The meet organizers at the Worlds did a great job getting the
official Perugia airspace moved far away from Montecucco so that we wouldn't get
near it when flying from there. Unfortunately, on the first task day of the
competition we did not fly from Montecucco but from Subasio to the south east
and much closer to the newly aligned airspace. In fact the airspace was two to
two and a half kilometers in front of launch (it normally is right at launch)
and extends all the way to the ground.

The OpenAir airspace file was apparently not automatically downloaded when
pilots received their GPS download at the beginning of the meet. It seemed to be
available only later. I just happened to see that someone was getting the
airspace definition file so I asked for it to be downloaded to my 6030.
According to Heather team leaders were informed of the fact that the file was
available for downloading (after the initial waypoint downloading) but that
numerous pilots seemed to be unaware of this. I wasn't informed by my team
leader.

At the task briefing on launch it was mentioned that the airspace was within
four kilometers of the third turnpoint and within one kilometer of the goal (and
extended all the way to the ground). But it wasn't directly pointed out (but
could be seen on the large map that was displayed) that it was in fact quite
close to launch.

I launched early and after getting up followed other pilots west toward the
valley and toward airspace. I switched to my map display and zoomed out to see
the airspace differentiated by dark lines from the light task lines. I could see
that I was close but out of airspace. Later I went out into the valley again,
and then didn't switch to my map display until it was almost too late. I turned
around after getting to within thirteen meters of the airspace line.

In checking out Primoz's track log later I saw that he came within twenty four
meters on the airspace line when he was going toward the third turnpoint
following a line to the right of the course line. It looked like he just turned
in a thermal and may not have been aware of how close he was to the airspace. I
checked with Flavio and one pilot stopped right on the air space line and turned
around. There was a hundred meter error buffer that the meet organizers used in
which pilots would only get a warning, not a zero for the day for entering
airspace. Five pilots received a zero for the day and no one received a warning.

The five pilots who went into airspace went way into airspace, a few kilometers.
I assume that they did this near launch as I saw a number of them do this. The
dark cu's continued in that direction and it was upwind, so pilots would be
tempted to head out there and try to get a better start around upwind side of
the thirty two kilometer entry start cylinder.

You can see who got zeros here:
http://www.cucco2011.org/.
Two of those pilots made goal. You can see their track logs here:
http://www.livetrack24.com/tasks/268/score. You may be able to convert these
tracklogs to IGC format (and you can see them in Google Earth) but you may
need a new version of GPSDump. Hopefully a new version (past 4.63) will be up soon
here:
http://home.gethome.no/stein.sorensen/body_gpsdump.htm. You most likely
won't have an amended version of the airspace that is applicable to the airspace
used here at the competition, but look at my track log and you'll see what line
is used for the amended airspace.

The special airspace alignment that we were granted (and granted for all future
competitions) is only in effect during the competition. Subasio is a very
popular paragliding and hang gliding site. Draw your own conclusions.