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October 26th 16, 04:48 PM
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MAT's are dangerous
I agree with you Herb.
When I competed, I had more safety concerns on course in large gaggles (regionals and nationals) than I had on runs or turn points. I guess, the "safety aspect" brought up will lead to banning ridge ontest flights (Mifflin, Ridge Soaring, Newcastle come to mind, I've flown all 3 places) due to even narrower height bands and even higher speeds! Best example, the Newcastle "back ridge dump task" (to the tunnels by Blacksburg) can have dry speeds over 120MPH, that's a 240MPH closure speed. 
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