On Jul 26, 5:10 pm, "kirk.stant" wrote:
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On a separate (but related subject), could someone please explain to
me once again how staring at an altimeter and/or doing low energy
pullups during a contest cylinder finish is safe? Or how the
sometimes smarter (from a RACING perspective) alternative of not
wasting the time climbing those extra 500 ft, instead doing an L/D max
glide to a rolling finish, stopping as soon as possible on the first
bit of airfield, is a safer alternative than just calculating a
competitive safe final glide and flying it to the finish, then flying
the pattern dictated by the conditions?

Maybe we need radar altimeters in our gliders - oops, that wouldn't
work at Newcastle, never mind....Too bad our expensive loggers don't
tell us what altitude it's going to tell the scorer we finished at in
real time, so we could salvage a botched finish...

Kirk
66

Here we go again :-)
I thought that we have this argument during the winter, when we can't
fly.

On a serious note, could you explain to me how a lower altitude is
safer than a higher one ? All other things being equal.

Todd Smith
3S