Comments on: A wave weekend http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=463 Gliding weather forecasts for England and Wales, updated by 8.30pm Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:56:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Alan Johnstone http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=463&cpage=1#comment-1397 Alan Johnstone Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:53:20 +0000 http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=463#comment-1397 What a fantastic and interesting review which is going to take me some time to completely take in. Having an engine I fly a lot to different places during winter. My experience is that you often find wave in the most unusual places in all kinds of wind direction (as long as it is strong). Perhaps this kind of analysis will explain these incidents. If the wole gliding community has not found this website yet it certainly will soon. What a fantastic and interesting review which is going to take me some time to completely take in. Having an engine I fly a lot to different places during winter. My experience is that you often find wave in the most unusual places in all kinds of wind direction (as long as it is strong). Perhaps this kind of analysis will explain these incidents.

If the wole gliding community has not found this website yet it certainly will soon.

]]> By: jim white http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=463&cpage=1#comment-1396 jim white Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:38:54 +0000 http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=463#comment-1396 Booker sometimes flies out of a field on the promentary besides the motorway at Lewknor allowing members to enjoy the ridge in the club trainers without having to return to base each launch. In most gliders if the wind is strong enough to work the ridge then you only need about 1200ft above Boo (900 above the ridge) to get back safely to Booker. I believe it has been done on 900ft. On Saturday, I flew for 2 1/2 hours on the ridge from Watlington to Wendover. There were a couple of gliders out of Halton doing it too. May try again tomorrow. Booker sometimes flies out of a field on the promentary besides the motorway at Lewknor allowing members to enjoy the ridge in the club trainers without having to return to base each launch. In most gliders if the wind is strong enough to work the ridge then you only need about 1200ft above Boo (900 above the ridge) to get back safely to Booker. I believe it has been done on 900ft.

On Saturday, I flew for 2 1/2 hours on the ridge from Watlington to Wendover. There were a couple of gliders out of Halton doing it too. May try again tomorrow.

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