US SSA Contest Pilot Opinion Poll

On 9/24/2010 8:45 AM, Richard wrote:
On Sep 24, 5:10 pm, wrote:


Please adopt the FAI rules and stop wasting everyone's time with
inventing new ones! Use any surplus energy to participate in
refining the FAI rules if changes are needed.

Andy- Hide quoted text -


I agree with Andy adopt the FAI Rules. Don't you guys on the rules
committee have something better to do like fly gliders. Guy may also
be able to fly more rather than pumping code.

You could use an established accurate scoring program like SeeYou
Competition.

Speaking as a 35 year SSA member, a former Board of Directors member, a
former contest pilot, but still very active pilot, I have believed the
following for decades:

"The USA contest rules primary goal, in my opinion, should be to
maximize soaring participation in the USA. I don't care what rules are
used as long as they achieve this goal, and all rules should be judged
against this goal. If the rules obtained in the pursuit of this goal are
not the optimum for selecting or preparing the US Team for the World
contests, that is an unfortunate but acceptable outcome."

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)