NEW Sporting Code rules

There are places where a standard mountain tow is around 30 miles (50km) releasing at 7000 feet. In any mediocre day one can climb a little more in one thermal and easily glide the 50km back home. definitely not a cross country flight. Should this be considered for a silver badge?

Ramy

At 21:33 14 October 2015, Ramy wrote:
There are places where a standard mountain tow is around 30 miles (50km)
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leasing at 7000 feet. In any mediocre day one can climb a little more in
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e thermal and easily glide the 50km back home. definitely not a cross
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ry flight. Should this be considered for a silver badge?

Ramy

For 50k you would need to finish at not less than 5360 feet to qualify
under the 1% rule (SC3-2.4.5b).

Tim.

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:33:37 -0700, Ramy wrote:

There are places where a standard mountain tow is around 30 miles (50km)
releasing at 7000 feet. In any mediocre day one can climb a little more
in one thermal and easily glide the 50km back home. definitely not a
cross country flight. Should this be considered for a silver badge?

Remember the 1% height difference rule. 1% of 50km is 500m or 1635 ft, so
its only a valid silver distance if it arrives over its destination field
at 5365 ft or higher.


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