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Old August 6th 07, 07:55 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Question for you contest fliers...

On Aug 6, 1:23 pm, "kirk.stant" wrote:

Funny, how straight speed tasks, that only require a simple GPS to
complete, are not used in Sports class - instead the emphasis is on
time-limited tasks that really require some serious computational
hardware and software to be competitive...


Of course the "bring what you own" US sports class prevents good
competition
on straight speed tasks. Perhaps if a sailplane had been chosen for
the world class,
instead of a streamlined brick, we could have good head to head races
for cheap :-)

Todd Smith
3S