Analyzing US Competition Flights

At 13:09 14 March 2012, kirk.stant wrote:


Noun: A competition between runners, horses, vehicles, boats, etc.,
to see which is the fastest in covering a set course.

Verb: Compete with another or others to see who is fastest at
covering a set course or achieving an objective.



Not an English Major, obviously. Please read and attempt to comprehend
the
definition of a race, posted above for your edification.

It's actually you OLC guys who have hijacked the term "race"!

And now, back to your regular programming...

Kirk
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This is just a rehash of the same argument we had when the PST or POST was
used in racing. It really comes down to what you are measuring in a "Race".
In the AST we are measuring speed over distance and thermalling ability. In
a PST we add to that course choices, weather, and rules interpretation. I
had this argument with a National rated pilot and what we came up with is
that the same people won regardless of the task type. But some just don't
like racing in that way. Admittedly the easiest, while not being
necessarily the fairest would be to race a one class glider and do a AST,
no thinking just fly fast!

CH