I agree with BB. I've been flying U.S. contests for over 35 years, with
many tasks of both types: i.e., set and forget vs. change in the air.
It's like life (a series of compromises). Or lawyers (on the one
hand...but on the other hand...).

My strong preference: let the CD change the task in the air to
accommodate the actual conditions so long as he/she provides enough
time to reprogram the computer(s) and refold the map. Yes, I admit I
still carry one--you gotta problem with that?

But this is yet another reason that every contest pilot MUST be
intimately familiar with his/her flight computers. In the haze at the
top of a crowded gaggle in 1 kt. lift at 3,000 ft. is no place to be
exploring how to change from an assigned task to an area task, or how
to make a skinny triangle out of a big quadrilateral by removing the
second TP.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"