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New Butterfly Vario
On Feb 9, 4:50*pm, Mike the Strike wrote:
On Feb 9, 2:04*pm, T8 wrote: On Feb 9, 1:17*pm, Mike the Strike wrote: *Even the "gentleman's agreement" doesn't work to control this. *I have been in and around enough contests to see this frequently and (at least after a few beers) most contest pilots will fess up! *I have seen more than one of the names high on the ranking list sneaking out of the side of a cumulus! Then you have a problem. *Your options would appear to be peer pressure or the safety box. I'm not really a safety monkey (I'd go back to zero height finish lines in a heartbeat), but I chafe badly when confronted with borderline suicidal behavior. *This is one such instance. *I'd be absolutely ripped if I had a really good day, stayed legal, got beat by some jackass cloud flying. -Evan Ludeman / T8 I'll repeat what I said earlier and Andy pointed out a few posts ago - it's very hard to know when to pull out of a strong thermal as you approach cloudbase, particularly out west. *Most competitive pilots will go as high as they can, since there is no practical way to maintain the mandated clearance and no penalty if they do bust it. Most will go into cloud as an unintended consequence at the top of a fast climb they held for just one turn too many. *This will happen regardless of whether or not there are cloud-flying instruments. Many competitors are already breaking the rules on mandated clearance from clouds and there is no way to monitor this or penalize the behavior. *If you want to prevent it, you are going to have to come up with a way to monitor it. As a fellow contest pilot said to me "I'll start worrying when clouds are shown on igc files" Mike Ah, okay. I misread your comments earlier as something much less "incidental". -Evan Ludeman / T8 |
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