Sierra Del Barón Rojo

The MSL pressure system that causes wave


This is enough to stop you going to work

It didn't stop me however, I have to be at work during core hours, and I have already been granted permission to fly VH-UMS to Melbourne this Friday for its annual inspection - sorry, it would have been fun.




Well excitement, the kind of weather that turns a glider pilot on has occured before we even wake.

Spectacular wave fronts stretch all across Canberra's skies.


Mountain Wave is caused by a steady wind stream being uplifted with standing wave patterns formed by mountain ranges. In the Canberra Cooma region this mode of excitation is formed under some conditions when we have strong westerly winds caused by the displacement of high-pressure systems at this time of the year.