South African Nationals 2013 - one more day ..... The JS1s are doingquite well.......

On 23/12/2013 05:52, Peter Stafford Allen wrote:
At 07:13 22 December 2013, Ian wrote:

The ASW 27 is 12km/h faster than the ASW 20 but it is scored 900 points
less. How fast does the '27 driver have to go before he can get 1000
points too?

Ian

Ian,
In strong conditions an ASW27 is amazingly fast and to be only about 10%
faster than a ASW20 is really not enough, though it looks as if the 20
pilot did do something clever/lucky since he scored top marks

So... Does he get a better handicap when conditions aren't 'strong'? Or
does he just have to lose even more badly?

The BGA handicaps the 20 at 100. On that basis your handicap was over
112 and at that point you're the only 15m glider. All the others at
that level (110+) are 18m or wider.

You were robbed, Ian.

The BGA handicaps the 27 at 104. You need to start offering brown
envelopes to the scorer. Flying better won't get you anywhere.

GC