Your thought process is the problem Dan. You are plain wrong about this. Kempton did not intend to fly into the cloud. He looked at his panel a second too long. Are you saying he is a schmuck? That he was cheating? That he was trying to get an extra 200 feet for his OLC distance? That is so ridiculous that I have a hard time restraining myself here...

The relevant facts are that this example (Kempton) is very much how contest pilots fly (like it or not). This will happen again and again until one day a pilot panics and dies. That is very poor decision making in my opinion.

1)People makes mistakes.
2)Pilots make mistakes.
3)Contest pilots make mistakes.
4)Gliders are dangerous enough.
5)People, pilots and contest pilots are honest sportsman in general.
6)If someone makes this mistake they might just die. It is a mistake that we are concerned about. It does happen...read the article again.
7)We should allow any & all instruments which aid this situation WAY before outlawing it because one idiot somewhere, someday might cheat. In fact, cheating should not even be a consideration.
8)Safety should have ALL the weighting.
9)This rule in unenforced.
10)This rule is unenforceable.