500 foot rule and pilot opinion poll

Why are we constantly adding more rules to competition flying? It is
becoming more and more complicated. We cannot just add more and more
rules to deal with people's decision making all the time. Soaring is a
sport that requires decision-making and that is one of the big
challenges to the sport. I am opposed to more and more rules that
continue to add to the complexity of the sport.

Tim Hanke
Libelle 201B "H1"
Saratoga Springs, New York


Tim, you have said it all. Moffett said that you need to make a decision every
fifteen seconds, and that was without computers. Those were flight decisions,
now we must make a decision every fifteen seconds and spend the other fourteen
programming our flight computers.

Bruce Patton
96S