Sean,

My understanding is that pilots that fly under the "normal" weight
for their glider type, do not get a handicap reduction. So instead
they fly with lead bars to get to the normal weight. Or they fly
light ( real light in the case of Sarah Arnold) and give up an
unfair advantage.

Are you proposing allowing lead ballast?

Richard Walters

At 00:13 28 November 2012, wrote:
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:54:51 PM UTC-8, Richard
Walters wrote:
Let's not forget what I consider the most unfair IGC CC rule
of

all- no actual weight based handicapping. So if I fly a Discus
b at

825 pounds and BB flies a Discus a at 700 pounds, we fly
with

the same handicap. I would have a one pound PSF wing
loading

advantage, which would be helpful anywhere but the maybe
the

UK.

Big, heavy guys take note. I weigh 100 kg. BB considerably

less.



Richard Walters




The reference weight for Discus a & b is 367 kg. Every 10 kg
incurs a
handicap increase of 0,005. Yes, there can be a wing loading
difference
but it's accounted for in the handicap.

Copied from current handicap list:

"The handicap is based on the performance at the New IGC
Reference Mass.
If a glider is flown at a mass not exceeding this reference
mass it can be
considered as operated within legal mass limits.
Where a glider is flown at a higher mass by necessity, the pilot
will have
to provide documentation to prove that his glider is
still operated within legal mass limits and the handicap will be
increased
by 0,005 for each 10 kg or part thereof that the glider
exceeds the reference mass. However the wing loading may in
no case exceed
38 kg/m2. In addition the handicap may in no
case exceed 1,09."

Sean Franke