Mark James Boyd wrote:

At least until 1st Oct 2004, where beer can will be included in the OZ
even for badges or records


I assume that like competitions, distance will be calculated by
the furthest point into the beer can...right?

I don't know which competitions you are speaking about, nor their
particular rules. I am refeering to SC3 annex A, where the distance is
calculated by the turn point itself, center of the beer can.

Do you have a reference for this? How big is the beer can?

Look at the agenda of 2004 IGC meeting on www.fai.org/gliding site (I
don't know if the proposal has been approved by the plenary, but it is
likely because it was a year 2 proposal) .

The beer can has a 500 m radius like in Annex A, and 1 km is subtracted
from the distance at each turnpoint when beer can is used.

Unfortunately there is now two ways of declaring a turn point : with
usual observation zone (90° quadrant) *or* with target zone (beer can).
And I don't know how this can be done in any electronic delaration ! Not
speaking from the mess in analysis softwares with several possible task
distances from the same turn points !

--
Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?