At 00:36 21 January 2020, John Foster wrote:
On Monday, January 20, 2020 at 5:23:28 PM UTC-7, mart wrote:
I completely agree that it should be pilot skills and not technology
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determines the winners.
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Your idea is unfortunately very easy to circumvent, put someone in a
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near the end of the runway at launch time with a reciever and write down
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I would more go for random turnpoints in a circle so that every pilot
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es the same distance but you wont know if the pilot you see has done more
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r less of the task than you did.

I think it could simplify a lot of things if they changed the rules to be
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ore like sailboat racing. The start line opens at a specific time, and
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ever crosses the line first is the winner. None of this delayed start
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f. Everyone is racing against each other in real time. The guys behind
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n see where the leaders are climbing, and maybe make up some time, but in
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rder to win, you have to be in front. Much like they do in SGP racing.
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at format just makes more sense to me. I realize it is quite a bit
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nt from how things have been done for many years, but it could eliminate
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lot of the advantages folks would get from this whole live-tracking
thing.

Distance Handicap Tasks do this great for handicap competition even with
pilot selected start time. see www.handicaptask.uk