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Old February 2nd 18, 01:27 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Second, historically, races are not only won by those flying the perfect flight, with decisions made that minimized risk and maximized speed, but ALSO days are won by those same pilots who chose or had to take a major calculated risk to win the day.


Still not much of a racing pilot here, so take with grain of salt.

I wonder if this mixes two kinds of risk.

Strategic risk like 'I think there's lift in that blue hole. If it works I'm way ahead. If it doesn't I have a save my butt plan so I still get to try tomorrow'.

versus
Safety risk is like the above except if it doesn't work hopefully I'll only break the ship.

As a newbee, I am surrounded by really good pilots that do amazing things.
My goal is just to finish safely, learn, and enjoy. For me, it would be neat to hear a safety debrief on what sort of 'get to fly tomorrow plan' the person who just did one of those amazing things had.

I think that says no new rule, just a little peer pressure and maybe a learning experience.

No another note, the SUA's use the existing airspace feature in the panel. It is my understanding that this only supports vertical sides for airspace sections. If so, then I suspect to do much more that a few special cases, the feature would have to be modified to support sloping sides to better follow terrain with a reasonable number of airspace volumes?