At 15:20 08 August 2014, John Cochrane wrote:

We have excellent one-design racing right now. It's called 15 meter
class.
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V2 or ASW27, take your pick. Performance basically indistinguishable,
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than 5 points per day, and the variation across gliders of one make is
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greater than the variation across designs. That's especially true now as
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hey get older and need some TLC. No new production, so they are going to
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competitive for decades. And there is a huge supply of them sitting
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Try less rich North American thinking
1 x V2/ASW27= 1.5 - 2 x LS4
V2a/b + W27 production LS4production
LS 4 Better club ship? More accessible to wider range of pilots. One design
means one design.


Looking at the worlds, ability to fly in atrocious weather seems a lot
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important than a centimeter or so of cockpit width and a point of LD.=20

of course having both helps - Kawa, D2a and SZD56-2

Its not atrocious weather - its 'European' weather - learn to fly in it..

John Cochrane