Michal, First and foremost you need to hook up with the great guys of the SOAR Club there in Chicago. I am sure someone from that group will be contacting you anyway. As for a good rule of thumb on what makes a good thermal day, look for days that have a large differential between the overnite low temperature and the forecast high temperature for the day you are planning to go out. Any day there is going to be a 20-30 deg differential, you should see some good activity. Another good old standby is to look to the sky, if you see the white puffy cumulus clouds forming, there will be thermals that are generating them. Lower wind days are better for working the thermals but there can be some really nice lift out there even on the windiest of days as well. Hope this info has been of some help.
See Ya, Pat McCleave Wichita, KS > > From: Michal Sabala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/12 Tue AM 11:20:28 EDT > To: soaring@airage.com > Subject: [RCSE] soaring weather question > > Hello, > > Thank you to those who replied about my subscribe questions. In the end > Lex added me to the list. > > I'm looking for articles about determining or forecasting good soaring > weather. I'm a beginning glider pilot (and experienced power) but I have > a number of 30min+ flights under my belt. > > I live in a city and can't verify that there are good thermal conditions > based on hawks (there aren't any), wind shifts (tall buildings), etc. > How can one tell that there is an inversion? Are certain air pressure > trends and day/night temperature or humidity patterns indicative of an > inversion? > > I would like to be able with fair certainty to determine if sufficient > soaring conditions exist before driving out of the city. I'm in Chicago > BTW. > > Thanks, > > Michal > > -- > Michal Sabala - rc aircraft builder and pilot > sailplanes, airplanes and helis > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and > unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. > Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in > text format > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
