Why not adjust turn area tasks so that turn area diameters
are porportional
to a competitors handicap - i.e. small diameter turn
areas for high
performance gliders and huge ones for low performance
gliders? This would
force the high performance gliders to fly much farther
than the low
performance ones to get credit for turnpoints. The
idea is a sort of an
elastic 'one size fits all' approach to task calling.
Of course, this might
require complete rejiggering of an already complex
scoring system.

Bill Daniels
Hi Bill,
In theory this is done by selecting the average point
to point
distance around the handicap of 1.00 and choosing a
radius that
allows the low and high handicap gliders to finish
the task.
There is one problem I have noticed the powers to be
do not always take this under consideration.

Rarely is a club class pilot an advisor.

Also on rare occasion when the Weather dictates a change
in mid air and one is purvey to the chatter between
the two advisors and the contest director I have noted
that the effort is centred around the 15metere class
max distance and time.
Personally it does not effect me with my glider.
I am still one of those that holds the bottom 2/3 of
the score sheet up.