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tango4 wrote:
I don't get it, can you elaborate? Post a sample task!

Ian



OK, assume you have your gliderport: LaNeva (no relation to Avenal).

You tow directly above the runway in use, release, and do an
immediate 360.

Then you fly north to a pre-declared turnpoint 50km north.
Then you fly directly south to a predeclared turnpoint
100km away. Then you fly 100km mostly north to a
predeclared turnpoint which is 10km east of the first turnpoint.
Then you fly mostly south back to LaNeva and
during the landing rollout you stop in the OZ of
the initial 360.

Diagram of LaNeva, and turnpoints 1,2,3:

1 3










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2


The course seems to allow a LOT of flexibility.
It should qualify as a closed course, since the
start and finish point are the "same."
The turnpoints are all 10km+ away from each other.
I even think it qualifies for an O&R of 100km
(not just free O&R) but I'm not sure.

I intend to fly a course like this for the
gold distance. The advantage being I'll never be more than
about 50km from LaNeva, so retrieves are cheap.

Anyone try something like this before?

The reason to not just declare the start or
finish as "LaNeva" is twofold. If the release
and 360 were slightly off point, one can fix this
by landing on a different runway or at a different
point.

Second (and more important), if the thermals are
still cookin' at the end of the task, one can abandon
the closed course options and just keep flying
South until the total distance is 500km (gold
AND diamond distance), and then land.

It seems someone could also use this technique to
fly the Gold distance too without ever being more than
84km from the home field.

I welcome comments. This is a slightly complicated
subject for me...and the silver distance took me six
tries, so advice is encouraged