500 foot rule and pilot opinion poll

At 05:54 30 September 2003, Gary Ittner wrote:

You obviously think that it is unfair for the landout
to be penalized so severely, but have you considered
that reducing or eliminating the landout penalty might
be unfair to the pilots who do whatever it takes to
finish the task? And doing 'whatever it takes' usually
does not mean risk-taking, but the antithesis of risk-taking

Gary, Yes I think it is unfair to penalize the landout
so severely. but doing 'whatever it takes' is exactly
that 'What ever it takes takes' and inherently will
be as much dangerous as it will be throttle back and
go around. And nothing in the way of rules will change
that. But the question then is. Is that unfair to
those pilots? I don't think so! It still becomes a
pilots choice to do either. They will still score more
than those that don't think that way. However. consider
this if making it back is as important as you seem
to feel it is, in terms of competing, then why aren't
the rules written so that NO score is given for a landout?
Why? Because until recently it was almost impossible
to score fairly for the distance AND time. With the
flight loggers and computers available now this could
become a reality. I realize that you will never be
happy with that, and maybe nobody else will be either.
And in that case it probably won't happen. But I for
one would like to try it!

I do agree with you about having the right attitude
about learning after being out of contention in a contest.
And learning from that experiance. No changes in scoring
would change that. 'Attitude is everything' and 'Change
is inevitable' One of these you can do something about
the other you can't!

Cliff Hilty Ventus B

What's the record for the longest thread in this newsgroup?

Since the 8th Sept there's been about 180 postings
on the subject of ballasted pullups!

At 12:00 02 October 2003, Pat Russell wrote:
What's the record for the longest thread in this newsgroup?