Frank, It sure smack's of a monopoly ploy but on either account to change
the requirement without a diligent time frame (ie a policy period) since I
have already paid for mine in good faith, is unfair and will preclude me
from joining any contests until I decide if this is worth it to me.

Second to that is that there are more than two dogs in this fight and there
opinions differ. I have talked to both Costello and Avemco and made a
choice based on there approach to this question. We have had a similar
issue with land owners requirements in Prescott and its easier to just
pass on the libility and cost to the end user, us the glider pilots, when
whats at stake, in my opinion, is personal liability not the SSA's or the
land owners.

Give the lawyers a deep pocket and they will stick there hands into it!

CH Ventus B

At 16:14 20 December 2011, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Dec 20, 8:00=A0am, Cliff Hilty
wrote:
I agree, there is a need for both and the sports class should be for
"new=
"
pilots to racing or/and very low performance handicapped gliders. While
club class should be flown in Club class gliders Which is by far the
largest segment of gliders out there just very few of them fly in
contest=
s
because of getting beat badly in FAI classes with no handicap or
getting
beat in soports by a 1.54 handicapped 1-26 flying a 2.5 hour TAT and
only
going 70 miles while club class has to go twice as far. Trying to
combine
such diverse handicaps is just to dependant on weather.

And to answer your question about Moriarty I may not considering the
SSA'=
s
last minute decision to change the Insurance requirements without
notification for SSA sanctioned contests-----but that should be another
thread entirely!

The SSA did not change the requirements, they remain as before. It
was determined that at least one underwriter's policies, as written,
did not meet the coverage requirements for SSA sanctioned contests,
thus a clarifying document was presented. The SSA was planning to
reach out to one said underwriter to consider a modification in the
language and limits of their coverage. I don't know if this has been
done yet, but it was felt it was important to communicate this to
pilots as soon as possible. A straw poll of a few pilots determined
they were unaware of their policy limitations.

Frank Whiteley