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Old December 22nd 13, 06:52 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Peter Stafford Allen
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Default South African Nationals 2013 - one more day ..... The JS1s are doing quite well.......

At 07:13 22 December 2013, Ian wrote:
On 12/21/2013 10:43 PM, wrote:

The fat lady has warbled .....


Then I think it is a fair time to comment on the handicapping that was
used, particularly as applied to 15m class:

For example on 2013-12-16:

ASW 20 03:24:39 111.5km/h 380.4km 1000
ASW 27 03:05:24 123.1km/h 380.4km 910

The ASW 27 is 12km/h faster than the ASW 20 but it is scored 900 points
less. How fast does the '27 driver have to go before he can get 1000
points too?


Ian


Ian,
In strong conditions an ASW27 is amazingly fast and to be only about 10%
faster than a ASW20 is really not enough, though it looks as if the 20
pilot did do something clever/lucky since he scored top marks