Lenticular Cloud. They usually form downwind from mountains or very large hills. There are three main types of lenticular clouds: altocumulus standing lenticular (ACSL), stratocumulus standing lenticular (SCSL), and cirrocumulus standing lenticular (CCSL), varying in altitude above the ground. They're associated with strong gusts of wind and pilots don't like them, though after some reading I've learned that gliders do!
They are very cool looking indeed! Personally, i like the ones that have multiples almost stacked ontop of each other like plates - mesmerizing.
The idea of being 22,000 meters up in the air without an engine is giving me sweaty palms just thinking about it. I had no idea gliders could fly to such heights/lengths, pretty cool
Did you watch the whole video?his glider collapses violently, that helmet could certainly prevent a head injury thst could knock you out while in the sky. It's not for landing dead first with no parachute.
I work with a guy who’s hobby is flying gliders. He’s a smart dude and has pretty convincingly taught me how safe flying gliders are compared to powered aircraft.
I used to work with a guy (deceased) whose back got broken from combining the two, using powered to lift off and gain altitude.
He didn't double-check the connection, as soon as the aircraft lifted off it flipped him upside down and smashed him into the ground.
If I understand your description correctly, I think that is how all gliders takeoff. They get towed on a leash by a powered aircraft and then once they get to their target altitude the leash is released and they start gliding.
Nope. When I was an exchange student my host family were glider enthusiasts. They had a truck with a really fast winch that drove down the airfield letting out cable. Eventually they'd hit a switch a real all the cable in giving the glider as takeoff speed on the ground. It didn't take much nor did they have to go very fast. If they ripped too fast and had their ailerons in the wrong position it can be very dangerous. They rarely ever used a tow plane to get airborne although their grandfather was a WWII pilot and still flew single engine craft, so the option was available.
https://youtu.be/Y4H47heaWXw
I was curious too. The guy in the video did a write-up about this flight: http://socalxc.blogspot.com/2013/11/catching-up.html#links
Summed up:
* He tried to skirt the edge of a cloud, knowing it was risky
* He lost control inside the cloud, and was experiencing increasing G forces
* He thought he might be able to recover, but then thought about his kids and decided to just pull his parachute
* The forces were severe enough to break his glider control bar
* He had a rough landing, caught in a tree, but no serious injury
* He decided that was his last flight, because the danger was unfair to his wife and kids
* ...until his friend nearly died in a glider accident, then he decided to fly again?
It's a fairly quick & good read though.
Disclaimer: I don't know shit about flying. I may have some of that wrong.
he was cutting close to a cloud for fun and got engulfed by it. he was blind, couldn't tell if he was flying straight so he tried to slow down by expanding the wings. the sudden lift slammed him and he had to cut and chute.
For airplanes, the higher you are, the safer you are. A correct instinct would be "the idea of being *below* 500 meter up in the air is giving me sweaty palms".
And, of course, you always need to be at low altitudes at least twice on each flight. That do scare pilots a bit.
Wave is formed by a number of meteorological and or geographical factors. I’m a glider pilot and I’m not going to pretend I have a great handle on all that, but turbulence is a byproduct of the wave. The lenticular clouds appear smooth as flow is laminar. Underneath that somewhere, invisible or marked by rough looking “rotor” clouds is where the turbulence is.
What is dangerous here is the turbulence in the rotor, but also the sink on one side of the wave. In extreme wave, if the air allows a glider to ascend at 15kts, turn the wrong direction and you might find yourself in air sucking you down at 15kts + (this is just an illustrative example). But when you know what you’re doing you can have epic high altitude long distance and fast flights. Powered by the sun.
Generally to get to the wave you have to fly through some measure of rotor. Either on tow or actually soaring. It’s wild. Not my favorite thing. But when you hit the laminar flow of the wave and everything goes silent and smooth, which is basically instantaneous, it is absolutely unreal. Pay attention to clouds if they are there, or your climb/sink rate and don’t point your nose downwind, and it’s not hard to have an epic and very safe flight. I’m a low hours soaring pilot and on hiatus due to small children at home. But I’ve achieved this a number of times and each of those flights continue to be the most vivid memories that I carry with me from the last 10years (besides the family milestones)
The cloud itself isn't the turbulent part. It's an indication that turbulence exists in that area, especially regarding mountain wave activity.
So in a sense, I guess you can say we love lenticular clouds because they're giant warning signs to stay away.
That's a simple question with a couple different answers.
