Tango Eight wrote on 9/23/2019 7:01 PM:
No one arrival height covers all situations.

T8
Of course not but it is still personal a personal preference, no need to be opiniated, there is always more than one way to skin a cat.
Try it the other way, you'll see.

After 40 years of using a 1000' arrival height as my "aim point", I probably
shouldn't be changing it now :^)

But, I have always added a few hundred (or more) feet if I thought there were
going to be difficulties at the landing area, or (rarely) subtracted a few hundred
when close to a landing place that had no problems, and the extra search time
might find me thermal.

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