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A question: How does Winscore calculate finish altitude on a cylinder
finish? I assume it is based on the logger's pressure altitude reading for the closest logger fix after crossing the finish line, but how is that altitude adjusted for the local altimeter setting? Does it compare the difference between the finish "altitude" and the altitude recorded when the glider comes to a stop on the field? What if the field has a slope, and there is a significant difference in elevation between where the glider stops after a finish (hopefully not because it's in a tree!) and the official altitude of the finish point? On a separate (but related subject), could someone please explain to me once again how staring at an altimeter and/or doing low energy pullups during a contest cylinder finish is safe? Or how the sometimes smarter (from a RACING perspective) alternative of not wasting the time climbing those extra 500 ft, instead doing an L/D max glide to a rolling finish, stopping as soon as possible on the first bit of airfield, is a safer alternative than just calculating a competitive safe final glide and flying it to the finish, then flying the pattern dictated by the conditions? Maybe we need radar altimeters in our gliders - oops, that wouldn't work at Newcastle, never mind....Too bad our expensive loggers don't tell us what altitude it's going to tell the scorer we finished at in real time, so we could salvage a botched finish... Kirk 66 |
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