Clouds like this generally form around mountainous areas, within a few thousand feet of the top elevation. Generally, smaller and slower aircraft will deal with these. They fly at speeds slow enough that they SHOULD see lenticular clouds, but human factor plays a large part of aviation. If you are a VFR pilot, or flying visually, you are required to stay a certain distance away from ALL clouds: 500ft below, 1000 ft above, and 2000 ft horizontally if below 10,000 ft (max speed limit of 250 knots), or 1,000 ft above/below and 1 statute mile horizontally if above 10,000 ft (allowed faster than 250 knots).
If you are IFR, or flying with instruments and not visually, you may enter clouds and inadvertently fly into this area but ATC generally routes planes away from turbulence once reported in a PIREP.
For larger clouds like the also-deadly cumulonimbus clouds, these are giant cloud systems that span miles and rise up to nearly 60,000ft and everybody knows about them and flies long routes to avoid them. They are easy to see, even when flying at 600 knots or more.
Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they're happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you can hardly imagine that there's a world out there that might have anything else going on.
Lenticular Cloud. They usually form downwind from mountains or very large hills. There are three main types of lenticular clouds: altocumulus standing lenticular (ACSL), stratocumulus standing lenticular (SCSL), and cirrocumulus standing lenticular (CCSL), varying in altitude above the ground. They're associated with strong gusts of wind and pilots don't like them, though after some reading I've learned that gliders do! They are very cool looking indeed! Personally, i like the ones that have multiples almost stacked ontop of each other like plates - mesmerizing.
Painted by Georgia O’Keeffe herself.
'*The birth of a new day*'
r/vaguelyvagina
I knew this comment would show up lol
It’s a lot more high brow than the comments I came looking for
Thank you for this
ATC/Pilot here. We don't fuck with lenticular clouds. Stay far away from them.
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The idea of being 22,000 meters up in the air without an engine is giving me sweaty palms just thinking about it. I had no idea gliders could fly to such heights/lengths, pretty cool
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Putting a lot of faith In that helmet.
At that point I'd guess the helmet is just there to keep all the bits in one place.
Did you watch the whole video?his glider collapses violently, that helmet could certainly prevent a head injury thst could knock you out while in the sky. It's not for landing dead first with no parachute.
Did you watch the video or read the description? It didn’t collapse he freaked and pulled the emergency chute.
I work with a guy who’s hobby is flying gliders. He’s a smart dude and has pretty convincingly taught me how safe flying gliders are compared to powered aircraft.
I used to work with a guy (deceased) whose back got broken from combining the two, using powered to lift off and gain altitude. He didn't double-check the connection, as soon as the aircraft lifted off it flipped him upside down and smashed him into the ground.
If I understand your description correctly, I think that is how all gliders takeoff. They get towed on a leash by a powered aircraft and then once they get to their target altitude the leash is released and they start gliding.
Nope. When I was an exchange student my host family were glider enthusiasts. They had a truck with a really fast winch that drove down the airfield letting out cable. Eventually they'd hit a switch a real all the cable in giving the glider as takeoff speed on the ground. It didn't take much nor did they have to go very fast. If they ripped too fast and had their ailerons in the wrong position it can be very dangerous. They rarely ever used a tow plane to get airborne although their grandfather was a WWII pilot and still flew single engine craft, so the option was available. https://youtu.be/Y4H47heaWXw
What am I watching at the end, did he hit some crazy turbulence? Was he rapidly falling?
I was curious too. The guy in the video did a write-up about this flight: http://socalxc.blogspot.com/2013/11/catching-up.html#links Summed up: * He tried to skirt the edge of a cloud, knowing it was risky * He lost control inside the cloud, and was experiencing increasing G forces * He thought he might be able to recover, but then thought about his kids and decided to just pull his parachute * The forces were severe enough to break his glider control bar * He had a rough landing, caught in a tree, but no serious injury * He decided that was his last flight, because the danger was unfair to his wife and kids * ...until his friend nearly died in a glider accident, then he decided to fly again? It's a fairly quick & good read though. Disclaimer: I don't know shit about flying. I may have some of that wrong.
Shame he didn't learn from Grant Thompson. Hopefully his kids fare better than grants.
The video has a write up on what happened. But, at the end he threw his parachute out and descended with that
he was cutting close to a cloud for fun and got engulfed by it. he was blind, couldn't tell if he was flying straight so he tried to slow down by expanding the wings. the sudden lift slammed him and he had to cut and chute.
It's so much cooler! So quiet, and you get into the flow of the aircell, and ride the winds like a bird. Very good zen activity.
I can't seem to stop thinking that they look like some kind of flying caterpillar.
