SENIORS CONTEST

Yes, how did this happen? I have flown in several Seniors, and radio
discipline is usually quite good!
Just guessing (I know, bad!), one of them had to fail to switch from "crew"
123.5 to "gate" 123.3--So each announces and does not hear the other because
they are on different frequencies.
The overtake speed differential is small enough to keep them in the blind
spot a long time.

--
Hartley Falbaum
ASW27B "KF" USA


"Gary Boggs" wrote in message
...
Were these two guys using the radio at all? Why weren't they aware of
each other?
I can't imagine anyone doing a finish without announcing, how did this
happen?


"Bert Willing" wrote in
message ...
Finish gates without radio procedures are indeed a quite dumb thing to
do. I'd call that Darwin...

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"John Sinclair" a écrit dans le
message de news: ...
This is a classic example of two gliders flying in
the other pilots 'blind spot'. Lower pilot can't see
above and behind, higher pilot can't see below and
in front, because the nose of his ship blocks his view
in this area. Both ships heades for the same point
in space. Some have reffered to this as a 'scheduled
mid-air', same point (GPS coordinates of gate), same
altitude (50 feet), the only remaining variable is
the timing of the event. Looks like the it was almost
perfect on this one. Come on guys, there is a better
way.
JJ Sinclair

At 04:30 16 March 2005, Gordon Schubert wrote:
Two gliderscoming in to the finish directly over the
runway. One at about 100 ft and the other at 150 ft.
The one at 150 ft is going about 30 knots faster than
the lower and flies over it just as the lower glider
is pulling up. Lower glider misses the one above by
approx. 5-10 ft. This happened directly in front of
me and probably 10 other people. It was mentioned by
Charlie Spratt at the pilots meeting.
GORDY