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On May 29, 2:19*am, Andy wrote:
On May 28, 6:48*am, wrote: Back at the 2006 Club Class Worlds in Vinon France we went on a 498km assigned task, in thunderstorms, and I think I pushed my Libelle around at @ 113kmh - and that only gave me 5th or 6th on the day. Still - shows that "old" gliders can certainly go out on long, assigned tasks like the "FAI" classes. Tim EY Impressive - Tim's example rightly takes the wind out of the argument that the US needs a separate Club Class based on the belief that Club Class gliders can't go out on "big boy" tasks. 9B 9B, I disagree. Those of us who support a Club Class in America aren't concerned about the length of the task called. Heck no. What we want is the ability to call Racing Tasks (also called Assigned Tasks) instead of just Turn Area Tasks and Modified Assigned Tasks. We also want a group of gliders more closely matched in performance. And, we would like to get a handle on the assignment of handicaps. Since many other countries already fly Club Class, I think they are using an IGC based system of assigning handicaps. Is it any better than the Carl Herald (sp?) system (and modified Carl Herald numbers) that we now use? I hope so. And maybe we here in the US can start using the IGC handicaps for future Club Class races. I flew in the First United States Club Class Race in Cordele, Georgia just a couple of weeks back and it was real fun to line up on the grid and not see a bunch of ASW-27's, Duo Discii, Ventus V2's, Discus D2's, JS1's, 304s', Diana's, etc in our class. The weather cooperated one day for a real assigned task to be called. Hallelujah! Unfortunately, the Cordele weather of legend didn't show up and the three other days we flew, we had Turn Area Tasks. But at least our CD, Sam Giltner, kept the circles small which gave us more of a chance to stay and race together rather than spreading us out over many square miles that really big circles can do. I'm not concerned about "big boy" tasks. Of course, any of my friends who might be tasked to come get me might have a bit more concern... Sincerely, Ray Lovinggood Carrboro, North Carolina, USA |
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