Dockweiler Forecast/Flying: Monday, September 25th, 2017

[Bob Kuczewski]

The forecast looks great for Monday (and not too bad for Tuesday either):

  Monday Forecast (made on Sunday Sep 24th at 9:37pm)  

Time	6a	7a	8a	9a	10a	11a	12n	1p	2p	3p	4p	5p	6p	7p	8p	9p	10p
Direction	30	30	40	40	40	290	290	290	260	260	260	260	260	260	250	250	250
Speed	3.0	3.0	6.0	6.0	6.0	9.0	9.0	9.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	9.0	9.0	9.0

  Tuesday Forecast (made on Sunday Sep 24th at 9:37pm)  

Time	6a	7a	8a	9a	10a	11a	12n	1p	2p	3p	4p	5p	6p	7p	8p	9p	10p
Direction	50	50	40	40	40	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240
Speed	5.0	5.0	6.0	6.0	6.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0	12.0

Here's the forecast plot for the week (the times on the plot are local, but the date/time of the forecast is still in UTC time):

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The top plot (red) shows lifting wind assuming that the slope faces west (pretty close assumption). The second plot (green) is the raw wind speed,
and the third plot (blue) is the wind direction.

[Bob Kuczewski]

The forecast wind was delayed by a few hours. It was very light until the last few hours of the day. We flew until sunset with Joe topping the list at 21 documented flights, Bob with 18, and Ed (our newest Friend of Dockweiler ) at 3. That's a total of 42 which fits nicely on 2 pages of 21 each (7 rows x 3 cols per page). Here they are:

Great flying gentlemen.     

[wingspan33]

We want videos!

[Frank Colver]

If I wasn't in Utah now you'd have videos!

Home from Utah Saturday, maybe Dockweiler next Monday or Tuesday, with the Condors.

Frank

[Bob Kuczewski]

We want videos!

Print them out on paper and flip through them like we did when we were kids.

I would like to add vimeo videos to our site some time. I tried a while back, but I couldn't get it to work. The YouTube videos work, but not vimeo.

Home from Utah Saturday, maybe Dockweiler next Monday or Tuesday, with the Condors.

I hope you had a good time and I can't wait for a full report about your trip.

Drive safely!!

[Bill Cummings]

Bob my older model Toshiba didn't have enough processor speed to handle Vimeo but my newer model Dell will produce good viewing with Vimeo. So this could be part of the Vimeo viewing problem or is it not pairing up well with phpBB software?