Türisalu has no official weather station within 10 km. Can a Weather Underground garden station 3.4 km away fill the gap for ridge soaring wind?
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Ground handling GPS track analysis: walking 214 meters into 4.2 m/s wind in reverse position (facing the wing) vs failing to make progress in forward position (not seeing the wing). Wind data from Tallinn-Harku station confirms the difference is visual control, not wind conditions.
Leave a CommentThis post was written with the help of Claude Code (Anthropic). Claude built the analysis pipeline, generated the visualizations, and helped draft the article. At…
Leave a CommentAI disclosure: This article was drafted with AI assistance (Claude) under the guidance of a human paraglider pilot. The analysis, code, and editorial decisions were…
Leave a CommentA data-driven study of 5,160 cross-country flights across four European sites, classified by Spatial Synoptic Classification (SSC v3.0). Do post-cold-front air masses really produce the best XC days? The old-school intuition meets modern flight data.
Leave a CommentThe Estonian Environmental Agency reports meteorological observations hourly. On the page dedicated to the wind, two periods are specified: an hour and 10 minutes. I…
Leave a CommentEducating myself on meteorology to enhance my understanding of paraglider flight and being inspired by the story of Mike Vergalla, who utilizes paragliders to collect…
2 CommentsFollowing my pursuit of paragliding, I am studying atmosphere. Recently, I discovered an impressive collection of Russian-language books in the Digital public library of the…
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Вкратце про онлайн-родословные Несколько месяцев назад я решил выглянуть за пределы своего генеалогического огорода Gramps и расширить подходы к изучению семейной истории с помощью онлайн-сервисов.…
Leave a CommentOn the 24th of October 2017, I took part in a seminar by Vincenzo Lagani hosted by the R-Ladies Tbilisi group. Vincenzo gave a broad…
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