US Rules Committee to ban XC Soar in US soaring competitioneffective immediately? - Ahh the "genius!"

Classy Todd! :-)

On Mar 2, 12:52*pm, toad wrote:
On Mar 2, 9:59*am, Gregg Leslie wrote:

I for one am tired of the endless rules associated with contests...Why
can't
we just keep it simple? As a contest pilot I have never thought about
cheating, or have I ever suspected any competitors of cheating, let's keep
it
simple, we are all a family, no more changes....Please....

GL

But, but, but, * if someone cheats, they'll get all the hot chicks and
sponsorship money ... oh wait, there aren't any. ( well, there's a few
hot chicks, but no money )

Please keep the rules simple and enforceable, since it is currently
impossible to prevent a pilot from showing up with an attitude gyro in
his pocket today, that rule is just not enforceable and should be
scrapped. *keep the ban on cloud flying, that's fine and will be
enforced the same way other rules are enforced, self policing.

The cost to sailplane racing of cheating by cloud flying seems prettly
damn low compared to the cost of trying to prevent any pilot from
having an attitude gyro available to him with today's technology.

To Sean Fidler, don't take my statements as support. *You might be a
nice guy in real life, but you are an ass on the internet.

Todd Smith
3S

I am confused by this whole controversy. As I understand it, the
issue is, artificial horizons would enable a pilot to cheat by flying
in clouds, and there's no way to detect it, so they must be banned.
However, even without an artificial horizon, a pilot can still fly say
100ft below cloud base, which is also against regulations and cannot
be detected. So, the only way really make sure nobody is cheating is
to ban contest flying on days when there are clouds expected. Problem
solved!