On 08/13/2013 12:20 PM, kirk.stant wrote:
I believe when the MSH rule was first established, the max height was supposed to be set above the expected cloudbase or top of lift. That's according to the SN10 manual - I may be wrong. Anybody remember the reasoning for it?

But I agree that it has resulted in some interesting formation flying and high-speed zooming around the start cylinder.

OK in a small contest with guys you know. Pretty damn sporting at a large regional!

By the way, SeeYouMobile has a nice little automatic timer function that tells you how long you have been under the MSH and resets everytime you go above it without starting - sure beats dicking around with a stopwatch or wris****ch (what's that - haven't worn one of those in years!).

Kirk
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XCSoar has a timer too - it's still increased heads down time, maybe a
feature request for an audio alert when you are below start would help..
but the answer should never be more computer complexity, we need
better/simpler rules! Maybe the solution is to remove the time limit
all together, leave the height limit in place, the speed limit that
already exists should be enough to prevent red line zoomies... just a
thought.

Luke Szczepaniak