Hollister Soaring Center

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• Bay Area Soaring Associates

• Pacific Soaring Council

• Soaring Society of America

• World Air Sports Federation

FOR STUDENTS

• Hollister Soaring Center Student Reference Materials

• ASK 21

• FAA Glider Handbook

• Ed Williams - Weather in the Vertical (Skew-T / Log-P presentation): Part 1 Part 2

• Meteorology Videos

• Visual Explanation of Meteorological Skew T Log P Sounding Diagrams

• FAA Airspace for VFR Flight

Weather & More

Hollister A.W.O.S.

Dr Jack's Forecasts

• Hollister RASP

• Panoche RASP

• Byron RASP

• Blipspots

• Blipmap UniViewer

• WINDIP wave forecasts

Tutorials for Dr. Jack's Forecasts:

• BLIPMAP Presentation

• How to read WINDIP forecasts for wave prediction

Other Soaring Tools

• XCSkies

• Skysite.io

Satellite

• Central CA

• Central CA Color Sat

• High resolution Color Sat

• Sat image with wind

• CA Visible loop

• Pacific Visible

• Southwest IR

• Sierra Nevada Sat Viz

• Northern CA

• Monterey closeup

NWS Area Forecasts

• Hollister

• NOAA Weather Forecast

• Zone Forecast

• Area Forecast Discussion

 Forecast Soundings

• Soaring Forecasts

• Hollister

• Panoche

• Taft

• Reno

Measured Sounding

• Oakland

• Edwards

Forecast Surface Maps

• 12 hour

• 24 hour

• 48 hour

• 3-7 day

• Upper air maps

Other Flight Planning Aids

• FAA Special Use Airspace Website

• Avenal Web Cams

• Williams Web Cams

• Kurt Thams' Weather Links Page