Description

Video produced by NCAR, written by Dr. Peter Neilly, and narrated by David Hartley. Video discusses RAL's work to improve mountain flying safety, and deals with understanding the hazards, and educating the community, as well as how to improve detection and forecasting. The aviation accident rate is 40% higher in mountainous states compared to the rest of the country. In 1991, there was a wind rotor crash in Colorado Springs, prompting a field data study in Colorado Springs using LIDAR, profiler, surface weather stations, and weather balloons to better understand rotor winds. The video mentions the LLWAS system in Hong Kong, and the Hazardous Mountain Winds and Their Visual Indicators training manual is featured. This manual is in the RAL collection in the archives.