Charlie's Soaring Stuff

My Gliders

My glider is a Rolladen-Schneider LS-3a N80SK "7H".
- The co-owner of my LS-3 is Nobuo Ueda
I used to be a partner in DuoDiscus N215SH "5H".

Accomplishments

Diamond Badge (US # 902, FAI # 6559)
SSA Achievement award (2000)
Member of the 1999 & 2000 PASCO XC Safety Seminars

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ELY 2000 & ELY 2001

Ely Nevada is an amazing soaring site High Country Soaring has put on an encampment for a couple of years now. I attended the Ely 2000 week and had a great time and finally got around to doing paperwork for my diamond goal

Hilton Cup 2002

Picture's Complements of Pasi Pulkkinen & Marika Orava

3D Renderings of Soaring Flights

You should really check this stuff out.

Soaring Software

SeeYou: this is a GREAT analysis program
Win IGC to POV
3D Studio MAX based rendering

Weather Stuff

Check out the weather page.

Dr. Jack's TIPs and BLIPs
Peter Kelly's Soaring Tips and Ideas page is GREAT
NOAA GOES Imagery (Visible, IR and Water Vapor)
Reno: Forecast, Reno Sat Image, Other Satellite Maps, NOAA Sounding and the UCAR Sounding
For definitions of the indices in the soaring forcast.
Tonopah: Sounding
Oakland: UCAR Sounding
Peter Kelly's Soaring Weather Page
Southern Eagles Soaring Weather Page
Aviation Digital Data Service: Really nice stuff here
Aviation Weather Center
US Information
- Current Conditions
  - Temperature
  - Dew point
  - MSL Pressure & Pressure Trend
  - All 4 Temp/Dewpoint/Pressure
  - 850 mb / 500 mb / 300 mb
- Forecast Stuff -- To be added

Task Planning

Marc Ramsey has provided some planners. They are excel spreadsheets and very useful.
Bob Semans has also provided some standard courses for Minden and (soon) other sites.

Soaring Sites I've flown at

Williams Soaring Center, Williams CA
High Country Soaring at Minden Nevada.
- Intersection Egomaniac # 5
Albuquerque Soaring Club at Moriarty New Mexico.
Ely Nevada
Truckee California
Southern California Soaring Association at El Mirage California
Calistoga California
Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi

I used to keep a list of manufacturers etc. but Marc Ramsey maintains a much better page so I'll just point to it now.

I am also in a partnership in a Duo Discus, Serial # 215SH, "5H". The Duo Discus is the glider that was used for the film 1999 remake film "The Thomas Crown Affair". Our glider, 5H, made its first flight as a US registered aircraft on the 15th of August about a week after the movie was released.

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This is the Duo Discus based at Williams N175DD, not mine though I've flown this glider. I'll add a picture of 5H as soon as possible. This picture was taken by my partner in the LS-3a, Nobuo Ueda.