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December 26, 2024
Success on any given day often hinges on how well you begin. A solid start can set the tone for the rest of the race, positioning you for optimal performance to use all conditions optimally. Here’s a guide to help you make a good start and build a strong foundation for success.
Understand the Rules and Task assigned
Before the race
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August 24, 2023
I’m writing to you from Uvalde, TX. What a wonderful country you all have, so far we’ve experienced lovely hospitality and conditions, plus of course much much more! One of the key factors to our success so far has been that we’ve had the right start strategy, though on one day I have to admit that we got it wrong, after starting right! In this article, I hope to talk about
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March 08, 2018
This is the first part in a series of 'How to Lose Points'. Bright Ideas that slowed me down, lost me points or got me stuck.
Saving time by writing over my previous day's task. Sitting on the grid inputting the flight computer I would just click on the previous day's task. Click on turnpoint Number 1 change it to the current turnpoint, and continue with the task edit that way. This saved me
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April 06, 2017
When I think ridge racing I think Mifflin PA. The first two times I flew there it was with local pilot Mike Robison in his Nimbus 3DM. We were dry but lugging an Austrian beauty behind the cockpit. As we cruised on the ridge we were generally the fastest.
What I did learn from this is that no matter how much faster we were the time was lost in the transitions. We had a few times where we pushed