2005 Junior Worlds Accident

Having fun by risking one own's life is a personal choice.
Having fun by risking other peoples' life is criminal.

Bert
who likes to do worm burners, but in an controlable setting

"Dave K" wrote in message
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Indeed, but a serious competitor would always subordinate "fun" to
"efficiency",

True, but one thing we are missing is that this is a JUNIOR championship.
These are young people and FUN does come higher for the majority - I say
this having crewed at several UK juniors for top competitors. For top
pilots efficiency was top of the list until they knew they could get
back - then the fun element hit the top of the list. For lesser mortals
it's a fun event surrounded by similar thinking young people. This
changed when I crewed for the same pilots at full nationals - the
atmosphere was different as they were surrounded by more experienced
competition pilots.

Face it - gliding is fun, if it weren't we wouldn't do it. That's why we
don't fly powered.

Dave Kearns

PS these were RAFGSA pilots!!