Thamm Wolfgang

See this interesting article from “Chess in the air” author Clemens Ceipek:

There are many good sites, blogs and YouTube channels. Here is one of them, with a focus on soaring safety: https://chessintheair.com/risks-and-risk-mitigation/

Are you of the whata coulda donna type? a Flight recorder along with OLC and SeeYou is the perfect combination. The cost? As little as nothing. What do you get? A full 3D flight replay with number of thermals, glides, the works. What does it take? A flight recorder. On an Android phone, that could … Read more

Between 7/17 and 7/25/21 you can fly every day for 9 days! And during the encampment week, there will be ground school, simulator check-out, check-rides and probably a first solo or two or… Plus, the weather is guaranteed to be stellar – as it has been for several years in a row on this legendary … Read more

Here again a selection of weather tools. May the best weather win:Airnet:http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi?Submit=Go&sta=KDYL&state=PA Wunderground:https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/pa/hilltown/40.32,-75.24 Windy:https://www.windy.com/40.342/-75.253?39.863,-75.253,8 Dr. Jack:http://www.drjack.info/BLIP/NAM/NE/index.html  

Here is one, which presents a good forecast for aviation: http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi?Submit=Go&sta=KDYL&state=PA And you’ve probably heard about Skysight – a very compelling tool, if for no other reason than how the weather is presented. It does come at a cost: https://skysight.io/  

Not looking like much of a weekend.  Perversely Sunday (Mothers’ Day) is the more promising of the two days.   Saturday we might even be below basic VFR mins for much of the day, plus there is a decent chance of rain.   Sunday could produce climbs to 5,000 ft or so, with cu.  Wind … Read more

Richard K. has offered to provide a regular PGC spot forecast. It will be posted on our website.