FAI turnpoint Question

At 05:30 11 February 2004, Tango4 wrote:

Snip ....
But why not try doing it the real way?
300km - Straight out

You can only claim gold distance out of a straight
300k, diamond goal is a triangle or O/R.

500 km - O/R or at least a full FAI triangle with home
as one apex.

That would be nice, unfortunately at some clubs (including
mine) you fall off the edge of the country or hit airspace
if you try to fly a 500k triangle, let alone an O/R,
a 500k triangle with the club halfway along one leg
might just be on, except either the sea breeze would
get you, or you'd spend way too long jumping wave gaps.

snip...

I can fit a 750km FAI triangle into the Uk and from Parham it's actually
acheivable.

PAR, PRE, BRN, PAR ( Parham Prestign up through the Midlands/manchester
airspace gap to Burn and then home to Parham ( via approximately Newbury to
miss the Heathrow airspace ) The FAI distance is 755km tha actual distance
around the airspaces is about 785.

Not impossible if we get another day like August 15th last year.

Ian

I can fit a 750km FAI triangle into the Uk and from Parham it's actually
acheivable.

PAR, PRE, BRN, PAR ( Parham Prestign up through the Midlands/manchester
airspace gap to Burn and then home to Parham ( via approximately Newbury to
miss the Heathrow airspace ) The FAI distance is 755km tha actual distance
around the airspaces is about 785.

Not impossible if we get another day like August 15th last year.

Ian



Have you ever been through Manchesters low level corridor? it's busy! or did
you mean something else?

Rgds,

Derrick.

Mark Grubb wrote:

Trying to find the following information and an FAI Sporting Code
reference for the following:

1) The minimum separation between turnpoints on a 3-turn task

10 km

2) Maximum distance between start and finish on a closed circuit FAI
task
(O&R or Triangle)

0 km

(closed circuit implies start point = finish point)

--
Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?