Gentleman:

Perhaps my first post was mildly misunderstood. While it is great that
Club Class ships can perform like the big boys in the right hands, my
main point was not that our ships are capable of feats like the newer
ships, but rather was that we completed, at a fast speed, a called
ASSIGNED TASK (!!!) of 498km in Club Class Worlds. Getting to fly AT's
in club class ships is part of the fun of this class. In sports, it is
all theoretical racing, very rarely real racing. That takes much of
the fun out of it for me anyways.

If I had not been working weekends all spring (rowing coach), I would
definitely hauled my ass and my glider out to Cordele to have gotten
in on this 1st.

ASIDE: Rules Committee, why do we have increasing numbers of big,
popular contests in the spring when young people with real jobs and
families are stuck with school schedules or ther conflicts and have to
miss this stuff???

Getting to race against one's own and the ability to get to fly
assigned tasks against like competition (glider wise) is VERY
EXCITING. Any of the doubters should try it before they get all
defensive that the Club Class is going to eat another classes lunch.
Myabe the other classes lunch needs to be eaten inorder to breathe
more life into the other classes???

As far as Markus' stats at the last two WGC's go, some of those speed
tasks in Vinon were more or less Racing tasks - thereby skewing the
task calling way in the direction of assigned tasks in club class in
Europe

To 9B and BB and other doubters, why is there this constant drumbeat
in your posts about the evils of "specialisation" in the club class
and against the "club class specialist"???

What makes this any different from the pilot who owns a ASW-27 0 if
you are serious you are going to compete in 15m, or the pilot in a new
shiny ASG-29 - if you are serious you are going to compete in 18m.
Yeah, your ships are good enough to also swing into some other fai
classes should you wish. If youa re truly serious about flying and
winning open class, shouldn't you do it in an ASW-22 or Nimbus 4?

BUT for all of us in 1st/2nd generation glass ships, the only truly
fair and nearly head-to-head racing to be had is in a CLUB CLASS as it
is run trhoughout the rest of the world.

Flame shield on to high - but super-kudos to Sam Glitner et al for
succeeding and commiting to the Club Class idea in reality, when I
have only been able to beat the drum for it in writing. Great job
guys.

EY


On May 28, 8:48*am, wrote:
Back at the 2006 Club Class Worlds in Vinon France we went on a 498km
assigned task, in thunderstorms, and I think I pushed my Libelle
around at @ 113kmh - and that only gave me 5th or 6th on the day.
Still - shows that "old" gliders can certainly go out on long,
assigned tasks like the "FAI" classes.

Tim EY

On May 28, 6:27*am, Bob wrote:



Check out the website for the German 2009 Club Class Championships!
Sorry it is in German but a translator will let you see the important
info. The impressive 504KM task at 95kmh in a Libelle.http://www.lsv-schwarzwald.de/pages/dmwinzeln2009.php/

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