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Good idea, if you want to limit sailplane racing to people with the
money to buy 4 gliders like you (or maybe that is your goal?). The problem is that you'd need a different glider for every contest site. Longer wingspan/lower wingloading in the east with shorter span/higher loading out west. Thousands of variations in between meaning that you'd probably need a new glider every year to be competitive based on expected conditions at the contest site and new developements by designers within your formula. Oh yah, you better get a second glider too so you'll be competitve in that regional back east, and a third glider for Mifflin. Now theres a tough one, should you go to mifflin with a lead sled expecting 3-4 ridge days or a light wingloading glider expecting weak conditiond. Oh, and get another one for Tonopah and Uvlade. Your idea turns gliding competition into a crap shoot of who shows up with the right glider. |
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Quote: The bottom line is nearly always "It's the pilot stupid"
And isnt that the point? |
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So, if these classes were suddenly instituted tomorrow, would you compete in them? Bob K. Well if I suddenly obtained a bunch of spare time in the summer, and the desire to spend it driving...and possibly sitting at the airport. And won the lotto so I could afford a competitive ship in one of those classes. And became skilled enough to not finish dead last. |
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Good idea, if you want to limit sailplane racing to people with the
money to buy 4 gliders like you (or maybe that is your goal?). yah, and how many sailplane pilots out there have a hard time affording 1 glider? Brad |
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Earlier, Stewart Kissel
wrote: ...And became skilled enough to not finish dead last. Hey, don't knock it till you've tried it. One year at the Air Sailing I finished the contest with 15 points, and that was with launching every day save one. I swear, that last was so dead I was expecting to see the CSI team and a bunch of yellow crime scene tape at the awards dinner. I still had a pretty good time. The thing that got me onto the grid in the first place was realizing that it didn't really matter if I had a hot ship or understood the rules completely or comprehended all the subtleties of 1000-point POST scoring. What was important was that I fly safely and have a good time while I figured it out on a one-week soaring-only vacation. After about the third contest I was out there playing it with the big boys and girls, and it didn't cost me no five-eigths mil, neither. I just run what I brung as hard as I felt safe. Thanks, and best regards to all Bob K. http://www.hpaircraft.com |
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Pat Russell wrote:
Now I want to suggest that, in my humble opinion, the way the classes are currently set up by the SSA don't make any sense. In fact the classes are set up by FAI. If the SSA did it, they would probably make even less sense. In fact, the USA classes are set by the SSA. We can have any kind of classes that we want. For the last few decades, the SSA has chosen FAI classes (with a wing-loaing modification for the Standard class), plus it's own invention, the very popular Sports Class. A little more respect, please! -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA |
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OscarCVox wrote:
Why does the US have different classes to the rest of the world? OK I know std, 15m and Open are all the same, but US has a Sport class wheras the rest of the world has the Club class. I dont believe that there is a 18m class in the US either. Please correct me if I am wrong. There is an 18 meter class in the USA, the FAI 18 meter. The 18 Meter Nationals will be at Montague, California, in 2005. I don't know of any Regional 18 M class being scheduled. -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA |
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Eric Greenwell wrote:
There is an 18 meter class in the USA, the FAI 18 meter. The 18 Meter Nationals will be at Montague, California, in 2005. I don't know of any Regional 18 M class being scheduled. We had a successful (7 total, 4 motorgliders) 18M class in the Region 11 FAI contest at Minden last year, and we'll likely do it again next year. Marc |
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Funny attitude.
How the hell would you know if you had learnt anything? Whats your "pass grade" so you would know you would not finish dead last? I entered contests in a poorly performing glider. Makes you work harder to get around and you learn alot faster then if you have a higher glide angle. "Stewart Kissel" wrote in message ... So, if these classes were suddenly instituted tomorrow, would you compete in them? Bob K. Well if I suddenly obtained a bunch of spare time in the summer, and the desire to spend it driving...and possibly sitting at the airport. And won the lotto so I could afford a competitive ship in one of those classes. And became skilled enough to not finish dead last. |
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