RASP BLIPMAPs inspire a "North Sea" Turnpoint

There used to be a scan of two pages from the BGA soaring magazine Sailplane and Gliding (Dec2007/Jan2008) here.  The first page contained an article by John Williams (known for his remarkable Scottish flights, one being awarded the OLC 2007 "Flight of the Year") describing his 1016 km wave flight.  To reach the 1000 km distance, he creatively placed a turnpoint 25 km offshore, in the North Sea!  John had to fly out to that turnpoint twice - and that he did in fact gain altitude on that over-water leg!  This "thinking outside the box" strategy was inspired by Paul Scorer's Great Britain RASP BLIPMAPs, which were predicting wave to extend offshore on that day.  The second page gave a map of the flight's turnpoints and additional information about John Williams. 

I was both intrigued and amused by that flight, and thought that RASP operators unfamiliar with RASP's numerical mt. wave prediction forecasts might benefit from reading an actual experience of their usage.  So I posted page scans on the web while simultaneously enquiring about S+G copyright policy.  A brouhaha then ensued, and while I was granted permission to post those pages by John Williams and S+G, I decided that rather than cause further difficulties, or be beholden to S+G, I would remove those scanned pages. 

Sorry you won't be able to enjoy or learn from that article here - to read more details you'll need to obtain a copy of the article yourself.  Still, the main point here is that RASP mt. wave predictions with 4km resolution have been shown to produce pilot-useful mt. wave forecasts.  Additional information about RASP mt. wave forecasts can be found in the RASPop wiki,