Absurdity of US Rules (in fairness to FAI)

Ha Frank I remember this day.

I followed Karl S up in the wave and got the max height start. Still got caught by the gaggle though!

Sean

On Sunday, August 18, 2013 12:03:02 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Saturday, August 17, 2013 10:35:50 AM UTC-4, Papa3 wrote:

I have great pics from sitting in the wave at Mifflin at 10,000 feet (and climbing) while about half the fleet is still on the grid. It was a bit of a fluke that I and one or two other guys got into it, as the one big thermal that happened to go high enough to get into the wave showed up at just the right time/place.







So, suppose this was okay in the rules. Two of us have a 6,000 foot advantage on a 3kt average day, or a 20 minute head start on a 3 hour task. We've won the day before the gate ever opens.





Same thing happened at Fairfield last year, but in this case the MSH was high enough so the few who got into wave were able to start 1000 or more above the rest (and I wasn't one of the fortunate few). The day was a very weak one, so 1000' was a huge advantage.



TA