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May 11th 19, 08:26 PM
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Nearest near-miss?
On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 12:47:45 PM UTC-4, wrote:
..who’s got the closest near-miss? I was flying out of Bayreuth in the BavariaGlide Pre-Worlds in 1999, on a task leg heading east (sun to my back) over an large area with no lift, kinda final-glide to the next area with lift. Suddenly the cockpit got quite dark. I instinctively pushed the stick forward and looked up, to clearly see the tape weave on the gear doors of the Nimbus 3D passing directly overhead.. Probably less than 5 feet to the gear, which means my tail was *really* close. IIRC there were around 80+ gliders in that contest. We had one fatal mid-air. 
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