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On Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:47:36 -0800, Tony wrote:
Wouldn't the safest instruction been to tell all the contestants to land ASAP? If visibility was too poor to continue the soaring contest task then Wouldn't it be too poor to soar back home too? From the British team news reports, it seems that they flew into an area of dense smoke / deduced visibility. Presumably, and this looks likely from the task maps since all tasks went further north than in any other direction, this would mean that when they were flying home after the recall, they'd be flying out of the area of poor visibility. -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org |
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At 19:47 06 January 2020, Tony wrote:
Wouldn't the safest instruction been to tell all the contestants to land ASAP? If visibility was too poor to continue the soaring contest task then Wouldn't it be too poor to soar back home too? Wouldn't that be a decision best left to pilots who are on-the-spot, once the task had been cancelled? |
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The finer points of the rules is always an interesting question.
After looking in the sporting code and local procedures, still seems like a good call. It will be interesting how the fires affect the rest of the tasking. In the FAI rules, there are words which permit using local procedures to augment the FAI rules. These are approved by FAI prior to the contest. The local procedures for this contest appear to have anticipated this situation and given the CD the tools to deal with it. |
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