Flying under airspace and altitude limitations
This is slightly edited version of how we are dealing with airspace restrictions here at the Bogong Cup:
The Pines have an airspace floor of 4500' amsl (1,372m) at launch. Well south of the Pines and over the flats by Millawa the airspace floor (above which you are in airspace) is 8,500' (2,591m). There is a general 10,000' (3048m) height limitation for hang gliders in Australia
Pilots should make themselves familiar with the airspace limits shown on the competition maps (see the map in the headquarters). Pilots can in most cases receive from the scorekeeper a download to their GPS/flight computer that shows airspaces.
Track logs will be checked for each task and penalties will be applied for violations of air space and hang glider altitude limits. Infringements will be determined using "GPS" height (GPS altitude as determined by GPSDump and CompeGPS).
The penalty (in points) shall be the square of your maximum height above the air space floor or altitude limitation in meters divided by 200, summed for each incident (up above and then down below of air space floor or altitude limitation) during a task. For violations less than one minute, no penalty will be applied. For violations over three minutes a second incident shall start and so on for every three minutes.
Suspect track logs will be evaluated as per the current HGFA manual.
The task committee shall strive to create tasks which keep pilots out of areas with air space restrictions, as much as possible.
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