Tango Eight wrote on 12/26/2017 6:01 PM:
On Tuesday, December 26, 2017 at 7:21:12 PM UTC-5, jfitch wrote:
On Tuesday, December 26, 2017 at 6:19:19 AM UTC-8, Tango Eight wrote:
On Monday, December 25, 2017 at 11:15:18 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Even if the scoring ends with the motor
starting, having a motor can change how the soaring is done.

Behold: honesty. Rare enough to be noteworthy. Thanks, Eric.

-Evan Ludeman / T8

Yes - about as much as having a dedicated crew for the retrieve. They should be penalized equally.

On a 1750 km triangle attempt, which would YOU rather have?

30 years ago - an ASH 25 (or whatever the equivalent was then) and the crew;
today, an ASH 30 Mi.


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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf