We held our first club meeting since the start of the pandemic at Spring Hill on Saturday September 5. The meeting was to start at 10am, but it was flyable, so what are you going to do? So we flew, and had the meeting when the wind got too strong for paragliders (the hang gliders were just starting to get into their element).

Task

We had an elapsed-time task set for some friendly competition:

• Waypoints file: ACTHPA.wpt
• XCTrack task: SpringHillFlyIn-2020-09.xctsk
• XCTrack QR (scan from within XCTrack):
• XCSoar task: SpringHillFlyIn-2020-09.tsk (Warning: I’m not sure I got this right… how do you set ESS in XCSoar?)
• Other: Please send other task files (FlySkyHigh?) to alex@farfromthere.net and I’ll add them here.

Here are the task details:

• Type: Elapsed Time

• Datum: WGS-84 Ellipsoid

• SSS Crossing: Exit

• Goal: Cylinder

• SSS Open: 10:00

• Task deadline: 18:00

• Turnpoints:

  Type	Waypoint	Radius	Name
  Takeoff	SHL088	-	Spring Hill Launch
  SSS	SHL088	400m	Spring Hill Launch
  	SHN077	400m	Spring Hill N
  	PCH063	1.6km	Poachers Pantry
  	SHL088	800m	Spring Hill Launch
  	SHS084	400m	Spring Hill S
  	ACH076	400m	Anchow Hill
  	QKV068	400m	Quarry Kaveneys Rd
  	NJR062	400m	Nanima and Johnson Rd
  ESS	SHL088	800m	Spring Hill Launch
  GOAL	SHL088	400m	Spring Hill Launch

• Shortest path: 12.5km

• Through centers: 19.3km