On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:15:00 -0800, delboy wrote:

Just about every country in the World runs Club Class competitions,
except for the US. It's one of the most popular and highly competitive
national competition in the UK.

I think he meant running Club Class to the letter of the IGC rules,
including the IGC list of eligible gliders and and using the IGC
handicaps.

We certainly don't do that: the BGA handicaps differ from the IGC ones,
and I don't mean merely that 100 is the BGA baseline compared with 1.00
for the IGC. The list of elegible gliders is a lot smaller too:

Glider BGA IGC

LS-8 100 n/a
ASW-20 98 1.08
LS-7 97 1.07
Pegase 95 1.04
Std Cirrus 90 1.00
ASW-15 89 0.99
H-201 Libelle 89 0.98
Club Libelle 86 0.96
G-102 Astir 85 n/a
SZD Junior 83 n/a
PW-5 81 n/a (same as a Ka-6e)

Most countries have gone metric, and we have been buying motor fuel in
litres for years in the UK.

What suddenly caused petrol to be sold in litres was Maggie Thatcher
waking up to the approach of the £2.00 gallon. She thought this would be
a political no-no so suddenly we were sold it in litres to disguise the
rising price.

And what a mess the UK made of metrication when they followed Canada,
Australia and NZ down that path. We all watched our predecessors and
avoided their mistakes, but did the UK do that? Nooooo! They refused to
learn from our experience and made a right cock-up of the process, not
only making all the mistakes we'd discovered but inventing a few new ones
as well.


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