Posts related to El Calafate (Sail plane campaign base)
Hola a todos! Greetings from the DLR Patagonia Wave Soaring Team from El Calafate! The last couple days we had fantastic wave conditions and our glider pilots flew each day and gathered many hours of measurement data. I had the chance to participate in some of these flights and this campaign insight is about the 10 h flight we made on the 25.09.2019 which almost ended on a dirt road out in the middle of nowhere.
Continue reading Soaring Campaign Insights 2: Wave flights with a glider
This series of Campaign Insights is written during the DLR Patagonia Wave Soaring campaign in El Calafate, Argentina in Sep/Oct 2019. The measurement campaign coincides with and supports the SOUTHTRAC campaign in Rio Grande, Argentina. The intention of this article is to give insights into this measurement campaign from the perspective of a student.
It is written by me, Ramona, aerospace master student at the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IPA).
Continue reading Soaring Campaign Insights 1: Radiosonde launching
The wave soaring campaign by the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics, accompanying the SouthTRAC campaign from their base in El Calafate at the base of the Andes, will start these days. The first colleagues from DLR arrived on site, along with the Stemme glider.