At 00:06 12 February 2007, wrote:

Respectfully:
Why don't you guys put pink skirts around your glider
and have an old
lady contest. You're just killing the fun.

Aha, the 'real men use contest finishes' argument.
I was waiting for that one. Why not break out the
calipers and measuring tape before hand so a certain
appendage can be accurately measured for every pilot?



Those who want guarantees, stay home and wait, for
death will arrive.
More NASCAR fans die every year sitting in the stands
than all the
world combined from 'Maximum Performance Finishes',
EVER!!

OK, what is the point there?....sailplane racing involves
less then 5% of a very small group to start with.
No doubt more people die from bee stings then low finishes
also. A fatality now and again because of low finishes
is acceptable because....why?

As tragic as the accident in UK was, the facts and
statistics do not
support a change in finish height.
Meaning if the glider was 50' higher, the same fatality
would have occured?

The vast majority feel
that MPFs are an important part of competition racing
and all should
maintain a watch to assure that they're done by everyone,
safely.

The vast majority of whom? The 5% who race? What
about the vast majority of Cessna 172 pilots who would
like to buzz their home towns under 50'? Or the vast
majority of skiers who would like to ski on crowded
groomed runs at 80mph?

Your argument holds the logic of....we don't care if
someone gets killed...because this is how we want to
operate. I still did not see your response to how
insurance companies will pay out when pilots knowingly
bust FAR's...or is that not relevant to your need to
be flying low?
R


Sailplane racing does not get a pass on safety issues
from the rest of the sport....are low passes okay for
training new students? Are low passes okay when giving
rides? Are low passes okay when completing long tasks?
How about low inverted passes?