Mark Brown wrote:
Ok im really bored and I thoguht i would open a can
of worms..has Standard Class Design reached a plateau?
and if so where do we go from here

Well I guess it means that pilots will have to learn some decent amount of
skill instead buying a better glider to improve their results. Of course
there's always the latest version of the PDA flight director software to
tell you when to push/pull/bank/go there/at that speed/or whatever, etc...

One pilot over here followed his PDA during a competition final glide even
to the point of hitting a tree. The logical answer to that one was that he
hadn't programmed the location of the tree into the map drawing software.

Rgds,

Derrick.