OK, it's really simple. Clear your mind and listen closely.

On Friday, May 3, 2013 9:17:26 AM UTC-6, wrote:
"Motorgliders" are airplanes. Got it??



Rick Lake

Just to upscrew this chain of thought, since UH has put the cap on its former modestly coherent direction, what about handicaps and two seaters, especially when flown by two decently skilled pilots? Don't they have serious advantages over the rest of us, who fly all alone ....?
HL
PS: Those who are giving rides and making serious donations to US team funds are clearly exempt from all such seditious thinking.

On Friday, May 3, 2013 3:31:49 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Friday, May 3, 2013 9:17:26 AM UTC-6, wrote: "Motorgliders" are airplanes. Got it?? Rick Lake Just to upscrew this chain of thought, since UH has put the cap on its former modestly coherent direction, what about handicaps and two seaters, especially when flown by two decently skilled pilots? Don't they have serious advantages over the rest of us, who fly all alone ....? HL PS: Those who are giving rides and making serious donations to US team funds are clearly exempt from all such seditious thinking.

as i told someone a few weeks ago, your opinion on the fairness of a handicap has everything to do with what you are flying and what you are getting beaten by.

On Friday, May 3, 2013 2:06:03 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Wow Steve, with that kind of profound insight I'm guessing you do work for the FAA.

No, I work for a company that is affected by everything the FAA does. Airplane and aircraft are not interchangable words in the world of regulations.

On 5/3/2013 11:13 AM, kirk.stant wrote:
But isn't the whole argument about racing/competition?

I believe the original poster was concerned only with the OLC. That's a
much different situation than racing competition, where the gliders are
flown at the same time in the same place.

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"I believe the original poster was concerned only with the OLC"

Ah. That explains everything. How could I have failed to divine what he was saying after reading that in depth and well argued first post of his?

So I guess he's miffed about pilots using the "safety reserve" intrinsic in a motorglider to perform flights that would be too risky in a pure glider (eyes rolling) and thus getting high OLC scores and reveling in the lucrative prize money and adoring attentions of vast numbers of beautiful women that comes with being at the top of the OLC?

If a motorglider was an aeroplane I wouldn't be able to fly one on the authority of my glider pilot's license. My license would let me fly one, only my income prevents it :-)

...... and thus getting high OLC scores and reveling in the lucrative
prize money and adoring attentions of vast numbers of beautiful women
that comes with being at the top of the OLC?


Wait.... no prize money?? What about "Fame and Glory"?