On Sunday, February 24, 2013 8:05:35 AM UTC-8, wrote:
The fall opinion poll will contain a question asking US pilots if they wish us to change as much as possible to IGC rules, in particular tasks, tasking philosophy, scoring formulas, units (metric/US), start/finish/turnpoint geometry, equipment requirements (flight recorders), class definitions etc.. We will also be sampling opinions at SRA meetings during contests this year.



With a full sampling pilot views on this question -- separated from the future of club class nationals(which will be another, separate question) -- in hand, the RC will discuss the issue in the fall.



This is the normal procedure for rules changes, especially major ones like throwing out half of an entire rule book (US) and trying to merge it (contest times, bids, sanction process, entries, ranking list, list of officials, rule adjudication process, rule making process) with another rule book (IGC). I hope you will agree doing that on the fly between now and May is impractical.



Given that this process is in place, may I suggest giving it a rest for a while?



John Cochrane

I hope when fall opinion poll questions are created it will incorporate thoughts from outside the RC. My guess is that response from the petition and this thread was a surprise. It was a surprise because the right questions on this topic have not been asked in prior RC opinion polls.

Obviously there are enough pilots to field one FAI rules based class. There is no reason to make this an "all or nothing" change. Most US pilots want and should fly contests under the current format. Don't change or throw out the book. Create a new FAI US Club Class from the ground up for those who want it.

Sean Franke, HA