Bill Daniels wrote:
I susspect that anything as obvious as the following has been thought of and
rejected for equally obvious reasons that I'm also not aware of.

Anyway, here goes....

Why not adjust turn area tasks so that turn area diameters are porportional
to a competitors handicap - i.e. small diameter turn areas for high
performance gliders and huge ones for low performance gliders? This would
force the high performance gliders to fly much farther than the low
performance ones to get credit for turnpoints. The idea is a sort of an
elastic "one size fits all" approach to task calling. Of course, this might
require complete rejiggering of an already complex scoring system.

Bill Daniels

Bill- The flaw in your logic is the assumption that we only fly to the
turn area and not beyond.
With cylinders now up to 30 mile radius there is plenty of flexibility
to cover the likely range of handicaps. The guide to the rules puts the
nominal task length at one doable for gliders in the mid range(ie "club
class"). With this guidance a task is set which should be doable by the
lower performance gliders but yet forces the higher performance gliders
to go farther to the outside of the cylinder. They have less choice of
where they can go than the lower performance gliders and are therefore
at a bit of a disadvantage.
The strategy for the lower performance guys is to cherry pick the best
parts and laugh at the saps in the high performance ships as they are
forced to fly out into the weaker weather. Dave Stevenson has been
doing this for years.
Cheers UH