snoop wrote:

"Requiring mental math"? Methinks this is the root of the problem, and
KC has himself given it to us. To me the real champs in our sport, can
do the required math, and do it handsomely. What if the battery dies.
Oh, just crash, can't do math.

I agree with you on the "insecurities" issue. Mine is that when I go
flying whether it be in my glider or at work, that there might be some
idiot in the air who can't do the required math!


This argument isn't about saving "the real champs in our sport." Your chief
proponent of the "Cylinder" has used the example of a fellow who was over
the finish line at 50 kts and 50 ft and still thought he ought to pull up to
some sort of pattern -- not exactly a championship move.

There is no way you are going to rule out that kind of misjudgment
occurring, whether in the Cylinder or in a low fast dash to the threshold --
it will just take different forms.

Everybody needs to be a bit more careful with their examples, a bit less
polemical, and provide a lot more hard data. So far all we have is strong
feelings on both sides and minds already set in cement.


Jack