set-up in flatlands