Posted: 4/4/2009 7:21:51 PM EDT
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Found this on another board and thought I'd share. Pretty cool and has anyone here actually seen cloud formations like this?
http://www.crystalinks.com/lenticular.html |
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I got my poilots license along the front range in Colorado - we don't have single peaks big enough for flying saucer ones, but we have elongated ridge-formed ones all the time, if you know what to look for.
Knowing what to look for was beaten into my head early, often, and repeatedly as a student pilot. It's even freakier when you spot an honest to goodness rotor cloud. I've seen one defined one, and "horizontal tornado" is the only applicable description. |
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Boob clouds are better http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd185/toyotatacoma03/Misc/Boobclouds.jpg The mamatus clouds are harbingers of very bad things! Especially if you are a plane. Lenticulars are also bad joojoo and you dont want to be anywhere near those suckers while flying. Severe turbulence is often associated with them. |
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"Wave lift" of this kind is often very smooth and strong, and enables gliders to soar to remarkable altitudes and great distances. The current gliding world records for both distance (over 3,000km) and altitude (14,938m) were set using such lift.
Holy shit!! During the gliding training in FSX, the trainer says that same thing. |
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Boob clouds are better http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd185/toyotatacoma03/Misc/Boobclouds.jpg Ok, I would DEFINITELY shit my pants if I looked outside and saw something like that in the sky  How are clouds like that formed? |
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Boob clouds are better http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd185/toyotatacoma03/Misc/Boobclouds.jpg Ok, I would DEFINITELY shit my pants if I looked outside and saw something like that in the sky How are clouds like that formed? usually clouds like that are associated with t-storms and tornadoes! they are mammatus or mammatocumulus |
| I got my gold alt/alt gain in wave lift on Wheeler Peak, New Mexico in 1973. Got to just over 25,000. The rotor can be a killer but we got through it with just a little problem (my sailplane was ahead of tthe tug instead of behind it). The cold was the biggest problem. We were using Denver Center. A United 373 routed around us. I looked down to see him pass. Really cool as I was in a 126- steel tube, wood and fabric made in 1955- the year I was born. I was up just over 4 hours. Go see SSA (Soaring Society of America). WJ |