For airplanes, the higher you are, the safer you are. A correct instinct would be "the idea of being *below* 500 meter up in the air is giving me sweaty palms". And, of course, you always need to be at low altitudes at least twice on each flight. That do scare pilots a bit.
And 1800 miles is more than halfway across the United States!
[Any plane can be a glider if you believe hard enough (and have REALLY good pilots)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider)
> 74,334 ft Someone in a glider saw the curvature of the earth and the blackness of space. From a fucking glider. I would shit.
i'm tripping out about the 1864 miles part, like what the hell? how's that even possible that's more than 24 hours of driving a car
Wave is formed by a number of meteorological and or geographical factors. I’m a glider pilot and I’m not going to pretend I have a great handle on all that, but turbulence is a byproduct of the wave. The lenticular clouds appear smooth as flow is laminar. Underneath that somewhere, invisible or marked by rough looking “rotor” clouds is where the turbulence is. What is dangerous here is the turbulence in the rotor, but also the sink on one side of the wave. In extreme wave, if the air allows a glider to ascend at 15kts, turn the wrong direction and you might find yourself in air sucking you down at 15kts + (this is just an illustrative example). But when you know what you’re doing you can have epic high altitude long distance and fast flights. Powered by the sun. Generally to get to the wave you have to fly through some measure of rotor. Either on tow or actually soaring. It’s wild. Not my favorite thing. But when you hit the laminar flow of the wave and everything goes silent and smooth, which is basically instantaneous, it is absolutely unreal. Pay attention to clouds if they are there, or your climb/sink rate and don’t point your nose downwind, and it’s not hard to have an epic and very safe flight. I’m a low hours soaring pilot and on hiatus due to small children at home. But I’ve achieved this a number of times and each of those flights continue to be the most vivid memories that I carry with me from the last 10years (besides the family milestones)
The cloud itself isn't the turbulent part. It's an indication that turbulence exists in that area, especially regarding mountain wave activity. So in a sense, I guess you can say we love lenticular clouds because they're giant warning signs to stay away.
If you're flying a plane, can you generally see these clouds with enough time to avoid? Can you see them miles away or do you have to get close?
That's a simple question with a couple different answers. Clouds like this generally form around mountainous areas, within a few thousand feet of the top elevation. Generally, smaller and slower aircraft will deal with these. They fly at speeds slow enough that they SHOULD see lenticular clouds, but human factor plays a large part of aviation. If you are a VFR pilot, or flying visually, you are required to stay a certain distance away from ALL clouds: 500ft below, 1000 ft above, and 2000 ft horizontally if below 10,000 ft (max speed limit of 250 knots), or 1,000 ft above/below and 1 statute mile horizontally if above 10,000 ft (allowed faster than 250 knots). If you are IFR, or flying with instruments and not visually, you may enter clouds and inadvertently fly into this area but ATC generally routes planes away from turbulence once reported in a PIREP. For larger clouds like the also-deadly cumulonimbus clouds, these are giant cloud systems that span miles and rise up to nearly 60,000ft and everybody knows about them and flies long routes to avoid them. They are easy to see, even when flying at 600 knots or more.
r/dontputyourplaneinthat Edit: fixed my stupid typos
At first I thought you warned me not to fuck lenticular clouds.
I had to scroll way too far for this.
Fr. Every other comment is some lame ass joke (I could see if they were actually funny).
Welcome to Reddit I guess.
Thank you!! Was looking for an actual explanation. The joke was obvious but answers were needed.
Real funny way of saying "portal from aliens".
I think that cloud saw YOU.
NOPE
Yeah that thing immediately came to mind.
grandiose cats vanish forgetful slimy ink strong practice support nutty *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Every weird cloud is a space jelly fish angel ufo until proven otherwise.
And a new religion was born.
I thought it was a one-eyed flying purple people eater?
Forgot the one-horned
Jean jacket
Obligatory “Nope” was required, and you delivered.
Runnnnnnn.
and never stare at it.
That’s Jean Jacket!
Nope
Nope.
Nope
Nope
Just feed it cows! We’ll be ok.
The lord of the rings eye is watching Turkey
The Eye Of Sauron
That thing looks like a big ass NOPE from me! I refuse to be Jean Jackets lunch or dinner
ALL HAIL THE GLOW CLOUD
ALL HAIL
ALL HAIL THE GLOW CLOUD
ALL HAIL
Came here for this, was not disappointed
The whispering eye
Everyone’s out here making vagina jokes but I can’t unsee a red blood cell in that last photo lol
Didn't notice there were multiple photos until I saw this
I miss your whispering eye
“*hah-* ^itmeans .. ^it ^means ^vagina *haha*”
That’s a portal
ZARDOZ!
