turnpoint

What is worse is getting to the downwind turnpoint too low and drifting beyond the turnpoint. However, that generally doesn't happen from a planned tactical decision.

You might have heard of the theory to get into the upwind turnpoint low and the downwind turnpoint high.

Let's discuss doing this correctly before I admit how I did this incorrectly. As you are looking ahead for thermals

For all of you following Adam Wolley's Gliding Adventures. He had a video after Day 1 at the Australian Multiclass Nationals. Interviewing Peter Temple the day 1 winner. Peter mentions his strategy to align his legs into and down wind. With a 12 kph faster speed, I think he made it work.

G. Dale has some great illustrations in

Navigating to the turnpoint safely is crucial. It is very easy to get caught up looking at the GPS. It displays the mileage and direction. But what it does not do is see other traffic, follow energy lines, look for thermals, read the clouds, plan your next leg...

Everyone took a different path and made thousands of decisions however many times they all end up evening out and arrive to the turnpoint

In my first contest, the scorer didn't want to deal with developing film, so he loaned me a Garmin GPS to record my flight. I safely stored it and flew the contest turnpoints as if I were taking pictures of each one. This resulted in missing each turnpoint and accumulating enough turnpoint penalties to get a negative score for the day.

Most of the missed turnpoints today are from pilots being