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As much as I hope that folks won’t cheat in soaring, I’m not optimistic.. I’ve seen WAY too much in my younger years in competitive golf (the gentleman’s sport cough). It still continues today. I play very little golf these days and one of the main reasons is the cheating. One of the most effective ways I saw of stopping it was to publically humiliate the offender in front of a large crowd of his/her peers. That works on many levels to bring an end to it. Let’s hope we don’t have to go to go down this road in soaring.
Craig
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That's right. That is totally right. The few 'losers' (and it is always the few) that are psyco-crazed to get ahead, and cheat to do so, will, period. Still around this after 25 yrs on the world wide ocean racing scenes. Mega high profile people, with more money then God to lowly club racers, doing this crap, unbelievable. Psychos. It's the few.
The only cure is to fight back from within, via peer pressure, Forcing a Race Committee Protest response in the Protest Room. Race people must be willing to police themselves, even when it brings you into the Colosseum. I can only imagine that it would be a rare occasion, that someone files a protest, being that the air racing crowd actually is so small. Minimal load on the RC. Plenty of sweet drama when there is. These people would eventually get nailed, and when they do, a HUGE red flag gets planted -forever- in their head, earmarking them as 'potential' cheaters. Now lots of eyes, every time you race just might be painting your back side - psych out pressure. Race committee's response should be severe, hit the pocketbook too, like, you don't have to get out of town, but you're not leaving the tarmac again in this regatta with our tow boys, not even for rec flying, brother. Oh, and thanks for your entrance fee, your meal tickets are void too, (ya cheese-ball).
How do you protest? Log your position when you have a visual, hopefully you can see the tail feathers or recognize the plane. File, RC goes to work, does data logger analysis of both loggers, maybe from others too. Sees that you were at X feet, in visual range of the protest-ee, and based on the meteorology, and other pilot inputs as to actual cloud bases of the day, .... grinds it out....swings the gavel. It can go either way. But sh-t always end up stinking eventually.
Ban equipment? Software? Forget about it. I want that stuff with me. I want to be able BROADCAST out in a emergency situation if I were to screw up, for others to hear - "Alpha Bravo, going IFR, switching to AH over 'ThankgoodGodalmighty Peak' " and take 0.0 pts for the day, and launch the next day, with my friends.....
Over and out.