Announcement: no USA FLARM-related rules changes for 2016

Simplicity: Our equipment restrictions are more and more complex, and less and less enforced every year. (For fun, take a look at the rules regarding disabling of artificial horizon modules. That, to my knowledge, nobody has ever even tried to implement.)


I agree with John. In addition, somewhere down the line the Rules Committee needs to modify rules to ease the burden on the CD and CM to run a contest (and bypass pilot input). We have a pletheora of rules that can be ignored by the pilot simply because the workload and complexity of running a contest can't be handled effectively by normal contest staffing. The SSA response to managment is to "toss another body in to cover that" is NOT acceptable.. We all know that trying to find volunteers to help run a contest is getting harder and harder. Several past CM's have told me they are very reluctant to ever work a contest again because of these issues.
We see daily on RAS pilots demanding rule changes that will improve their enjoyment at contests. Let's keep our eye on the ball here. No contest management and volunteers results in no contests. RC needs to clean up the current rules to make them reasonable and enforceable by a modest number of contest staff.
Craig

Flarm has enabled me to see just how fast and far the good guys get away from me. For some reason, I don't seem to be getting any faster! Perhaps skill does count for something?

Mike