The JWGC organizers this year had a remarkably elegant solution to start heights that made me feel stupid for not having thought of it myself.
If a maximum start height is set, it is simply required that pilots have a single fix BELOW the start height between the time of the start gate opening (usually ~20 minutes after last launch) until the time they actually cross the start line. So you can climb into wave as high as you like and start as high as you like, as long as you do it after the start gate has opened. If you're in the wave before the start gate opens, you have to come down and then climb up again like those who launched later. This means: 1) Everyone has a fair chance of getting into the wave / getting to cloudbase. 2) No VNE dives to get under the start line. -matthew On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Adam Woolley <[email protected]>wrote: > Heard on the grape vine again... > > > Max start height no more than 500ft below convection; and > > less than 150 kph groundspeed.. > > > Thoughts? Discuss? > > > WPP > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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