17.02.2007
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Manilla XC Open
... New rules, not so open ...
http://canadianparaglidingteam.blogspot.com/
Due to the new rules (flying open distance along a specific
bearing, to keep people together and keep an eye on the weather, a result of the
day 1 fiasco), everyone was to fly to the NW of launch. Basically do a GOTO to
Mt. Borah, and try to keep a bearing back to there of 113 degrees. This came
about as a compromise to the protest that was submitted a couple days ago.
The decision was to let the pilots decide whether day 1 should be cancelled, by
a written vote of at least 50%. Every day a “safe” or “not safe” box would be
checked on the sign in form, and for the 1st day, if more than 50% say “not
safe”, then it will be cancelled. For subsequent days, if more than 20% of
pilots say not safe, then those days will be cancelled too. So this way we won’t
know whether the first day was cancelled until tomorrow, after all the day 1
votes are accounted for, when people sign in tonight.
Not sure how everyone else did, but imagine there are lots of 200 km + flights.
Will, Keith, and Tom flew about 225 km. Apparently Jouni Markonnen (Finnish
pilot) flew 270 km!
http://flygirl.co.za/content/view/113/29/
http://OzReport.com/1171733455
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