On Jan 9, 7:13*am, Nick Hill wrote:
On 09/01/2013 12:48, Papa3 wrote:
Can someone explain this one to me:
http://www.soaringspot.net/wgc2012/r...aily/day2.html
1) 248.5km task
2) They all landed out
3) Dist column looks like actual distance without Handicap applied
4) Ordering/Point is calculated from the calculated handicapped distance
(which is not shown)
If the Hcap is applied to the Dist column you get the following. I've
added the HDist, Handicapped distance column:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Hcap * *Dist * *HDist * Points
1 KY Branko Stojkovic * SER Cirrus 75 * 100 * * 245.10 *245.10 *963
2 7 *Arndt Hovestadt * *GER Std. Libelle 99 * * 240.00 *242.42 *953
3 JR Luca Urbani * * * *ITA Std. Cirrus 100 * * 240.20 *240..20 *944
4 AA Tim Kuijpers * * * NED Cirrus 75 * 100 * * 240.00 *240..00 *943
4 IF Roman Mracek * * * CZE Std. Cirrus 100 * * 239.90 *239.90 *943
6 RC Louis Bouderlique *FRA Std. Jantar 2 101 * 240.60 *238.22 *936
7 BX Marco Barth * * * *GER LS 1f * * * 101 * * 239.90 *237.52 *934
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Nick Hill
Interesting scoresheet. The start gate opens at least at 14:14, but
the poor guy who started then did a lawn dart all on his own. Second
start 14:17 seems to have gotten over run by the gaggle, but at least
made some distance with them. The gaggle sits around playing who is
going to go first until 14:50 or so...and then all proceed to land out
together. Still, under IGC rules, sitting around for 3/4 of an hour,
guranteeing a mass landout, is the right thing to do.
Standard class
http://www.soaringspot.net/wgc2012/r...aily/day2.html
also has first start 15:22 promptly lawn-dart, and second starts 15:34
end up middle of the pack. Otherwise, the daily position is almost
inverse to the start time, with the winners starting 15:54 (15:54!
after waiting at least a half an hour!) ... except for the poor US
team who played the game just a bit too well, starting at 15:59 and,
from the looks of the scoresheet, not quite catching the gaggle.
Disclaimer, I'm sitting in my office in Chicago and just reading
scoresheets. But boy, do they seem to suggest how important start
games and gaggles are to IGC flying! Looking forward to John Good's
acerbic analysis.
John Cochrane