At 05:56 AM 14/08/2013, you wrote:
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
So on wave days the Vne dives and pullups are in the vicinity of the
wave entry window in the first 30 seconds after the gate opens?
Mike
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