Any news from IGC?

Mark James Boyd wrote:

The beer can has a 500 m radius like in Annex A, and 1 km is subtracted
from the distance at each turnpoint when beer can is used.

Hmmmm...I wonder if I declare a course which is 300.1 KM, and
then go fly it by turning each point just outside the point by
a few hundred meters, if this means I will be 3 KM short...

if you declare and fly the OZ (outside quadrant), using the WGS85
distance, it should be OK !

Still dunno why a beer can was ever introduced for anything...
See old threads for arguments on this...

I still think keeping quadrants (or even buoys you should fly around)
would have been better, but now that beer cans are in most comps,
loggers, etc., it's better use them for badges also

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Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?