Performance World Class design proposal

LS4 Pah!

Isn't this whole thread down to LS-4 owners who a just
miffed that their beloved glider has only won two Worlds!

Couldn't hack it in Std class,

Can't hack it in club class,

Let's make a class just for them!!

OK so you can fly further & faster in an LS-4 than
a PW5, but do these flights have any more merit. NO!!

We have a monotype class.

Why would you buy a 'new' LS4 when you can buy a new
Discus CS for similar money, or a D2 for a little more?

The same arguments will always apply

;-)

At 12:24 27 August 2004, Andreas Maurer wrote:
The LS-4 is widely regared as one of the gliders with
the best
handling you can get. The sheer number of produced
LS-4 says it all.



Bye
Andreas

In article , Peter F
writes

snip

you can fly further & faster in an
XXX type glider
than
a
YYY type glider
, but do these flights have any more merit
??

You raise an interesting point.

Myself, I have always thought that, other things being equal (I know
that that is difficult!), further and/or faster in soaring flights was a
sort of a merit in its own right.

Such as, longer and/or further flights in glider XXX over YYY. Of
course, if XXX is in an IGC/FAI class of its own, records and other
performances can be claimed below those (at world level) in Open Class
or with other gliders of higher performance.

--
Ian Strachan
Lasham Gliding Centre, UK

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