USA Double Seater Contest

At 20:30 22 January 2004, Thomas Knauff wrote:
The 'Double Seater Class' is extremely popular in Europe
and it is planned to follow their concept.

Open class gliders have their class, and there is no
practical way for smaller gliders to be competitive
against them.

Tom,

I would take issue with this last statement, the UK
Two Seater Competition run by the Wold Glding Club
club accepts entries from any 2 two seater.

The innovative task setting and handicapped scoring
allows gliders of very wide handicaps to compete against
each other.

A low handicap glider completing a medium size task
makes sure the pilots of the high handicaps gliders
work even harder.

It is amazing what some of the pilots can and do produce.

Allowing all two seat gliders to compete also allows
those of more modest means to take part. If necessary
split the field into two. If you start by allowing
them all to enter, see what the take up is and then
decide in following years how to progress.

In the end I suppose it depends on what you want from
the competition.

Dave