On Friday, November 9, 2012 7:15:03 PM UTC-5, Paul T wrote:
moment. 27 and V2. John Cochrane Club Class is an FAI class! - however big bucks differnce between buying a std cirrus or a v2/27 - why not try running it for a few years as a comp within the IGC definition - you have no probllem doing that with other FAI classes, and see what happens rather than basing things on past history - if you want a sports class have it as a seperate comp - my feeling is you will find club class will be your most subscribed class after a few years.

One of the problems to be solved was how to implement the Club class without gutting Sports and leaving the people running it with tasking the low performance gliders and the very high performance gliders with nothing in the middle. This approach solves that problem as well as giving a group innthe middle a choice of which class to fly.
It is likely that there will not be a large number of low performance gliders(those below IGC Club performance), but they still need a place to compete. This will allow Club to develop itself.
The principle that nobody gets sent home is a cornerstone our our philosophy.
If the class is a bit less "Clubby" so be it.
UH