Contest Class Development for Future Success - The Case fordeveloping the Handicapped Classes

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 3:18:11 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 12:04:59 PM UTC-7, wrote:



We probably need to discuss whether the objective is to limit the handicap range for more head to head racing or limit the range of pilots flying in Club Class.



If the objective is the first then the most productive thing to do is limit the low end of the performance range which really drags down tasking and is where almost all the spread in handicap is. If the objective is to exclude talented pilots then keep the modern standard class gliders out - there are a lot of very good pilots with no place to race right now. The facts don't support that those gliders should be excluded based on technical performance without ballast - quite the contrary. Data people - look at the data..



I expect IGC will include these ships in pretty short order so that may not be a good place to hang one's hat either.

I was not suggesting removing the "current" Std ships that are in the range.. I was commenting that I don't think they are advantaged.
I was suggesting cutting off the low performance end, probably at 1.02(Std Libelle) or so to try to make AT tasking reasonable, which it is not under the current "temporary" arrangement where Club has been co-located with Sports while it grew into viability.
Hopefully talented pilots will want to fly all the classes we have.
UH