Wind monitoring at Bedok Reservoir

[kennyc]

Hi Kenny,

Long time no see. Unfortunately, Windguru predicts that the following week is totally hopeless for slope soaring. Let'l spend the next week building something for better times.

Hiya Joe!
yep been a while, seems like we meet like once a year at the slope.

Not been flying alot lately due to some new flyers indicipline at different areas.

hmm... i am thinking of getting Ready to fly one..
the DG 1000 looks like a good deal.
http://www.aerosmith-hobby.com/ <- look under the DG-1000 yummy!


I still have a filip 600 nib... sigh...

[joe yap]

err is that good or bad ?? i only was saying the wind was strong i had no idea about the directions though

It's not just the wind that makes slope soaring possible. If you are thinking about just wind alone, I can gurantee that your glider will land sooner after launching than during a calm day.

Lift is created when the wind blows directly across a steep slope, when it it starts to vector some of it's velocity upwards. It sounds very simple if it's just being explained in 2 dimensional form. However in real life, the wind also travel sideways. If the slope has a convex slope, some of the wind blowing across it will flow sideways, thus reducing the lift produced. For a concave slope will channel the wind inwards and much of the wind velocity will be concentrated in the area, which produces a lot of lift. To make it worst, wind speeds and directions changes from time to time, even during the peak of the monsoon season. As such, the lift 'pockets' will not be at the same spot all the time, and most people will keep thier planes flying all over to find the best possible spot for lift. When the wind starts to blow at any angle other than dead straight, the lift will drop drastically.

[joe yap]

Hi Kenny,

Long time no see. Unfortunately, Windguru predicts that the following week is totally hopeless for slope soaring. Let'l spend the next week building something for better times.

[kennyc]

err is that good or bad ?? i only was saying the wind was strong i had no idea about the directions though

good if you want to donate your plane to the grabbing trees to the right!

Joe message me if you find good winds there ;)

[nistelroy]

err..

Yah right, went down this afternoon and the wnd is blowing all the way from the left.

err is that good or bad ?? i only was saying the wind was strong i had no idea about the directions though

[joe yap]

Yah right, went down this afternoon and the wnd is blowing all the way from the left.

[nistelroy]

yah man its here

the wind at tp is super strong roughl;y around 12-1 the strongest .

[Vortices]

Ladies and Gentlemen....The season is here!

I was at the slope with Dennis yesterday, The wind was exactly 90 degrees to the slope, costant 10-12 kts occasionally gusting 15-17. The haze has almost cleared.

I flew a powered glider initially but ended up going home to take my ASK-21. It flew nicely. Good to fly her again after almost a year.

However, the crow community has almost tripled....becareful or droppings!! got hit twice.!

The trees also started 'eating planes' there was a glider stuck up in the tree, and congratulation to Dennis to recover his plane...beware all rudder ship!

See you at the slope, have to get back to my DG 1000!!!

[nistelroy]

well

there might be a posibility i might fly a glider it all depends on our brother fit haha.. and i was right its rained today

[Vortices]

pls becareful...no need to scale building...thank you for the effort.

I think no need to fly plane to check wind. The grd level wind must be strong enough to at least mess up ladies hair (long sort) to be consider good enough.
If you can feel the wind and think wind is strong enough to blow away pieces of a4 size paper rather swiftly...pls give me a shout...

thank you buddy.

cheers

ps by the way do you fly glider?

[nistelroy]

sorry dude

sorry dude i could't get the infor from the tp system but i scaled the building to try and help all i can say is it seems like a stalemate sind from here and there is dark forces(clouds) coming in from the east of the hill so i dunno whther you can consider flying today i hope i gave some info at least
there is one way however i can go and fly my estarter to see if its windy haha

[Vortices]

how is the wind...pls thank you..

[nistelroy]

well

the skies are confirm clear now after yesterdays rain

[Vortices]

by the way has anybody checked out the dg-1000?

[Vortices]

thanks. excellent.the haze seems to be clearing with the rain...
how has the wind been?..my no 91086468, pls feel free to sms when the wind is good regardless what day it is...I will then sms to all who are interested...pls reply or sms me with HP no. if interested.