MATs

On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 8:48:24 PM UTC-7, MNLou wrote:
Sean Fidler's contest tasking statistics were an eye opener for me. I did 2 contests last year and in both, only TATs were called. I didn't realize how common MATs were.

I cannot find any information on the strategy to use to fly them competitively nor can I find anything that gives one an idea how to set up a MAT in one's flight computer. (Nor how and when to change the task in mid flight..)

Any advice (or direction to documents) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance -

Lou

MATs with multiple-assigned turnpoints can be a lot of fun - you essentially fly an AST until you run out of time and then head home. It's a real race, but even the slower guys can have fun and don't end up stuck in a field 50 miles from home.

MATs with one or two turnpoints are tricky - essentially after the first mandated turn(s) they turn into an OLC flights with turnpoints! My main advice here is to choose to fly in a part of the task area that has quite a few alternate turnpoints just in case one or more are blocked by bad weather. Don't ask me how I discovered this!

Mike