Mountain Wave Soaring?

Question

OK,... Looks like the leading edge of the rotor. There's a YouTube with a C152 in a wave. Prop stopped.

Answer 1

What is the link?  Is he in the rotor, or the wave?  A C152's prop causes more drag when stopped than when windmilling.  Stopping a C-152's prop is not difficult at all--just fly slow and it will stop.

Answer 2

Well I guess you could mountain wave fly a C152 in a rotor. But it wouldn't be very pleasant. To stop the prop you would have to get the airspeed real slow and at MCA that would be real interesting in that much turbulence.

Answer 3

Sounds crazy to me.

I use mountain waves to increase ground speed or climb rate, not for soaring.  I've had my 172 well into the yellow in straight and level flight going down the Rocky Mountain Trench since I knew where the wave window was and could see and avoid the rotors.  I've also pegged the VSI going up in a sustainable climb in a 182 because of a mountain wave.