2005 SSA Handicaps Posted

"hannu" wrote in message ...
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1. Too long glide (for more-handicapped glider), I go to a field,
others get
average speed
2. (Mr. Cochrane With lesser performance, I have to use weaker
lifts, less
average speed as compared to flying the same McCready performance
ratio
3. If clearly less performance, others fly together, me alone - almost
fatal
in blue days and severely affects also in others.

To compensate the unfairness:

4. Rain wall, tough upper cloud or equivalent on the task: I win,
because
everybody stops on the (almost) same spot.
This evaluation is based both flying in (last 5 years) and scoring the
gliding competitions (last 10 years). Maybe the handicap system works better
when each pilot flies alone.




That is exactly what the handicap factors are based on: It takes in to
account the performance of the glider type, flown alone, in
homogeneous weather. Your 1.-4. simply can't be compensated
mathematically.

regards
Marcel