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On Jun 10, 8:54*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Jun 10, 6:28*pm, Frank wrote: On Jun 10, 6:43*pm, Scott Alexander wrote: SSA contest numbers are unique but they are assigned to a person not a sailplane. Maybe that is the rub.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yes I own the rights to SA my contest ID. *But suppose my friend let me use his Discus to do the flight, it wouldn't have made a flip of difference of the validity of the flight. *Again, the only problem here is that I typed in SA vs. N-2429. *So therefor it makes the whole entire claim Invalid. I appreciate the fact that we have dedicated people in this sport who are going provide checks and balances to badges and record claims. *I really do appreciate them. *It would take the fun out of soaring if somebody set a record using an engine. *But this is overkill. I got a few emails today on an appeal process. *Hopefully this will get overturned. *Diamonds don't grow on trees down here in Memphis....doing the flight again in a club class glider would call for some more good luck. I too lost a 500K flight recently due to the same sort of nonsense. *I have been at many SSA sessions where everyone at the table wrings their hands and says "we aren't getting new people into the sport" and "our membership is decreasing - what can we do to bring in new members?". *Meanwhile, back at SSA headquarters, badge and record flights are being rejected right and left for no good reason, thereby alienating the members we do have. *I personally no longer give a rat's ass about badge and record flights because you have to take two lawyers and an accountant along with you on the flight, and I only have a single-place glider. TA Frank, I don't think it is the SSA. It is the IGC. The SSA is following the IGC rules as clarified in painful detail to them by the IGC. If the SSA decides to just ignore the IGC rules then I could see the final outcome would be to lose FAI record and badge setting authority. I agree it's worth identifying the jackass responsible for this, but I don't think it is the SSA. Darryl Darryl, You have my sympathy but you're in good company - hundreds if not thousands of pilots have had badge claims denied over the years because of a paperwork glitch. It pays to read the rules - and have a good OO looking over your shoulder as you fill out the forms. It happened to me. I flew an 300 km out and return but got credit for Gold Distance and not Diamond Goal because the start and finish were 1 km apart - not the same point - my bad. I didn't complain, I just cleared the memory of the Volkslogger and flew another 300 km O&R for Diamond Goal. Both flights were a lot of fun so I didn't have much to complain about. Bill D |
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