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    Missing a Turnpoint

    September 28, 2017

    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

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