rdarby Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 Anyone ever flown the morning glory cloud up in Burketown in a glider, or any airplane before? There is a chapter on it in The Cloudspotters Manual and it looks like it could be a fun trip up there at least. Cheers Ryan 1
Guest Crezzi Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 Anyone ever flown the morning glory cloud up in Burketown in a glider, or any airplane before? There is a chapter on it in The Cloudspotters Manual and it looks like it could be a fun trip up there at least. A couple of the Caboolture Microlights went in 2014. They wrote up their story for the club magazine here http://caboolturemicrolights.info/docs/HangarTalk_2015_Q1.pdf Cheers John
rdarby Posted February 5, 2016 Author Posted February 5, 2016 Thanks John. I think this one needs to be on the bucket list for this or next year. 1
UltraFlash Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 A mate of mine did it in a powered hang glider a few years ago. He's got photos of it on his page live2fly.blogspot.com It's one of the things I've got on my bucket list as well 1
cscotthendry Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 Ryan: Yep, on my bucket list as well. Thinking of going up this year if time and weather cooperate. From memory, it happens around September. 1
NT5224 Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 About a month ago there was a thead in another international forum about what aviation activity was on peoples' bucket lists. I immediately responded 'fly the Morning Glory'. Most of the other forum members (in the states) didn't know what I was writing about. I posted some links to pictures and it aroused some stateside/Canadian interest. I lived down south in that Gulf country for a couple of years and saw several Morning Glories. It is really spectatcular. The wave fronts can extend hundreds of kilometres. I vowed to go back one day and examine from the air. So that's the big trip. Down to the Gulf, up Cape York and hopping through the Torres Strait, taking in the Morning Glory along the way if we can. Alan
Cosmick Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 I'm still working on "The Morning Glory" at home 3
cscotthendry Posted February 6, 2016 Posted February 6, 2016 I'm still working on "The Morning Glory" at home That's called "Oversharing"!!!
piecrust Posted February 7, 2016 Posted February 7, 2016 Did it a couple years running, worth the trip. Never got to surf one but experienced a southerly morning glory at 4.30 in the morning while checking the plane over. Head to swears island and go fishing for the rest of the trip. Don't expect to see one. Some guys sit it out for a month and still don't get on one 1
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