Decent Flight

Paul Remde wrote:
Hi Gary,

This may be a stupid question, but I thought the maximum difference between
the start and finish had to be 3281 feet (1000 m), but I see your tow was
quite high. Did you have to take a big distance penalty?

Looks like he towed to 5700' and landed at 3200', so he only lost 2500'.

Also looks like about 30% of the distance can be credited to the 15 knot
south wind. But even without that, it still was over a 500 km flight,
which is pretty impressive in that glider.



It is an amazing flight!

Paul Remde

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Fantastic flight! Would love to look at the log file! Is is available?
On OLC?

Hmmmm. Try this. I've never filed anything with OLC before so I hope
this works for you. Posting through my son's Google account, you can
reach me via e-mail at:

-Gary

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...tId=1538997862

Looks like he towed to 5700' and landed at 3200', so he only lost 2500'.

Correct.

The flight was well within the 1000m FAI allowance, which was planned
around. What I didn't plan on was overflying the conditions in the
panhandle. With the nice tailwind, I was on track to make or exceed
1000 km total but ran into stagnant air in an area which would
normally have yielded good groundspeeds and a late landing.

-Gary

On Jul 26, 11:25*am, "Paul Remde" wrote:
Hi Gary,

This may be a stupid question, but I thought the maximum difference between
the start and finish had to be 3281 feet (1000 m), but I see your tow was
quite high. *Did you have to take a big distance penalty?

It is an amazing flight!

Paul Remde


Paul,

I thought about the exact same thing. Flatlanders all think alike I
guess. ;-)

But I did figure out the answer by realizing the landing location was
3000+ feet above the take off point.

That high tow sure came in handy at the beginning of his flight when
he lost 2,700 feet before thermalling.

- John