New Class for US Nationals

On Nov 9, 12:50*pm, Kevin Christner wrote:
This assumes there is no difficulty in crossing the gaps or getting on course. *Personally (having owned a Ka8) I would not want to be attempting to cross the seven sisters with the wind 25kts WNW and a 4k cloud base. *Killer ridge day, the low performers might not make it onto the course.

2C

Every handicapped class has this problem. Handicaps are fair on
average, but some days the nimbus has to cross a gap the 1-26 does not
have to cross, and on other days the 1-26 simply can't stay up. The
mean is right, the variance is greater.

We made a major improvement by splitting the sports class in two. Now
we're not flying 1-26 vs. Nimbus 4.

If you think that the handicap groups are still too wide, then either

1) bring us lots more gliders, so we can have narrower handicap groups
but more than 3 gliders per "class." RW's pure club class can happen
if 12 gliders below 1.0 start showing up so we can have 3 classes.

2) Go fly FAI classes. The 15 meter class is basically a one-design
class at the moment. 27 and V2.

John Cochrane
John Cochrane