On Oct 3, 10:44*am, hretting wrote:
Brad, I thought your come back was funny and I certainly deserve it.

What I get from your opening thread is perhaps your reluctance to
trust the wind information you are seeing or you are looking for
supporting information that would increase your trust in the
information.
Transitioning to ridge would require accurate wind information, but
you write you do this without fear all the time.
If you would elaborate a little more on what you are thinking
regarding wind data , I'm sure others have helpful input and comments.
Myself , operating a 302 with a CAI M-25 backup...they become accurate
as long as I thermal and slowly diverge / degrade with long stretches
of glides. A few turns and I am amaze how quickly they recapture the
wind. I was able to run trials base on observation of smoke coming off
the burning sugarcane fields and learn my instrument.
R

Hi,

Well, I did delete it after I had my morning coffee................. I
sure had a laugh when I hit send!

To your question:

I do feel confident that the wind information is reliable enough to
use within a certain amount of time/airspace. What I mean by that is
since I only get wind info from circling (with my set-up) it is good
only for a certain amount of time until I start circling again. So, If
I climb up and get wind info X, then start a long glide the wind could
be different when I finish my glide and I'll not know what it is until
I start circling again and get a new fix. Probably not a big deal when
I think about it.

So actually it looks like we are similar in our thoughts on this!

I am an avid observer of all wind indicators (learned from my years as
a hang glider pilot).

And...........I actually do down a few psylliam caps every night
before bed, it does help......

Brad