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Old January 6th 20, 10:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_6_]
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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.


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Old January 6th 20, 11:01 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tim Newport-Peace[_6_]
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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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Old January 6th 20, 07:46 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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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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