Canadian contests & SSA ranking points

Awesome news!

On Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:17:59 AM UTC-4, wrote:
We had a quick chat on the Canadian side of the equation about this.

The Canadian Nats would have to be sanctioned by the SSA (pay the

contest fee and possible other issues). Each contest pilot (at the very

least the ones to get seeding) would need to be SSA members. This is

assuming that the SSA would even consider sanctioning this event by

waiver or something along those lines and that the Soaring Association

of Canada would agree. The additional cost of a SSA fee would have to

be passed on to the pilots, while some of us who care about US seeding

points wouldn't necessarily be bothered by this, the financial impact

could drive down participation from pilots who are not interested in SSA

seeding points. To be honest I think the ball is in our court and not

the US/SSA.



Cheers,

Luke Szczepaniak



Luke: These all seem like issues that can be overcome. A unified north american contest scene makes a lot of sense to me. If there is serious interest, the head of Canadian contest committee should talk to the SSA contest chair (Ken Sorenson) and get the ball rolling.



John Cochrane