(Jonathan Gere) wrote in message . com...
I suggest John Cochrane, the ASA, and the rules committee study the
2003 15m Nationals logs carefully.


Excellent post.

I suggest that everybody study the rules used at the Worlds,
especially for speed tasks: Start line (1600 meters or so height, 10
km wide), no altitude limit before. 500m radius turnpoints. 1 km
finish line, no altitude limit.

Treat pilots like adults and most will behave like adults. A few
won't. I really don't care about them - they are hopeless anyway.

Interestingly, there was apparently a lot of complaining about all the
AATs (our TATs) that were called - the pilots were getting really
tired of them and wanted to get back to real racing.

What a surprise.

TATs should ONLY be called if there is no alternative - if the weather
is so unpredictable that an AST cannot be safely called. Period.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is a ******!

Kirk 66
Flew a 309 mile 3:30 TAT yesterday at 86 mph and 3:35. Great AZ
desert conditions. TS1 beat me at 87 mph and 316 miles and 3:39.

But I would have preferred an AST!