In some contests luck factor exist.

At the beginning of contest organizers set maximum start altitude to

avoid situation where some pilots will climb very high before start by

incident and have big advantage on others . But on request of some

countries the limit was removed . Then two submissions of one of the

Sebastian Kawa ( one of the highest World ranked pilot) requesting

setting start altitude limit was ignored . Yesterday it happened, group

of lucky pilots in our class climbed 3,000 feet higher as the rest was

just seating ducks watching fellow competitors leaving 3,000 feet higher

which represents 30km advantage.

I hope that we will not have more days like this.

Jerzy XG