Yes, a female. Sharon Smith. I wonder if she's still flying.

On 8/19/2015 8:43 AM, Sarah wrote:
You're very lucky to have had the support of a big club. Our club is smaller, and there's only a handful of us that fly X/C at the moment.

There's nothing else as convincing for showing you it's possible as other's doing it. The OLC is nice for this too, but in-person same-day is more fun.

I was a couple of miles outbound when a woman who'd started
with me was finishing! After I landed, I asked her how she flew so
fast. She told me not to circle so much.
You mean... a "female"? Awesome.

-- the other "Sarah A" in MN


On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 9:33:20 AM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
As a newbie I was encouraged to fly in the TSA (Texas Soaring
Association) Labor Day lap races in Sports Class. On the practice
day, I was a couple of miles outbound when a woman who'd started
with me was finishing! After I landed, I asked her how she flew so
fast. She told me not to circle so much.



The first race day was a small triangle with a 50+ KM leg so I
declared a Silver Distance and was careful to take pictures for both
the turn points and for the badge leg. The quadrants were
different! I achieved the badge leg and, in fact, took first place
in Sports. One more tug on the line which set the hook even deeper.




On 8/19/2015 5:10 AM, Martin Gregorie
wrote:



On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:17:46 -0700, unclhank wrote:



Unless there has been a change that I am not aware of, one can declare a
remote start point, fly to a remote finish. and return to the home base.



Yes, of course. A Silver distance can be done as you describe *provided
that* it has a 50km leg, which is all that counts for Silver.

I thought the post I replied to could be read as if flying a closed task
totalling 50km would count as Silver Distance but it would not.



Altitude loss is calculated from release height to height at finish
point. The task some of our folks have done for this turns out to
require about a 130k flight which seems about right if one is flying
modern glass.



Too true. The prospective Silver Badge holder should read the rulebook
before planning any of the three elements, but always remebering that the
Silver C can be and has been completed in one flight!







--

Dan Marotta

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Dan Marotta