Check out today's mountain weather, very interesting. Started out this morning with smooth air, not a bump in the sky. Flew over the Rampart and had the typical low level updrafts from the terrain. The lakes were glassy smooth (that's right they are frozen). By my return at 10 am had high level lenticulars and moderate turbulence over the Rampart.
At 4 pm we had high level lenticulars, stratus, and a very distict inversion layer over the city.
Good mountain flying or bad mountain flying? Forcast winds were 17 knots at 12,000. Ground speed over the Rampart was 170 eastbound.
Those lenticulars, high cirrus turning into stratus to the west and the inversion layer - what does the next 12 - 24 hours hold in store for the savy mountain pilot? Staying home or surfin the winds?
Mountain flying students - any ideas?
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