Women's Worlds

On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 9:25:56 PM UTC-8, Craig Reinholt wrote:
It appears that Day 3 got scratched mid-flight (Scoring SPOT). Sarah was ahead of the pack, did a hard 90 deg towards the Keytah turnpoint and then turned for home. The rest of STD class turned back too. Any info?
Craig

Visibility was decreasing.
Kathy and Sylvia also chose to start early, but had the rug pulled out from under them at the thrd TP.
All are on their way back.
Jim

Hey Jim how was the visibility on the way back?

Do the WWGC rules allow the task to be cancelled after the gate is open? Was the Steward consulted?

Anything can be done on safety grounds.

Viz was down to less the 0.5km so totally unsafe. Also pilots were
unable to see to ground ahead and plan for safe out landing in the
event of not getting lift.

I am sure all pilots are disappointed, but none would have been happy
to continue on those conditions.



At 13:03 06 January 2020, Pat Russell wrote:
Do the WWGC rules allow the task to be cancelled after the gate is
open?
Was the Steward consulted?

Sounds like a good call.

BTW, the tracker replay is great, especially with a ctrl-shift-plus to get the numbers big enough to read.

Anybody know what Dist, Tsp, and B% are actually showing?

On Monday, January 6, 2020 at 8:55:36 AM UTC-5, wrote:
Sounds like a good call.

BTW, the tracker replay is great, especially with a ctrl-shift-plus to get the numbers big enough to read.

Anybody know what Dist, Tsp, and B% are actually showing?

Push Help in the upper right of the tracking box. Part of it:

G-TRACK-Live Glider Competitions Tracking (Help & Info)
Live Tracking

Click on the table headers to sort by Name, ID, Altitude etc..

Click on a row in the table to center on the Glider

Click the checkbox next to the pilot name to follow the Glider

Alt indicates the altitude QNH of glider in Feet

Sp indicates the glider speed in Kts

Var indicates the rate of climb in Kts

Dist indicates the task distance in Km since exiting the start sector

Tsp indicates the task speed in Km/h since exiting the start sector

B% indicates Tracker Battery charge remaining

Fix indicates the time of the last received Fix for the Glider

Click on [-] in the top right of the Glider table to minimise the table

Click on a glider callsign to display more details, click again to close it

Callsign of Gliders on the ground will be Grey

Callsign of Gliders 2000ft below the startpoint will be Red

Callsign of Gliders 2000ft above the startpoint will be Yellow

Thank You!

Push Help in the upper right of the tracking box.
Thanks, the help is helpful.


Dist indicates the task distance in Km since exiting the start sector

For the day before yesterday with turn points, that seems great.

For yesterday with turn circles and a minimum time, is there some heuristic calculating task distance and speed before the whole flight is known?

But they did continue...they were all at or nearly to the farthest Turnpoint. Most made the return trip home which was probably only marginally shorter than finishing the task.

A mismatch between the Task and the actual conditions is a normal part of the game.

The only condition for cancelling a day after the gate is open is clear evidence of unfairness. Perhaps this was the case, but no justification has been published, so far.