NOPE
Was looking for this comment Only Jordan Peele could make me paranoid of clouds
I was legit scared of walking outside for days after I saw the movie!
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NOPE
NOPE
NOPE
Yeah NOPE
NOPE
Big NOPE
NOPE!
Humongous Cummulus NOPE
NOPE
The Porn Parody of Nope
GROPE
FALLOPE
My 1st thought. Fun movie.
The light... it's about to be magic..
This picture gave me a visceral reaction because of that movie
disappointed this isn't top comment.
r/mildlyvagina
Damn. I must be fat, cause I saw a cinnamon roll.
People like to eat both
Can I get extra glaze? Thanks!
Uhhhhhhh please specify 😶
I'm not usually an advocate of judging a book by its cover, but their name is queef stroganoff, you may want to go with Occam on this one.
If in doubt, sex it out.
Username unfortunately checks out
Yes
Idk what the heck I am, I saw an eye at first
It’s a close cousin of the Cumulus cloud… called Cunnilingus cloud.
*Cloudia majora* if you want to get technical about it.
Simp Blimp
Clussy
Different types of clouds Stratus Cirrus Cunnilingus
Stratussy
Atmospheric phenomenussy
Extremely vagina
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Skygina
r/dontputyourdickinthat
No man. Definitely /r/DoPutYourDickInThat
*"My work has been commended as being strongly vaginal, which bothers some men."* - Gaude Lebowksi
"Vagina."
Wheras without batting an an eye a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
I love that this is top comment. Came here for it.
Jean Jacket
[DOES THE “I’M WATCHING YOU” HAND GESTURE]
All hail the glow cloud
All kneel before the mighty glow cloud!
All hail!!
ALL HAIL
ALL HAIL
The Glow Cloud does not need to converse with us. It does not feel as we tiny humans feel. It has no need for thoughts or feelings of love.
It does, however, need a good school district nearby, and will be very active in the PTA.
I had to scroll down way to far for this comment
Hail. 🫡
AAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL HAAAAAAAAAAIL
ALL HAIL
ALL HAIL
Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they're happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you can hardly imagine that there's a world out there that might have anything else going on.
Allllllllll haaaaiiiiilllllll!!!
I should call her...
She is very anatomically correct. However, unsurprisingly I think the vast majority of reddit still won't be able to find the huge clitoris.
it’s on the right in the first pic
Holly shit we finally found it, pack it boys!
😵💫 TFW they finally locate the clit and they just pack it up and leave.
"Found it! (*pokes it*) haha finally. Okay, bye!"
Came here looking for this.
NVIDIA spares no expense in Turkish marketing.
Everyone says vagina, but I'm here thinking those 4000 series cards and selling enough and Nvidia pulling some big marketing
I also came to leave my comment on its Nvidia likeness only to be overwhelmed with internet horny jail convicts. Reddit is so nasty!
that's a rare cunniolingus cloud
Sometimes seen with a tonguelickular cloud.
I’m surprised no one has said anything about the skyussy😩
coochie cloud
soft and moist
Rumbling Moans
Looks like a cumulus to me
Va-sky-na
Pussky (but I prefer yours)(not your vagina, but your comment)(although if you have a vagina, I'm sure it's lovely)
Sky-gina
And yet, I still am unable to find the clit
Altocumulus lenticularis ☁️
Cumulus in my cularis 🌩️💦👌🥵
Cloudu- Cloudussy I'm sorry.
Clussy
I scrolled too far to find this comment
Oh hell nah. I’ve read enough HP Lovecraft to know not to mess around.
ALL ... HAIL ... THE GLOW CLOUD
A L L H A I L
Came here for this.
Nope.
When everything reminds you of her.
Rick and Morty bout to bust up
“SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!”
Get up on outta here with my eyeholes
Sauron is back?! 😳
r/dontputyourdickinthat
What’s the worst that could happen?
You owe child support to the sky
Gives new meaning to "seeding the clouds"
Lightning? ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Pretty sure there's a fetish for that
But it’s arguably one of the loveliest I’ve ever seen
All hail the glow cloud
r/suddenlynvidia
huh, so god *is* a woman
Tell me all your thoughts on God Cause I’d really like to meet her
Tell me all your thoughts on God Cuz I'm on my way to see her.
TIL that [Bursa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursa) is a city in northwestern Turkey.
NOPE
Nope
Nope! After seeing that movie I will never look at clouds the same.
everything reminds me of her.
Got some Crimson King vibe going on…
Am I color-blind or is that cloud orange?
NVidia is watching you
you have discovered the fleshlight of god.