noel.wade wrote:


Anyone think this is interesting enough to give it a whirl?

I think it's quite interesting and worth pursuing. Winpilots
implementation seems like a good approach, but I not heard anyone
discuss it's worth, and I've seen only the most limited of comments on ras.

Here are some links from people that have pursued this idea in the past.
They seem to be current:

http://www.diff.net/peter/thinking/thermalfinder/


http://www.friulano.it/t2t_eng.htm


http://soaringtools.com/

http://www.pfg.dk/termikanalyse/

A serach for "thermal finder", etc, might yield a few more sites.

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