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Mike Hostage
November 11th 04, 04:23 AM
Hi, I was searching for material to study, to increase
my ability to understand the soaring weather in my
area. I found some links to tutorials on ROAB/skew-T
charts, but they were broken.

I found a site that gives me a current skew-T chart,
but I need to learn more about them. Can anyone point
me to a functional web site with this info?

Mike

Z Goudie
November 11th 04, 04:52 AM
At 04:54 11 November 2004, Mike Hostage wrote:
>Hi, I was searching for material to study, to increase
>my ability to understand the soaring weather in my
>area. I found some links to tutorials on ROAB/skew-T
>charts, but they were broken.
>Mike
Try www.weatherjack.co.uk

BTIZ
November 11th 04, 06:41 AM
http://weather.unisys.com/index.html

http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/index.html

after you pick which SkewT you want and it is displayed, it is with a black
background, at the top of that page, select INV (inverse) to get a usable
white background for copying the graphic and printing.

Also the new FAA-H-8083-13 (Soaring Handbook) has a good description and
also the "Aviation Weather Services" book

Downloadable from the FAA in Acrobat.pdf format
AC00-6A Aviation Weather
AC00-45E Aviation Weather Services
FAA-H-8083-13 Soaring Handbook
FAA-H-8083-25 Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge

and a variety of other Advisory Circulars and books.

BT

"Mike Hostage" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I was searching for material to study, to increase
> my ability to understand the soaring weather in my
> area. I found some links to tutorials on ROAB/skew-T
> charts, but they were broken.
>
> I found a site that gives me a current skew-T chart,
> but I need to learn more about them. Can anyone point
> me to a functional web site with this info?
>
> Mike
>
>
>

Stephen Haley
November 11th 04, 08:31 AM
There is a bit on my UK soundings page
http://www.btinternet.com/~stephen.haley//SoundingsFramed.htm
If any one wants to rip-off this for other countries feel free - it should
be quite easy to convert and tidy up - was done in frontpage.

rgds
Stephen

"Mike Hostage" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I was searching for material to study, to increase
> my ability to understand the soaring weather in my
> area. I found some links to tutorials on ROAB/skew-T
> charts, but they were broken.
>
> I found a site that gives me a current skew-T chart,
> but I need to learn more about them. Can anyone point
> me to a functional web site with this info?
>
> Mike
>
>
>

Chip Fitzpatrick
November 11th 04, 11:21 AM
Richard Kellerman, QV, did an outstanding presentation at Philadelphia
Glider Council's annual ground school. The presentation is posted on
the SRA web site: http://sailplane-racing.org/general.htm

Chip Fitzpatrick

November 12th 04, 10:06 PM
Mike Hostage > writes:

> Hi, I was searching for material to study, to increase my ability to
> understand the soaring weather in my area. I found some links to
> tutorials on ROAB/skew-T charts, but they were broken.

> I found a site that gives me a current skew-T chart, but I need to
> learn more about them. Can anyone point me to a functional web site
> with this info?

If you go to
http://www.bom.gov.au/reguser/by_prod/aviation/national/metar_nat.shtml
and look under the links in the `Sports Aviation' box on the right, that
will get you going. Be aware that the F160 diag that BOM uses is a bit
different to most other logp-skewT charts.

You can also find the last sounding for all au sites from there.

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LarSwan
November 14th 04, 03:25 PM
>the SRA web site: http://sailplane-racing.org/general.htm

This is very good, thanks!

LT

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