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Many Thanks, Ken
That's very helpful

Tim

YSA scored number one in all Canada on Tuesday, May 23 '23 on OLC, in spite of lots of high altitude smoke from Alberta wildfires.

Paul,
Its a fact that fires can generate surprising thermals. We had an example close to home at YSA when our Portuguese neighbours sold their property. The new owners burned all the rubbish, including car tires. Great lift generators, as are cow barns, McDonald's, Burger Kings, paved car parks ...

Ken, I reluctantly stopped using Winpilot because the dealers all dropped it. The reason was that the creator of this excellent software lost interest. Among other things he lost control of the user license key numbers. Too bad, because it was superior to all its competitors. For example the "climb ...

On a cross country flight in my ASW27 I was approaching Mount Seven, BC at ridge top height (8300 ft) flying from south to north. I had easy final glide to Golden Airport according to my Winpilot- driven iPaq. Conditions deteriorated and suddenly I was below final glide. The situation got steadily ...

Hi Ken

Sorry for my late reply to your request for .IGC files

I have literally hundreds of .IGC flight tracks, which I flew in the period 2002-2015. Mostly they are in Alberta and BC but quite a lot in Ontario too. I made numerous attempts to fly to Montreal Soaring Council's field at Hawkesbury ...

Good publicity

Tim

Please check out Gliding in the Canadian Rockies on You Tube. Tim Wood and Mark Araujo have partnered to produce a series of 2 minute videos that are location specific in the Canadian Rockies. The first three are now posted on You Tube, focused on The Lizard Range, Blaeberry River and the mountains ...

Thanks for posting this link Charles.
For gliders, the disorientation coming from loss of horizon and lack of training as to how to survive this situation, is more likely to occur somewhat higher than the scene shown in the video, which all happened not much above circuit height.

-One danger for ...