WGC2012 Uvalde Scoring

On Tuesday, 14 August 2012 16:32:02 UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 4:57:31 PM UTC-4, Tony wrote:

On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 3:51:22 PM UTC-5, BobD wrote: On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 3:26:02 PM UTC-5, soartech wrote: Evan says: I see a 500' zoomie. What is a "zoomie" and what's so bad about it? I'm assuming he finished 500' below the finish cylinder edge and zoomed up to kill speed and gain altitude for getting to the pattern. In previous tasks they've declared a 15k cylinder with a 3,000ft minimum altitude base. They do this because weather had forecasted a gust front from approaching T-storms to the north of Uvalde. They want to give the pilot the option to get a valid finish then break off a glide to the airport should the gusts get strong. The breakoff would then be a decision to landout or go to another air strip. Hitting the 15k cylinder and keeping yourself at 3,000agl+ is tricky as most have never done final glides to a target like that. The "zoomie" is dangerous at any finish cylinder because you're zooming up at what might be the majority of gliders finishing above the floor limit. Hence the penalty points. the dangerous action was at 15:24, about 14 minutes after he started.



This is consistent with a very agressive pull up into a thermal, likely occupied by a gaggle, and triggering a safety complaint, followed by appropriate invesygation and review.

Speculation on my part.

Bet this calms things down quick

UH

The discussion so far has no identified the REAL problem. I encourage you to download the flight, define the task and have all flight parameters defined and figure out the serious penalty, which is in fact a zero for the day, because it is not the first time this pilot has done this infraction during the competition, including practice days.

yes I know the answer but you serious RAS folks should be able to figure this out on your own.

Ron Gleason