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Old October 29th 19, 04:04 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Alex Okeefe
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Default 2019 SSA Contest Rules Pilot Opinion Poll Now Open

Watching this from the UK and finding it ever so entertaining -
thanks all.

I've somehow managed to survive all of my competition years so far
without meeting an untimely end. That includes a good number of
landouts in the early years which, would you believe with decent
training and without an unfounded and inflated percetion of risk
were carried out incident free.

I do especially enjoy that we can race on a level playing field,
without having to create scoring formulae and task formats to make
slower pilots feel like they've done better than they have. A sad
consequence of this is that the slower pilots, who score much lower
and land out more often are especially driven to improve and
become quite formidable competition. What a bother.

I know you're all fans of winscore (I had to look it up). If anyone
would like to change to Seeyou then just ask myself or one of the
many people around the world who are familiar with it to show you.
I'm afraid this could take up to 10 minutes.

Carry on!

At 15:51 19 October 2019, John Godfrey QT wrote:
On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 7:40:59 PM UTC-4, Andy

Blackburn wrote:
US contest pilots.

The 2019 SSA Contest Rules Pilot Opinion Poll is now open and

will remain
open through October 20, 2019. You must be on the SSA Pilot

Ranking List to
participate. We look forward to your input.

You can access the poll online at:

http://www.adamsfive.com/a5soaring/survey/surveys.php

Rich Owen is running unopposed for re-election to the Rules

Committee.
Consequently, Rich will return to his RC seat for a four-year term.
Congratulations Rich!

For the SSA Contest Rules Committee
Andy Blackburn, Chair
9B


Just a reminder here. In spite of the missives being written

highlighting
the "incredible downsides" of a "big switch" approach to adoption

of FAI
rules, that IS NOT WHAT IS ON THE TABLE.

What is on the table (via the poll) is: SHOULD THE 2020 FAI

CLASS NATIONALS
BE TASKED AND SCORED ACCORDING TO FAI SC3A TASK

DEFINITIONS AND SCORING
FORMULAE AND THE RESULT EVALUATED.


I am personally a bit confounded and disappointed at the

resistance to this
experiment by the introduction of all the "big switch - death panel"
arguments, which are at best peripheral to the immediate decision.

Record your opinion please.

QT