All US Records are Now Motor Glider Records

On 3/13/2017 8:55 AM, Tango Eight wrote:
On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 10:46:52 AM UTC-4, Tony wrote:
Sort of hard to self launch if the motor is disabled.

Records should be about the soaring performance not the launch method.
Records should showcase the greatest possible achievement period, not the
greatest possible achievement from an airport with a towplane.

Does it make sense for a Silent or a Russia AC-5M to be competing in the
same record category as an EB-29?

World Records must first be certified as National Records. Under the old
system it was very possible to fly a world record performance in a
motorglider and not be able to claim it, thanks to our rules not aligning
with the FAI's.

You guys are missing the point.

Us pure glider guys don't give a darned what records are kept for motor
gliders. Knock yourselves out, have as many MG classes as you want. It's
a ***different game***. If you can't see that, please just take my word
for it (I am not alone). We want the sailplane records to remain sailplane
records, that is all.

best regards, Evan Ludeman / T8


"What Evan just explicitly said."

Dinosaurs still roam the earth, despite - if this isn't an early April 1 joke
or fake news - IGC's alleged stance. Failing to recognize their presence seems
a pretty good way of helping extinguish them.

Pretending there aren't fundamental (*significant* - e.g.
out-of-pocket/maintenance/etc.) cost(s) to the purchaser, and acting as if all
the other differences between unpowered dinosaurs, and powered and potentially
just-as-endangered soaring-capable dinosaurs - and the nuts holding their
sticks! - is: dismissive; arguably disrespectful to a goodly proportion of
people who make the IGC even possible; a bureaucratic way of "solving" a
self-generated "problem."

IGC needs to reconsider this issue, IMO.

Respectfully,
Bob W.