Sunday, January 31, 2010

Maurice Weaver and the Philosopher's Stone...

You will recall how Australia's roving tourist guide, Maurice Weaver, has been helping geographically challanged Americian's with their questions...here another one; Q from the USA - Which direction is North in Australia. A helpful Maurice replies - Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions. One wonders how these guys ever found mainland America in the Mayflower all those centuries ago. Although they did leave from Plymouth England and arrived in Plymouth Massachusetts..."alright everybody back on the boat...we're gone round in a big circle..." It's raining...good for farming, bad for gliding. I desperately need some practise time before the Nationals. Here's an idea...Maurice in the club's LS4 ang myself join Paul in his ASW20 in the Club class. Make it a real contest in the club class as Roy only has 4 entries... We would then need to put pressure on the contest director to instruct his task setters to set bigger tasks. I know he doesn't agree but he's being a bit of a "big girls blouse"...come on Roy, just get them to put bigger circles around the Fast classes turnpoints.

1 comment:

  1. Fly fast then you fly far! For those that dont understand competition tasking. The principle is, assess the amount of soaring time available. Then "guess" at average xcountry speed based on past performance. Then set task. Its nothing to do with circles as 50% of tasks are racing tasks ie point to point.

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