Collision Avoidance
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August 11, 2022
We’re taught from our very first lesson about scanning for other gliders, that maintaining a scan is super important when studying clouds, or the climb rate of turning gliders ahead. Having your head buried high into a cloud for 5-10 seconds straight, studying the optimum climb point or path is far too long. Why? Everyone else is doing the same, so have a good look, then start your scanning
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August 09, 2018
This has been the phrase used repeatedly by the contest organizers. Despite that, on Day 8 we had someone not looking out. I am not here to speculate what happened. You can download the IGC files and make your own assessment of what happened. What I will say is that the entering glider impacted the thermalling glider and had not seen him. Both gliders flew back to the airport and had very minor damage.