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Rotate the gate?
Alternate gates? My God, we got people that can't remember which way to finish and your solution is to use the finish line one day and the finish cylinder, the next? Have you ever heard the term KISS? It stands for Keep It Simple, Stupid and is a time honered way to prevent screw-ups. We have contests with several classes and they don't all go on the same task. To further complicate things, we often change tasks, sometimes in the air. The KISS rule is now streatched pretty thin and you want to add another layer of confusion by "rotating the gate"? Which way and for which class? BTW, rotating doesn't solve anything, the pilots will still head for the nearest corner, won't they? I see your comments as nothing more than attempt to keep alive a dying dinosaur, so that you can continue to have "fun". P7 shared his near death experience in the dinosaur gate and you told him there was poor judgement and ignorance involved. Well, now we have a point on which we can agree; Poor judgement to keep using the proven unsafe finish gate and ignorance on the part of an organization that continues to allow its use. JJ Sinclair BTW, you'll see no dinosaurs at Montague. |
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