Huntsville Alabama
Great Plains
Super Launch
The premier High Altitude Ballooning Experience
June 15-17, 2023
About the Event
Great Plains Super Launch is the premier high altitude ballooning event in North America. Started in 2001 by Paul Verhage, this annual event will be celebrating its 23rd year. Hosted in various locations around the midwest, GPSL attracts the brightest and most innovative amateur balloonists from the US and abroad.
2023 Symposium Venue
Dates
Event Registration
GPSL Groups.io Reflector
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Re: US Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 17, 2023 | 02:52 amMeant to write CFR. On Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 06:28:26 PM EDT, Hank wrote: Google will locate several online sources of the CFI.
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Re: US Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 22:28 pmGoogle will locate several online sources of the CFI.91.215 - ATC transponder and altitude reporting equipment and use.91.225 - Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipment and use.99.13 - Transponder-on requirements.ADS-B has been mentioned several times on GPSL since the Chinese[…]
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Re: US Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 21:51 pmWhat are these parts? Administrator issues a notice of proposed rulemaking22 under subsection (b)(1), a person may only operate a high23 altitude balloon if such balloon meets the requirements de-24 scribed in section 91.215(b) of title 14, Code of Federal25[…]
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Re: US Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 21:25 pmOfficial U.S. Senate press release for the Kelly-Budd Seeing Objects at Altitude Regularly (SOAR) Acthttps://www.budd.senate.gov/press-releases/senators-budd-kelly-introduce-bill-to-improve-tracking-of-high-altitude-balloons/Sen. Kelly said:“At a time when our adversaries are using hostile surveillance tactics, there is no reason why our country should have to wonder whether an object[…]
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Re: US Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 20:57 pm
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I think the key bit is:
A provision of the SOAR Act calls on the FAA to create the
Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC), composed of members from the
aviation industry, including aviation experts and representatives
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Re: US Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 20:48 pmCan we get the content of the article here so I don't need to make an account for yet another news agency that will just spam me?73Mark VK5QI
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US Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 20:43 pmUS Senators Introduce Legislation to Track, Identify High-Altitude Balloons https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us-senators-introduce-legislation-to-track-identify-high-altitude-balloons_5127148.html?utm_source=andshare Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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Re: HAB predictions
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 09:49 amAs others have said, the predictor accuracy is often mainly limited by the user inputs (e.g. ascent rate, burst altitude and sea-level descent rate), and how closely your flight actually achieves these.In particular, your burst altitude is going to play[…]
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Re: HAB predictions
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 09:29 am
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In my experience the error is greatest in the direction of travel
- less so at right angles to it. I suspect the predictor is
quite accurate - its the other factors that cause most of the
error.
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Re: HAB predictions
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 16, 2023 | 03:44 amI did a comparison of 3 different predictors a few years ago for GPSL and all 3 predictictions were very close to the same. I also took the flights from the previous a year's GPSL and when I used the[…]
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