Let me see
if I got this straight, Mark. You are advocating an
early finish followed by an attempt to better your
speed and if that fails, you plan to beat it back home
so as to make the flight documentation time, in order
to claim your short task speed? Do I have that right,
Mark?

If I were the CD, I would land you at your engine start
point (for distance points only) and probably give
you an un-sportsman-like penalty for trying to manipulate
the rules.

I will add your example to a growing list of motor
glider abuses that I hope will lead to some constraints
being placed on motor gliders when they are allowed
to compete with pure sailplanes.
JJ Sinclair


At 20:30
29 August 2004, Mark Zivley wrote:

For the case of adding a turnpoint, if you're a motorglider
(which we
were) you COULD get back to the finish airport after
cranking out the
motor, land, and get your landing info in w/o too much
trouble as long
as you were less than say 40 miles away from the finish
airport.