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photos and comments are courtesy of Ian Grant and are from a task he flew
in a Gatineau Gliding Club contest.
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A Typical photo delcaration,
pre take-off.
This system is now superseded by GPS. The declaration board shows Iroquois Dam and Summerstown Airport as
turnpoints but a shorter task was called in the air in view of weak conditions.
The dark diagonal stripe in the photos is the Official Observer's photo
control mark on the canopy. It is across the camera's field of view and
appears in the all pictures taken while the camera was mounted in the cockpit.
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This is the start photo, taken
over Pendleton Airport (near Ottawa) at an altitude of between 3,000 and
3,500 feet. Note the gliders at the launch point below the wingtip. Since
the runway visible ahead of them is all that is needed for landings, a
suitable landing field would appear about that long from this height.
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The Casselman turnpoint, seen
here from around 1200 ft AGL, is a few miles south of Pendleton near Highway
417 and a train track. Note the yellowish fields with cut crop patterns
in the middle and right foreground of the picture. These would be good
landout choices if a climb away had failed. The green fields with mottled
darker patches are rough pasture or crop and would be less desirable.
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