On Jan 22, 1:00*am, Howard Banks
wrote:
To change this a bit, has anybody else noticed that the results of the poll
of pilots by the contest committee on this subject were heavily against
changing the sports class and introducing a club class variant? *
Does this committee -- or the rules part of it -- take no notice of the
results of these polls, or what?

At 03:20 22 January 2009, Pat Russell wrote:

In the IGC rules, the factor applied to your speed or distance is the
ratio of your handicap to the handicap of the best glider at the
contest. *In the US Sports Class, the factor is the handicap itself.

The difference causes the boundary between points for finishers and
non-finishers to be shifted. *The amount of shift depends on which
gliders show up for the contest *(in the IGC case).

-Pat

Yes, but how many pilots voted against who never fly in Sports class.

If we had Sports class only pilots voting on this subject the results
would probably be different.

Let's have a contest and we will see how many pilots will show up.