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  • March 6, 2021 at 9:56 AM in reply to: RASP & Windgram Upgrades #11547
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    Today (3/6) for comparison we have:

    – Old model data presented in old windgram format

    – New model data presented in old windgram format

    – New model data presented in new windgram (meteogram) format

    All are from the same source data. I see only slight differences in the model predictions though the new model is (once again) more optimistic regarding altitudes…

    Old Model, Old Format

     

    N_SCAL_Marshall_windgram-Old-Model

    New Model, Old Format

    N_SCAL_Marshall_windgram

    New model, new format

    meteogram_Marshall

    March 5, 2021 at 7:44 AM in reply to: Altitude caution advisory #11528
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    I’ve been back in the passenger area on several late-day flights from OAK to ONT that seemed to fly a diagonal route down the Cajon Pass.  We were looking up at the ridgeline…   That approach seemed to happen more frequently on north wind days, which always struck me as odd…

    March 1, 2021 at 7:32 AM in reply to: T2C Tip Wand replacement needed #11436
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    Wills Wing is an hour away in Orange County.  Bet they have some :-)

    Wills Wing – Hang Gliding Equipment

    Telephone: 714-998-6359

    February 24, 2021 at 8:20 AM in reply to: RASP & Windgram Upgrades #11399
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    I ran today’s (2/24) as there is a truck running and it should be flyable.  There are some differences in the forecast:

    – New windgrams are more optimistic about the top of lift

    – New windgrams are more pessimistic about the wind direction and forecast stronger winds later in the day.  N_SCAL_Marshall_windgramN_SCAL_Marshall_windgram_new

    February 23, 2021 at 7:46 PM in reply to: RASP & Windgram Upgrades #11395
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    Jerome:

    Relax, the explanation is still metric, but the Marshall sample shows data converted to units more familiar to our local pilots :-)

    February 12, 2021 at 11:27 AM in reply to: Discussion Quality #11289
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    Billie:

    Sorry, I should have been more clear.  I was agreeing that we have some non-member, regular contributors who add value to the forum.  You were an excellent example.

    Guess I owe you a beer :-)

    – Alan

    February 10, 2021 at 12:29 PM in reply to: Discussion Quality #11278
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    I guess Billie’s just answered the “why we allow non-members to post” question…  A non-member, but regular visitor who contributes to the community through his posts….

    Point made!

    February 9, 2021 at 1:22 PM in reply to: Discussion Quality #11265
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    I’ve wondered why we allow any non-members to post in the forums, other than the “Marketplace” and “Rides” areas?  This is a club forum, paid for by club member dues.  There is probably value to CSS members from external posts on gear and rides, but the other forum areas?  Why?

     

    January 31, 2021 at 2:40 PM in reply to: Discussion Quality #11174
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    Don’t feed the trolls…

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ffilm%2F2020%2Fapr%2F06%2Ftrolls-world-tour-review-eyeball-frazzling-sequel-offers-same-again&psig=AOvVaw2k2HBD4sfAL99HiW3q89xs&ust=1612230360134000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCLjM2aHIx-4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ

    November 18, 2020 at 10:39 AM in reply to: RASP & Windgrams #10765
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    BTW, found the bug that was preventing display of Soundings in the RaspViewer from anything other than the current day.  It has been corrected and will start working as soon as my hosting service restarts the Apache web server.

    – Alan

    November 16, 2020 at 7:59 AM in reply to: RASP & Windgrams #10742
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    We’re back… actually been running off and on for the last week at the usual site (soaringpredictor.com or soaringpredictor.info).  I was ready to call it ‘done’ when my hosting provider decided to migrate my site to a new server “to improve stability and performance”.  A couple of extra days to recover from that.

    Anyway,  timing was pretty fortunate as it all happened in the same period.  New power supply, new disk drive and server migration completed.

    Alan

    November 6, 2020 at 11:17 AM in reply to: RASP & Windgrams #10677
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    Progress as a new power supply brought life back into the RASP machine.  Also getting disk errors so work continues…

    RASP-guts

    November 4, 2020 at 6:46 PM in reply to: RASP & Windgrams #10674
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    Thanks, but the shade structure needs it more…  This is mostly a matter of time.

    Alan

    November 4, 2020 at 11:25 AM in reply to: RASP & Windgrams #10670
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    PC used to process RASP and Windgrams died this morning with a dramatic fireworks popping noise.

    Down for the foreseeable future…

    SoaringPredictor charts are processed separately and will continue.

    Alan

    October 29, 2020 at 9:05 AM in reply to: RASP & Windgrams #10633
    Alan Crouse
    Premium Member

    NCEP reports they are back in operation with only slight delays in providing files last night.

    Alan

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