Steve Blenkinsop <>
writes:

Deja vu? An article a few years back in the ozreport, with
coincidentally an almost identical task length:
http://ozreport.com/5.20

Pete Bolton (who wrote the article above) writes:

I'm not sure if you're suggesting that it's a WORLD record for
longest goal distance made in a comp, but there was an Australian comp goal
distance record set in the South Australian State Comp long ago of - would you
believe - 251km. This was in the king-posted days of 1989 (if I remember the
year correctly). four pilots made this distance - Steve Blenkinsop, Garry Fimeri,
Jules Makk and Chris Charters. I believe Steve had the documentation for an FAI
record claim then.


There was a 265km goal set in a more recent Aus comp, which no one made.

Looking at the task I get three distances for it. Race gives 251.8
km, SeeYou with the FAI spheroid, 251.4 km and with the WGS 84 ellipsoid, 250.7
km. Looks like it is equivalent to the task in Australia. On that day pilots
were getting to 15,000' AGL, 5,000' higher than the legal limit. On Thursday
pilot were getting to 7,000' AGL.