On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:03:11PM +1030, Peter Robinson wrote: > how can we make the temp trace for the days flying available before we fly, > ie in SA you can get the Adel Temp Trace from the Met Fax service at around > 11:30am and from your site anywhere between 12pm and 1pm The new site is much faster - The data is available here within fifteen minutes of its publication by the BoM. I'm getting Adelaide data by about 11am, I think.
> Maybe it would be better to get either Gawler or Waikerie to do a temp > trace for the good days over summer and post this on your site at 9am. > The cost could be picked up by a levy on all SA pilots maybe? I can accept "custom" trace data if clubs wish to provide it. If there's a demand for that kind of thing it won't be too hard to organize. I can easily build a password-protected web page which clubs can use to submit the results from their own trace flights, and those clubs would show up in the pop-up menu as another "location", with the trace's submission date on the "Select time/date" menu. If anyone wants to pursue this, can they email me direct to sort out a standardized file format for the exchange of this data? It doesn't have to be the same as the format I get from the BoM, I can work with whatever is easiest to generate (e.g., if you have some kind of instrument package which exports its results to a file on a computer, I can probably just accept that file, saving you from having to translate the data before you send it). You don't have to send all of the data sets, either: The code which generates the graphs doesn't care if you leave-out wind speed, wind direction or dew point (or temperature, for that matter -- but the As for a levy: It could conceivably be to a club's benefit to just do it -- Think about it: If you fly a trace and put the result up where everyone can see it, you really only need to convince a couple of pilots that today would be a good day to fly to raise enough revenue to pay for the trace. It isn't too hard to see that making a trace widely available could be a revenue-positive action for a club to take -- You make money when people hire the aircraft and fly them, not when the aircraft are left in the hangar :-) > For the temp trace information to be of benefit to pilots it really > needs to be avialable by 9am each day. That's the problem - the balloon isn't (generally) launched by 9:00am. But, like I said, if you have some alternative way of getting the data, I can work with you to help you get it published. Contact me off-list and we'll see what we can work out. - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.