On 1/21/2011 5:53 PM, mpcehand wrote:
On Jan 21, 6:16 pm, John
wrote:
On Jan 21, 2:04 pm, wrote:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/on...lephoto-lens-s...

Yes! It's always struck me that a little signal processing on the
shimmer you see in telephoto lenses might work to show thermals.
A bit of signal processing would also show birds, gliders, cornstalks,
cu development, and other stuff that the naked eye tends to miss.
Darn day job...

John Cochrane

The idea of a remote thermal finder is already being worked on by a
very distinguished scientist who lives and fly's @ the best soaring
center on the planet earth.
My money is on him.

Pilots in 16 different clubs around the world are now trying to think
who in their club could be working on a remote thermal sensor.

I'm expecting more discussion about which soaring center you could mean,
than about the remote thermal finder.

Personally, my soaring would improve if I could reliably find the
thermal I just flew through.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
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