Without commenting on a particular task, I humbly suggest the real problem is contest attendance - or rather the lack of it.

Asking pilots at_a_contest about task preferences is looking through the wrong end of the telescope. For meaningful data - and to grow contest flying - one should be asking those NOT attending contests what sort of tasks THEY prefer.

I suspect the answers to this hypothetical survey would range from "Those we understand." to "You won't like the answer."

On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 2:03:28 PM UTC-6, John Cochrane wrote:
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If the pilots at the contest don't like it, the pilots at the contest should complain to the task advisers and cds.

John Cochrane



On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 2:03:28 PM UTC-6, John Cochrane wrote:
As much as I hate "races" with 30 mile cylinders, lots of pilots seem to like flying the OLC. If this is what it takes to get them to fly in sanctioned contests, so be it. The rules allow assigned tasks, short MAT, long MAT, turn areas with lots of small turns, or turn areas with huge radii. If the pilots at the contest are happy, who are we to complain, from our armchairs a thousand miles away. If the pilots at the contest don't like it, the pilots at the contest should complain to the task advisers and cds.

John Cochrane