No, you guys would rather have multiple gliders coming from different
directions at high speed with all the pilots focussing on looking at
there GPS's screens.

We use our radio to tell each other direction and altitude as we enter
the finish cylinder and head-on trafic is 2 miles from each other at
the finish.

It seems to me that when you guys were all flying comps when you were
younger there seemed to be no problem with low level finish but now
your are all over 65 it's all to dangerous.

May be, but the line finish was the only way to finish the race in the
distant past. Now days we have GPS and flying low and fast over
people, places and things is no longer necessary. Don't the FAR's have
something to say about flying below 500 feet while not in the act of
landing? Please don't tell me the low finisher is, "in the act of
landing". Has he slowed down? Has he lowered the landing gear? Has he
lowered the flaps? Has he made a down-wind call? No, No, No and No!
The Federallies could rip us a new one over this.

So lets ban comp finish, but make it perfectly alright to complete a
task after you have had a midair.

By the time both pilots sorted out what had happened, they were miles
apart and escorting the damaged ship to a safe landing was no longer
an option. He struck the other ship with his nose and knew that
portion of his ship was OK. He had another competitor look him over.
Why shouldn't the un-damaged ship continue?

JJ (old and sincerely trying to get older)