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Old November 30th 13, 01:41 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Don Johnstone[_4_]
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At 00:43 30 November 2013, Mike C wrote:
On Friday, November 29, 2013 10:22:43 AM UTC-7, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Friday, November 29, 2013 12:17:20 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:

Looks like surface winds at 6 kts up to 47 kts at 18,000' MSL, all

pretty



much perpendicular to the mountains. Hope there's enough thermal

activity



to climb into the wave... ;-P




Where does the wave start AGL?


I have entered as low as 2300 AGL just West of the airport. Usually

higher.

As a rule of thumb look for the height of the inversion, if any. That will
give you an idea of the bottom of the wave.