Hi Mike,
I agree entirely.
Re "girly men" tasks, having read this comment, I instantly sent your email
to the recycle bin. However I have now reconsidered and I would like your
opinion, given that (amazingly), competition tasking is one topic that does
not seem to have been discussed on this forum.
Let me stir the pot by first saying that Charles Day, a long time member of
the GCV, and an excellent pilot, was (is?) of the opinion that, in the
main, competition tasking is too conservative, and does not test the pilot
at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day. He therefore mostly
did not participate. However I can recall one occasion when he did compete
in a Nationals - pre Benalla Worlds(??) - and (I think), in the end gained
an overall second place.
Over to you.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Borgelt" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] harmonised turnpoint list
Does it matter? If you have one giant list you have to edit it anyway to
get it down to the places you use at any given site.
If doing a badge, record or contest flight as long as you go to the actual
declared place (use the same list for the declaration and the nav
database) and have at least one GPS fix in sector you are OK.
It simply doesn't even matter if the turnpoint is displaced from the
physical feature with GPS flight recording. We could save a lot of anxiety
by simply using a half degree grid of lat and long over the soaring areas.
Goes even more so for AAT where you don't even go to a specific place
anyway. Don't get me started on the stupidity of the current rules for the
"girly men" task though.
Mike
At 12:03 PM 10/11/2012, you wrote:
Just to get those going who aren't gliding this weekend what are we or the
GFA doing/have done about producing a harmonised turn point list for the
whole of Australia? Eg Tocumwal uses Burrumbuttock and so does Temora and
Benalla and Burrumbuttock turns out to be in three different places,
albeit not by much. The UK has had a national harmonised list for years,
why cant we??
Ron
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