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Old May 4th 04, 06:40 AM
Marcel Duenner
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CV wrote in message ...
Eric Greenwell wrote:
Why do we want to find out the "best" pilot?


It's in human nature to want to compete. In the genes, I guess.
CV



So let's compete! In several classes. That way everybody can compete
in a class according to the glider they have available. Throwing all
into one class and handicapping doesn't really do the job and
everybody knows that.

Most sports have different classes and nobody ever questions who is
the overall
"best" runner, car driver, skier, sailor,...

BTW I'd have no problem at all competing in a different glider every
day of a comp - as long as you provide the ten different gliders...

Regards
Marcel
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Old May 4th 04, 10:02 AM
iPilot
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You can cut that to:

Standard
15m
18m
Open
Club

And looking at the Standard class today, maybe you can cut that as well and fly it in Club class.
Provided that the objective is to cut classes.


"Nolaminar" wrote in message
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In the old days, we had a single National Champion.

Now we have:
World Class
Standard Class
Motorgliders
Two place
15 meter
18 meter
Club/Sports
Two Place
Open
etc.





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Old May 4th 04, 03:04 PM
John Seaborn
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Looking at the proliferation in classes from the international
prospective. The IGC/FAI has always added classes to accommodate
design advances, developing interest in types and to increase
opportunity and participation in the sport. Without getting overly
specific on the dates, new classes and thus national and world
championships have been added as follows:

1937 Open
1952* Two-place
1958 Standard
1978 15-Meter
1997 World
1999 Junior
2001 18-Meter
2001 Club/Sports
2001 Feminine

*Two Place removed in 1958

The case can be made that new classes are good for the sport. Now a
Junior pilot has the opportunity to become a World Champion as do Club
pilots, 18-Meter pilots and so on. As a member of the U.S. Team
Committee I can say that organizing and funding all these classes is a
real challenge. As for comparative performance, I suspect that if you
put the top five pilots in any of these classes together in similar
gliders you would find very few differences.

John

(Nolaminar) wrote in message ...
In the old days, we had a single National Champion.

Now we have:
World Class
Standard Class
Motorgliders
Two place
15 meter
18 meter
Club/Sports
Two Place
Open
etc.

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Old May 7th 04, 03:53 AM
Alan Meyer
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"Nolaminar" wrote in message
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In the old days, we had a single National Champion.

Now we have:
World Class
Standard Class
Motorgliders
Two place
15 meter
18 meter
Club/Sports
Two Place
Open
etc.


I think it's kind of nice that we have so many champions.

For comparison, look at the chess world. At any given time
there may be a couple of dozen astoundingly good chess players,
any of whom, on a good day, could win a game (though not
all the games) against the champ. But they get no respect.

We, on the other hand, give respect to 10 or more
astoundingly good pilots.

Alan


 




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