At 05:30 11 February 2004, Tango4 wrote:

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But why not try doing it the real way?
300km - Straight out

You can only claim gold distance out of a straight
300k, diamond goal is a triangle or O/R.

500 km - O/R or at least a full FAI triangle with home
as one apex.

That would be nice, unfortunately at some clubs (including
mine) you fall off the edge of the country or hit airspace
if you try to fly a 500k triangle, let alone an O/R,
a 500k triangle with the club halfway along one leg
might just be on, except either the sea breeze would
get you, or you'd spend way too long jumping wave gaps.

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