"Good air." ;)
We've heard this a lot on the last day of the Horsham Week Comp.
Congratulations. Well done.
Regards
Jarek
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Subject:Re: [Aus-soaring] Simultaneous Record Claims
Unlike Australian comps, there is nothing in the sporting code (which
governs records) that suggests the flights can't be done pair flying,
or even receiving weather or condition information from multiple
locations to assist decision making.
Additionally, I believe that Pam actually contacted the IGC for
clarification on this before posting the notification.
For those that like to know where the task was, TP1 was an arbitrary
GPS point midway between Ivanhoe and Balranald - there's nothing
there, so nothing to name it after !
Wombat is correct in that we were using this flight as a training
exercise for the worlds, this was actually the 2nd record attempt in
the week we spent together - we fell well short of Peter Temple's new
750k o/r record a few days earlier.
We were wingtip to wingtip at both the start and finish, although for
much of the flight, this wasn't the case as we repeatedly had one then
the other get separated vertically and the had to work hard to pull
the low one back up without slowing the high one - very good training
for us. The intention was to try and do this jointly, although, if one
of us had been clearly ahead at the finish, they were not going to
wait !
For others thinking of doing the same, you are not going to be able to
pair fly effectively without a lot of practice, equivalent gliders at
the same wing loading and a similar flying style - we had this, and
had almost no disagreement over thermal strengths to use, height
bands, speed to fly, tracks in both the blue and with Cu, etc.
Over the week, we flew for over 30 hours together over about 3,500 km.
This particular flight was on the last day.
Finally, we need to apologise to everyone affected by the huge amount
of radio traffic between us last week
Matt
On 13 Feb 2014, at 13:12 , Paul Bart wrote:
Hi Wombat
Those were my thoughts, but the question still remains, is the flight
unassisted, given that the whole point of pair flying is to go faster.
I have no axe to grind, I am just interested.
Cheers
Paul
On 13 February 2014 09:09, Mike Cleaver wrote:
The flight was a pairs-flying exercise and they started and
finished wingtip to wingtip to ensure the times were the same to the
second!
Wombat
On 13/02/2014 8:10 AM, Peter (PCS3) wrote: Now that must be a
record: two simultaneous claims on the same day in the same model of
glider with the exactly the same location, speeds and distance!!!!
What are the chances of that? !!!!!!!!!!
PeterS
On 12/02/2014 9:47 AM, Pam wrote:
GFA has received the following record claims for the Australian
National Standard Class 750km triangle speed record:
>>
Category: General
Class: Standard
Type of record: 750km triangle speed
Location: West Wyalong
Performance: 134.01 kph
Pilot: Matt gage
Glider: LS8/15m
Date: 8/2/2014
>>
Category: General
Sub-class Standard
Type of record : Speed over a 750km triangle
Course/location : West Wyalong Aerodrome, NSW ( Australia ) - TP1`-
Conargo and return
Performance : 134.01 km/hr
Pilot : Allan Barnes
Glider : LS8/15mRegistration: VH-NSZ
Date : 08 Feb 2014
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