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jrevens
 Post subject: Clouds
PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:30 pm 
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I had a beautiful flight yesterday (Saturday) in and around the foothills of the Rockies, west of Denver. Perfect weather, blue skies & probably 100 miles visibility. Same blue skies this morning, but looking out my back door the trees were swinging and bending and the sky was populated with this... a very good sign that it's not a good day to go flying downwind, in or around the mountains. Those ragged ones, along with the beautiful lenticulars are talking to me loud & clear - "Don't even think about it". Weather moving in with a little snow tonight.
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Bill Williams
 Post subject: Re: Clouds
PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 5:54 am 
John. are you sure those are snow clouds and not made made clouds of smoke?


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dickwolff
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:14 am 
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The sailplane folks LOVE lenticular clouds. They'd be up there in a heart beat.


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dan
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:49 am 
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Yup, heard some stories bout those beautifull Tickulars there John, smart move, viewed from terra firma they are a sight, but they can mean just as you say, Backoff!! Hows that Fox coming along? No doubt its a work of art...........Gonna let us take a peak here someday?? Dan


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James Grahn
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:49 am 
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Hence the "mountain wave avoidance route" that takes us south of Denver.
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Rich Brazell
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:39 pm 
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Got "caught" in a mountain wave heading from PHL to LAX in the Bus . Just East of Denver and it felt like we were on a surf board ! AS increased to the Barber Pole (no PIREPS or heads up from our dispatcher...we were on our flight planned route) . :o As we enter the "wave" and speed increased we "throttled" back to almost idle to keep the speed below the Mach knocker ! ??? Only lasted for about a minute ? :P We got to LAX 5 minutes early ! 8) Our gate was not open . That was the bad News . >:( NO BOOM !

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