Ahem, speaking of horses, what kind of meat do they put in those
patties anyway.

Agreed. Horse 0. Pilots 1.

In article ,
Andy Blackburn wrote:
Without arguing the merits -- the amount of time spent
posting on this topic, if applied to a job flipping
meat patties at Burger King, would have yielded enough
cash to buy an ELT. The issues were pretty clear from
the start. IMHO the horse is now dead.

9B

At 19:30 21 January 2005, Mark James Boyd wrote:
You will notice in all of this verbiage that there
is no
indication if the rule changes proposed by the
committee are mandatory, or subject to review and rejection
by the SSA membership as a whole.

From my reading, it seems that those soaring pilots
who are
NOT YET contest pilots have no voting input whatsoever
into the SRA process. So this process is slanted to
advantage
the opinions of current contest pilots, and relies
upon their evenhandedness and wisdom to ensure newly
entering pilots won't face increased barriers to competition.

Under the old system where it seems the SSA BOD was
the rules
making body, perhaps there was less expertise in
the rules, but a broader base of competition pilots
and
'potential' competition pilots was represented.
I don't see how this is now the case.

If you can point to me where the broader SSA membership
as a whole
has voting input into this process, I would be much
obliged. I could not find this after what is, with
my
apologies, a less familiar search of the documents
posted.

I do want to thank you for your response, however.
In none of
this is my desire to work outside of this system.
The
rules committee and the competition members who answer
polls
and participate apparently do this with NO compensation.
As pointed out before in a different post, no compensation
means
exactly what it sounds like. Volunteers do the very
best
they can, but they certainly can't be expected to watch
over
this stuff like a hawk.

This is why I'm considering the suggestion that a professional
be the final word on rule changes. A professional
with the
constituency of the entire SSA organization. I think
that
C. Dennis Wright whould have veto over these suggested
changes,
with his actions being reviewed by the SSA BOD, or
something along
those lines.

If this is already the case, please let me know. I
am
certain there are those more versed in the history
of
this process than I...

In article ,
Ken Kochanski (KK) wrote:
Just to correct your understanding of the SSA organizations
and
processes involved. This info is posted on the SSA
and SRA sites if
you bothered to research.

http://sailplane-racing.org/Rules/elect_process.htm

The SSA Competition Rules sub-Committee is a part of
the Contest
Committee. The chair of the Contest Committee is appointed
by the SSA
Board of Directors and serves as one of the five members
of the
sub-committee (usually referred to as the 'Rules Committee').
The
other four members are elected by the pilots on the
SSA Pilot Ranking
List via an electronic ballot conducted each summer.

Mark James Boyd wrote:
From the rule change summary, the mandatory installation
of ELTs
in all gliders at all SSA competitions is considered
a
'minor' change to the rules.

The Sailplane Racing Association, eh?

Not a terribly astute bunch of folks. Citing a

What do you call a committee that makes recommendations
which are directly against the desires of a strong
majority
of competition pilots? I'd call them disconnected
from
the desires of their constituents, at best. At worst,
I'm sure some of you have some more colorful ideas...

Who does this recommendation go to? Who do we contact
to
have this recommendation sent back to the committee
for
indefinite review, without implementation?

How do we replace the committee members who supported
this
rule? Is a 78% vote good enough to replace them after
thanking them
for their service?

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