This is going to turn into a massive challenge to enforce...silly.

My view on enforcement, etc.

We don't have detailed scrutineering now. We rely a lot on pilot
honesty.

Honesty is helped a lot by a feeling that everybody else isn't doing
it. Right now, US contest pilots don't cloud fly.

With that in mind, the rules really can't let you have a big honking
artificial horizon in the middle of the panel. And you can't have an
installed insturment that uses gyros and provides similar, serious,
cloud-flying ability. Not just might it tempt you, but its presence
might lead others to suspect that they have to cloud fly to keep up
with you.

Yes, it is theoretically possible to cloud fly using a GPS moving map,
or your iphone, or watching a pendulum. It's also possible to sneak
off on to other frequencies and team fly, or use your iphone to look
at the visible satellite loop, or sneak in walkie talkies to team fly.
If you do that, you're nuts, and you know you're cheating. There's no
prize money or groupies. There's also no paid staff of CDs and
scrutineers. For the moment at least, all these options are so
unreliable that it's really not worth putting in the enforcement
costs. Enforcement is, we just don't do stuff like this.

If you're thinking about cheating, think about the glory of winning
one contest vs. the lifelong shame of being caught cheating.


I think some of us need to get out and go flying before cabin fever
gets any worse. I know I do! Three "currency" flights in an ASK21
last weekend were the most fun I've had in months.

John Cochrane