On Nov 19, 9:17*pm, Brad Alston
wrote:
All of this banter about classes, and what's fair or not for a class,
leads me to a couple of questions. Now, please understand that I am not
a competition pilot so forgive if I sound a bit naive. I have been doing
a little online research but don't find a lot of information...or I'm
looking in the wrong place!

First, what constitutes a good task? Is there an established set of
criteria used when evaluating weather, site, and aircraft?

Second, has there been any effort to programmatically "call" a task
based on a set of criteria?...like the above mentioned factors. I don't
believe you can substitute good human judgement with a set of executable
instructions ...but it may be helpful to use technology to assist with
task calling given what seems like a very complex set of variables. Who
knows, maybe the task caller could do some sort of Monte Carlo
simulations for a task, given all the variables, and have results
showing the probability of success for a number of potential tasks!

Any thoughts? How about references on task calling?

Brad A.

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Brad Alston

There's lots of good advice in the appendix to US contest rules
https://www.ssa.org/files/member/201...ss%20Rules.pdf
start reading at page 26

The "guide to competition"
https://www.ssa.org/files/member/SSA...ion%202011.pdf
has good advice oriented towards the pilots, see p. 13

the safety checklist also has a few good tips
https://www.ssa.org/files/member/Org...k%20Topics.pdf

if the links don't work, this is all from the ssa webpage under rules
and process

John Cochrane