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Tim......well said, and you should all take note that Tim recently won
Sports Nationals in a true Sports glider........the Libelle!!! Brian "Tim" wrote in message ups.com... You make one of my main points perfectly. If we want to EDUCATE new, aspiring racing pilots, Sports Class is terrific. Go ahead and hang your shingle out there - Even in an HP-14 - which by the way was my first ship. You will learn more about flying for performance and glider handling in one week of oragnized contest flying than you will in many, many years of flying around the patch or with friends, even if you are at the bottom of the score sheet. If we want to teach new, aspiring racing pilots how to COMPETE and RACE FOR A WIN, then Sports Class fails. You can only learn to compete and race when you are in situations of rough equality - pilot skill and equipment. Sports Class handicaps do not offer that rough equality to a broad enough range of older gliders at present. If aspiring Club Class pilots and those owning Club Class gliders think the Sports Class handicaps are going to come to them are dreaming. When the base-line Sports Class ship at your average Sports Nats becomes a V2 - who do think will suffer when it comes time to "tweak" the handicaps for better competition? Keep the faith, if you really love to compete, take you HP to a sports class contest and learn the skills for competing and soak in the ambience; then, if you really are hooked on racing gliders to win, join the bandwagon to get a class that encompasses the older, increasingly dispossessed ships -we could use the support. Tim McAllister "EY" Std. Libelle |
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JJ.....
I think you will agree that it was an overall good contest though, and very nice country. I for one was very impressed with the area, and I did not even fly in it!!! Bye the way.....my kids loved the pictures of you motorhome mural that I took, now they want one......Thanks a lot!!!!!!!! wrote in message oups.com... Tim Mara wrote: not necessarily.......it may just mean that the 50 you eliminated will be replaced with the 50 who don't waste their time and money to be fodder for the 50 with the latest and greatest ships.... That just aint so, Tim. I wish it were true, but we don't have people wishing to race and unable to get in. Look at last years Parowan regionals. They got only 19 total in sports and *Reverse Seeding* was in affect, so as many as wanted could have entered, without any seeding (not on the list = top of the entry list) Another thing, if your proposal was in effect only 8 of the 19 would have been allowed in. Look at Air Sailing all sports regionals, they can only gin up 5 or 6 total and they offer thermaiing camps and cross country camps ahead of the sports contest. It's a sign of the times, we aint getting the new blood into the sport, much less into racing. Thanks for the offer to fly an old wooden thing, I actually thought about entering my Bowlus Super Albatross in Parowan, then I remembered what it didn't have, oxygen, radio, 2- GPS's, computer. Then I remembered the last day, last year, 100 mile final glide over hostle territory and I asked myself, "Do you really want to do that in a Bowlus?" Myself said, "NO". JJ |
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