Silver Distance Denied

At 04:07 06 April 2015, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
The badge process has withstood the test of time in building confidence
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skill. It took me three tries to finally get my diamond out and return.
I
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learned much from each flight, plus the fights got me flying further from
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m each time. On the first attempt the Cambridge data logger recorded
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s on either side of the turn point quadrant and if you drew a line
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the points the line would go through the quadrant, but it was rejected
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not hanging a Piont in the quadrant.

You don't say when this was, but for a number of years a line through the
quadrant has been an option in the Sporting Code. Sounds as though you were
robbed.

The second time, the logger lost GPS
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signal for about four minutes while I was at the turn Piont. I was
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for home when the logger re-established contact, I turned around and
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ted the turn point but the claim was rejected as I had lost GPS and thus
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logging for four minutes. It was obvious to Judy Lincoln that on both
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hts I completed the required distance but I was not in technical
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I would fight that one too. If the Pressure barogram shows that you could
not have landed and re-launched (no ground within range at a height shown
on the barogram), where's the problem?
Anyway you would need to be very quick to land and re-launch in four
minutes!

But then I haven't seen the trace.

.. So I flew it a third time! I had not been flying 500 k's more like
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's, each summer weekend, all the sudden I did three 500 k's on three
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sive weekends. I think not getting the badge on the first two attempts
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responsible for seriously expanding my range. If your badge claim is
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ed, try try again, you will learn.