Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

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Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Fingers » Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:21 pm

Never been into racing gliders IRL so this is a new interesting concept, one which is catching me out.

I have been downloading tasks and ghosts maybe 10 or as many on offer to at least have others in the air. Sticking some music of choice on the cans, jumping into VR and loosing myself in the mountains and hills, very relaxing. Not really following anyone as you have to wait a long time for the ghosts to get going, I also like to find my own way, right or wrong. I have been completing the tasks but certainly not the fastest, so now knowing the terrain a little more I have another go at the same task. And this is where it all goes wrong, I am focused on speed, speed, speed and more speed, not survival.

Are all these online tasks new and different every time or do they repeat? Its impressive some of the times done by the fast folks first go at a new unknown task if this is the case.

Every time I go online I have missed the race so not getting the live experience, some time tables of when races start would be great. Do the servers not offer this information?

Cheers.

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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by wickid » Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:25 pm

Tchintchin is daily at 15:30 UTC in summer and 16:30 UTC in winter. Usually around 40 pilots in summer and many more in winter.

Competitions post their server times on condor.club website. You can register for them an receive briefings before the race so you can prepare.
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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Fingers » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:21 pm

wickid wrote:
Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:25 pm
Tchintchin is daily at 15:30 UTC in summer and 16:30 UTC in winter. Usually around 40 pilots in summer and many more in winter.

Competitions post their server times on condor.club website. You can register for them an receive briefings before the race so you can prepare.
Thanks, but I missed it!! Was all set for the Tchintchin. So the server is not there in the lists till its turned on it looks like, then how long do you have once its on and visible to then join. The join window seems very short?

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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Bre901 » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:26 pm

Servers #1 & #2 start at 17:28 CET/CST (UTC+2 in summer) (40 pilots each)
For latecomers, server #3 starts at 17:38
Then there is a backup server at 18:38

All join-times are 20 minutes

More information here : viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19355&p=166749#p166749
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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Fingers » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:29 pm

Bre901 wrote:
Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:26 pm
Servers #1 & #2 start at 17:28 CET/CST (UTC+2 in summer) (40 pilots each)
For latecomers, server #3 starts at 17:38
Then there is a backup server at 18:38

All join-times are 20 minutes
Cheers, and does the race repeat or is it a one race per night thing?

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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Bre901 » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:34 pm

Fingers wrote:
Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:29 pm
Cheers, and does the race repeat or is it a one race per night thing?
One race per day, with re-flies later in the evening on D+1, D+2 and D+3, as mentioned in my link above
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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Fingers » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:38 pm

Bre901 wrote:
Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:34 pm
Fingers wrote:
Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:29 pm
Cheers, and does the race repeat or is it a one race per night thing?
One race per day, with re-flies later in the evening on D+1, D+2 and D+3, as mentioned in my link above
Ahhhh, sorry I did not see the link.

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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Paul_UK » Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:32 pm

Fingers, I've sent you some info on the VSC Discord channel you joined up to recently as well stating our server up times, how long they're open for etc.

Different tasks are posted for each race however in between each race the server allows you to refly the task if you so wish.
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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Fingers » Wed Sep 15, 2021 12:53 pm

Cheers Paul

Already tried a few of the tasks from Discord, I enjoyed Millfield to the Solway having to avoid air space. The VSC_Scotland_169km_15m one, the finish had me beat and learned a lesson in preparation. Could have easy got to the min. height: 597 ft using the energy in the glider but failed to notice and just ended up bombing out circling the field wondering why I was not getting my well deserved cheers from the crowd :-)

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Re: Going too fast, getting ahead of myself and bombing/crashing!

Post by Paul_UK » Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:36 pm

That one has caught us all out at some point in time Steve. I will, in general, always set a min finish height. Now and then I'm sneaky and won't though, just to see if peeps are reading the flight plan :mrgreen:
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