On Friday, August 8, 2014 10:20:46 AM UTC-5, John Cochrane wrote:
We have excellent one-design racing right now. It's called 15 meter class.. V2 or ASW27, take your pick. Performance basically indistinguishable, less than 5 points per day, and the variation across gliders of one make is far greater than the variation across designs. That's especially true now as they get older and need some TLC. No new production, so they are going to be competitive for decades. And there is a huge supply of them sitting around.



Looking at the worlds, ability to fly in atrocious weather seems a lot more important than a centimeter or so of cockpit width and a point of LD.



John Cochrane

Thank you for injecting some rationality!

At the Regional level, I would add LS6s, V1s, and even tricked out ASW-20s - all are so close that the stick actuator makes the real difference!

Why would I give up my LS6 for an LS4? Nice plane (I've partnered in one) but I like going faster!

As usual, Sean is babbling about his alternate reality without, apparently, understanding how the real world works...

Kirk
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