Yeah, it can happen, but only on good blue days, when your normal inter-thermal glide speed is about 100 knots or so, and you are already on, or close to, final glide . If your VNE is say 135 knots, and you find/stumble upon a nice energy line in the blue, you can be at VNE surprisingly quickly. On Cu days, you can usually allow for this by looking well ahead, starting the final glide early, and gradually pulling up under the clouds onto the optimal final glide path.
Gary From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Richard Frawley Sent: Friday, 4 March 2016 11:49 AM To: M-12148 Mosiejewski, Jaroslaw; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding expect for the rare occasion, if you come in with that much energy on final glide in a comp, then you screwed up the planning of the final glide On 4 Mar 2016, at 11:42 AM, Jarek Mosiejewski <jar...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: There are no low level finished in the comps, the vast majority of comp finishes are straight-ins which are really long finals. The rest, for people who have too much energy for a straight in, they are regular circuits. Most comps explicitly forbid low level, high energy finishes (aka bit ups). Regards Jarek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> Cc: Sent: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:30:20 +1100 Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding On Mar 4, 2016, at 11:14 AM, DMcD <slutsw...@gmail.com> wrote: It's probable that the statistics overall are not enough to prove anything one way or another. Well, sure, you could give strong-feelings-and-make-believe a try if you want, but if you can’t baseline a “before” and “after” picture I’m not sure how you’ll work out whether or not you’ve advanced the state of the art. There have been a significant number of accidents and fatalities in the last few years during comps which were related a style of flying which is unique to comps… low finishes. Is that a true statement? This type of accident is rare or non-existent outside comp flying. Is that a true statement? - mark _____ Email sent using Optus Webmail _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list <mailto:Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au <http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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