Hi All,
On several flights I have done a flight that seems (by inspection), to
includes a nice (FAI), triangle, and indeed shows up on the SeeYou site as a
substantial - say 200 - 400 km - FAI triangle, and yet the OLC site manages to
find a max FAI triangle of about 6 km or so for this very
Hi Gary and all,
Have seen this a few times lately... My understanding is that OLC requires
the flight track to be 'closed' ie you cross the path of your outgoing
track when finishing. (for triangle scores, not standard olc)
I could be wrong, but this seems fairly consistent with other flights I
Hi Garry,
There is an olc requirement I believe to close the triangle, i.e. cross your
start point when finishing the flight. If you start out of a 1km beer can or
even a line orientated say on the wind sock as we do at Waikerie then you
finish on a straight in approach (safe and fun) you may
Hi Gary,
There is a chance that you did not close the triangle:
http://static.onlinecontest.org/files/rules/rules_olc_plus_en_120426.pdf
4.3.2 FAI OLC Course (based on the FAI)
If possible, three turn points are chosen on the recorded, closed flight
path such that they define an FAI
Hi Adam All,
Sigh!
When all else fails, I guess one needs to read, absorb, understand, and apply
the rules!
As many a glider pilot has found out to their cost, what a difference a metre
or ten can make!
Thank you all.
Gary
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From: Adam Webb
To:
It's painted in a more recent Air Canada scheme than in the photograph. Now
sitting on the ramp at Mojave, California with many other airliners that are
for sale. Mojave is the home of Scaled Composites, who produced the X-Prize
winning Space Ship One glider and are currently building the
Hi Gary,
It comes down to the start and finish, outbound and inbound tracks; they have
to cross within (I think) 0.5km to close the triangle and therefore
#39;award#39; FAI points. I had the same problem until Eddie Madden pointed
out the solution. Try using a standard start and finish line
Start and finish (closing point) must be within 1.5 km. Trap for young players
- that is horizontal AND vertical, i.e. can't start at 2,500 m and finish at
500 m above the same point. Rgds - Rolf
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:13:07 -0800
From: bdur...@yahoo.com.au
To:
Is he on this list?
PeterS
On 22/02/2013 12:36 PM, Bernie Baer wrote:
Hi Peter,
you'd need to convince Johnny Wharington (who runs the Aus-RASP which
incorporates QLD) that it's a good idea.
:-)
He's a hard man to catch though.
Regards, Bernie.
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