The disadvantage of numbers is that pilots remember names much better than
numbers and also visualise the flight better if they are familiar with the site.
Harry
From: Mike Borgelt
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 9:19 AM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Turnpoints
With the added advantage that casual visitors to the contest have no idea where
the task is for the day :-)
Mike
At 07:06 PM 7/01/2014, you wrote:
Hi Ron, apparently it was requested by the pilots at a recent nats pilot
meeting (maybe Benalla) and is now in the guidelines. Makes inputting tasks to
a device easier.
Regards Grant.
Grant Hudson
> On 7 Jan 2014, at 19:21, Ron Sanders <resand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Everybody just a question about the arrangement of turn points.
>
> I noticed at Kingaroy and now at Waikerie that turn points are being
> described primarily by numbers these days. I was wondering if any body
> can tell me why??
> Don't care one way or the other just interested to know if some body
> has made some kind of policy decision.
>
> Ron
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