Wednesday, March 14, 2012

RASP is nearly a reality

http://www.harrishillsoaring.org/rasptable/RASPtable.html

It's been quite a journey, but the final pieces of RASP are falling into place. A special thanks to someone I've never met, Alan Crouse, a fellow soaring pilot and talented programmer for taking the time to assist me with an area of deep mystery to me-JavaScript programming.

At this point, the model runs each night work and are repeatable while the web display is partially working. We can now move on to validation and verification of the data.

Still more work to be done but it is mostly of the tweaking variety, not the heavy duty lost in the wilderness stuff I've dealt with since Thanksgiving.

Meanwhile, I've been reading Helmuth Reichman's excellent Cross Country soaring in preparation for the coming season. Jam packed with incredibly useful info on techniques, rules of thumb, and experience it would take a lifetime to gain. I'm looking forward to putting it to use this season.