"Ray Lovinggood" wrote in message
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So, why were NEW numbers/letters required and not,
say, the last two or three numbers/letters of the glider's
registration?

The 1-26 association uses numbers reflecting their
serial numbers, I think. Why did they do that and
not their registration numbers?

My glider is registered as N564L and the competition
number is W8. Why did The Powers That Were (and probably
still are) decide using '4L' or '64L' wasn't good enough
(Painted and stuck on big and large) and decided we
needed 'vanity numbers?'


Maybe because there would have quite a lot of same IDs. And here in Europe
in many countries there are only numbers, so clashes would have been
inevitable.

Of course there are still clashes in worlds, but probably not so many. In
most countries (I think) the soaring association takes care that no two IDs
coincide.

h