Mark James Boyd wrote:


So does the Contest ID identify the person or the sailplane?
If the glider is destroyed or sold, does the ID holder get
to move the ID number onto a different glider?

In the USA, you can show up at any SSA sanctioned contest with any
contest ID you like. If another pilot has the same ID, the pilot with it
registered with SSA gets to use it, and the other pilot has to change
his, usually with some colored tape (say, MB into 1MB). No biggie.

The SSA has a policy on how long the ID is assigned to you: basically,
use it in contests or lose it. They won't make you take it off your glider.

The "problem", if there is one, comes not from the SSA, but from pilots
who've become very attached to their ID, and resent it when someone else
uses it, even if they are on the other coast and flying in a different
class. Others don't care and have gliders all over the country with the
same ID, since they didn't bother to remove it when they sell a glider.
I've sold 3 gliders with 6A on them, but haven't ever encountered them
at a contest. The one in Canada doesn't have the 6A on it anymore, but I
don't know about the others.

The two gliders I bought new, I got the registration number to agree
with the ID (N226A and N326A).

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Eric Greenwell
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