Analyzing US Competition Flights

On Mar 11, 7:44*am, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Friday, March 9, 2012 9:34:34 AM UTC-5, Papa3 wrote:
...The photographer and several others (including yours truly) were lolling around in wave a couple thousand feet above the clouds enjoying the warm sun while the masses engaged in thermal warfare down in the boundary layer. * Not sure what analyzing those traces would tell you...

Yep, it was nice hanging around up high before start that day, but those guys down low were a worry...

See ya, Dave "YO electric"

I don't think you were there the year that the skydiving club dropped
a bunch of jumpers from 12K... over a 5/10 cumulus sky at 5 or 6000...
into the middle of a start gate which had not yet opened. We had 30
gliders in the air, a fair number of which were in the gate. I heard
the radio call, was completely dumbfounded. I was under a Cu at the
time, in the gate, close to the airport. I hoped no one was crazy
enough to punch through a cloud... but they were crazy enough to jump
with tens of gliders in the local area, so who knew? IIRC that was
2010. Someone must have spoken with them. They didn't do it again.

T8