[aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Mark Newton
Many of you will be aware of the South Australian temp traces available on my web site, at http://slash.dotat.org/atmos/ Unfortunately for most of the denizens of this mailing list, though, the data available at that site is only useful for pilots flying relatively close to Adelaide (because the

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Brian Wade
ROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 7:58 PM Subject: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site > > Many of you will be aware of the South Australian temp traces available > on my web site, at http://slash.dotat.org/atmos/ > > Unfortunately for

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread glenn McLean
8:58 PM Subject: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site > > Many of you will be aware of the South Australian temp traces available > on my web site, at http://slash.dotat.org/atmos/ > > Unfortunately for most of the denizens of this mailing list, though, the > data availabl

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Mark Newton
On thing I didn't mention in my previous posting (it's on the website, but it won't hurt to describe it here...) The new system is able to be customized on a per-location basis. For an example of what I mean, compare the output of a Sydney sample to the output of an Adelaide sample -- The Adelaid

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Philip Armytage
the ball rolling? >From: Mark Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site >Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:13:08 +1030 > >On thing I didn't mention in my previous posting (it's

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Mark Newton
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 09:49:23AM +1100, Philip Armytage wrote: > Would there be anybody out there who would have a second to post to the > group a basic course 101 on interpreting the charts? http://slash.dotat.org/atmos/help.html I threw it together quickly last night, and it's probably

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Phil Irvine
A wonderful effort! Is there anywhere else in the world that has a public resource as good as this? One small point. The colour used for wind speed does not show up well on my screen. Any one else with this problem? At 08:28 PM 8/2/02 +1030, you wrote: > >Many of you will be aware of the South A

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Mark Newton
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:57:07PM +1100, Phil Irvine wrote: > One small point. The colour used for wind speed does not show up well on my > screen. Any one else with this problem? I wouldn't be surprised -- cyan-on-white isn't a very high-contrast combination. I've tried messing around wit

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Brian Wade
IL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:57:07PM +1100, Phil Irvine wrote: > > > One small point. The colour used for wind speed does not show up well on my > > scree

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-08 Thread Mark Newton
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:52:30PM +1000, Brian Wade wrote: > Is the use of dotted lines an option? Not really, no. [ the graphs are being generated by gnuplot, which has dozens of styles for representing data, but I haven't found a keyword yet which can coerce "lines" into "dashed lines".

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-09 Thread John Giddy
Hi Guys, I received the following from a helpful person at the Met bureau in response to a question about how to read their temp traces, which are available from the Met Bureau web site under "aviation" (I think, if my memory is correct) Thanks to Mark for making these charts easily available to u

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-10 Thread Peter Robinson
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site >Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:28:57 +1030 (CST) > >Many of you will be aware of the South Australian temp traces available >on my web site, at http://slash.dotat.org/atmo

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-10 Thread Mark Newton
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 sit

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-14 Thread Owen Jones
Whenever I try to visit the address given I get the message "404 Not Found not found on this server" Is there something else I need to know? Mike Borgelt need not bother replying to this message. Regards Owen R Jones John Giddy wrote: > Hi Guys, > I received the following from a helpful

RE: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-14 Thread David Head
Owen, If you change the .h at the end of the link to .html it will work. Regards, David -Original Message- From: Owen Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2002 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site Whenever I

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-14 Thread John Giddy
IL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site | | | Whenever I try to visit the address given I get the message "404 Not | Found not found on this server" | | Is there something else I need to know? | | Mike Borgelt need not bother replying to this message.

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-14 Thread Ray Squire Squire Engineering
Mark, Your temp trace site is excellent! Thank you! Details for site 94294 (Townsville) :- The North Queensland Soaring Centre is a non profit GFA affiliated Gliding Club operating from Ayr Aerodrome, 80km south of Townsville, North Queensland. We fly Saturdays and alternate Sundays, with regular

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-14 Thread Mark Newton
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:20:37AM +1000, Ray Squire Squire Engineering wrote: > Mark, Your temp trace site is excellent! Thank you! Details for site 94294 > (Townsville) :- [ deletia ] Consider it updated! - mark I

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-14 Thread Peter Rundle
Hi Ray, Just read your note and decided to visit your web site. I wonder if it would be possible for you to speak to the person that maintains your site and ask them to fixup the images tags so that they render properly. For example some code behind the tags reads like

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-15 Thread David Olsen
PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site > Hi Ray, > > Just read your note and decided to visit your web site. > > I wonder if it would be possible for you to speak to the person that > maintains your site >

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Hi David, Yep the site looks a whole bunch better now. > >Thanks for the information regarding the errors in the image tags. The site >does render correctly in IE but I had not checked it in Mozilla. > Yeah another "innovation" from Microsoft. Let's intoduce an enhancement in IE that supports b

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-20 Thread Miles Gore-Brown
G'Day Mark, A great idea and well done. Not sure if you are aware but the GFA owns a very good instrument for determining Temp Traces and the analysis there of. The device is called a Cu-Sonde. The Cu-Sonde is used at most competitions these days as it makes the weather analysis allot easier.

Re: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site

2002-02-20 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:13:05AM +1100, Miles Gore-Brown wrote: > Unfortunately I am not as computer literate as I would like to be so I am > not sure if the Cu-Sonde data files are compatible with your program. I can > send you a Cu-Sonde file for your info. It'd be good if you could. Ju