2007 US Contest Rules Poll and Meeting Minutes

No problem here, SSA page, then click on Sailplane Racing, then click
on Rules, then open 2008 Proposed Rule Changes PDF.
With the proposed changes, the guy that hits the finish circle 50' low
will loose 2 points / 10' (2 X 5= 10 points), sounds good to me. I
also like the straight forward way to deal with sailplane
"Modifications", add a wing fairing, loose 1%, add winglets, loose 1%
(no more measuring winglet heights), add zig-zag, loose 1%. This
sounds fail and it gives the CD firm guidance to deal with modified
ships. Looks like I will get tagged with a 2% reduction to the
published .939 for my Genesis 2 which becomes .920 due to wing fairing
and zig-zag additions. That sound just about right, the fairing got it
to climb in a 1 knot thermal and the zig-zag slowed down the thermal
speed to 45 knots. She will now climb with most ships and it always
did run like sting. This is a major change, so it won't take affect
until 2009.
Good on you guys,
JJ


On Dec 17, 2:19 pm, " wrote:
Thanks for the "headsup" on the postings Hank. Unfortuanately I've not
been able to access any of that data from the SSA website as
indicated . Anyone else having difficulty ?

Ron (ZA).