How about Perry ?

Will we have little handicaps there for FAI classes ?

Ryszard Krolikowski

That's up to organizers and CDs, with pilot input. The rules provide great flexibility for regional contests. The downside of flexibility is you have to think a bit about what you want.

Some of the many available options

Classic FAI classes: open, 18, 15, standard, 13.5. Senior, Junior, Feminine if you want.

Handicapped FAI classes. FAI class rules. Water ok or dry, at organizer discretion. Handicap ranges anything you want. Handicap ranges can and IMHO should overlap -- let pilots on the edge decide where they want to fly. You can stop handicapping at some point but still allow lower performance in as done with standard nationas.

Classes can be divided by pilot skill or ambition (length, difficulty or type of task, i.e. "leisure class" with 2 hour tasks vs. "seizure class" with 4 hour tasks, "assigned task class" vs. "TAT MAT class", etc.), organizational features (team / radio / mentoring / silent; wet / dry; drop a day vs. regular scoring) as well as by glider type.

Classic sports class

Multiple sports classes. Any handicap range you want. "US club" from 0.899 and below is fine. "US team club" is fine. "FAI club" is fine. "13.5 and less wingspan" is fine. "Below club" is one I wish we had more of -- all gliders whose handicap is greater than allowed on the US team club class list.

All of the above ideas for classes based on tasks, rules options, etc. are fine based on the rules. But it does mean CDs and CMs need to think a bit about what will be most attractive to their pilots, and pilots with strong opinions might want to talk to their CDs about what they want. I've already lobbied for radio usage at Perry!

John Cochrane