-John

Not Sure what you mean by Grid When It's Convienent, Or how you might
do it differently at Ephrata. One could certianly make it a lot more
complicated with no additional benefit.

I am not sure what you think you are seeing. The Launch does not start
until all gliders are grided. There are some relights that occur, me
included, that are staged back into the grid. Some between the two
classes that are launch and others at the end of the launch.

Gridding at Ephrata is simple due to the large open space. Since no
gliders are launched before grid time and it is a glider only runway,
the runway is effectively closed until after Grid time. I know the
FSDO was heavily involved in developing this system.

While I know there a many recent discussions about how this operation
works both with the FSDO and within the SGC. However I am sure if you
have a better suggestion it would be considered.

Should we all cross the runway at once?
Or would one at a time be better?
How else would you improve it?

Brian