Is everybody afraid of World Class?

On 23 Aug 2004 06:36:44 -0700, (Todd Smith) wrote:


1) good one-design competition ?
NO, it's too damn slow ! and ugly !

Totally ignoring that it is flying ONLY against others of the same
type. It's no uglier than any other plastic ship. They all suck.


My question to the PW-5 supporters.

Would YOU buy one ? As the glider YOU flew every good soaring day ?
If you want the class to grow, sell whatever you have and buy a PW-5.

If you can give any rational reason that you want them to disappear,
and the class to die, other than "it's not your thing", it might shed
a little light on the subject. From the many, many threads that have
blasted anything less than 40:1, it's quite obvious why it's not being
a success. In other words, if you're not interested, you are only
joining the small number of high volume bigmouths that wish only to
impress their "standards" on others and have pretty much killed the
class in the process.

When I started, my interest was in the 1-26, and in particular, MY
1-26, not a half a dozen others, and it was my intention to stick with
the one type. Net result, I haven't been in a cockpit for nearly
three years now, and have no intention of subjecting myself to the
verbal barrage of BS again. It's a blooming hobby, I don't have to do
it, much less seek the approval of someone else of how I choose to do
it. Now, if it were as easy to shut mouths as it is to stay away and
NOT do it. Guidance and help cease to be guidance and help when they
become blockheaded opinions, as are all of the PW threads here. It's
far easier and far cheaper for me to stay away and spend the money on
something that makes sense.