5Z,

My bad on terminology. It'd been better if I said Goal and "Free" O&R,
which I think does work. However, I don't think that the two can be
claimed in the same class (15, standard, etc) with the current rules.

You make your Goal and the Free O&R is claimed after the flight if you
make it back home.

If you set a flight to a Goal, then made it back to the start, I don't
see anything wrong with picking up Straight to a Goal, Free O&R, 3TP
distance, and maybe an altitude gain in the same flight as long as the
soaring performance(s) exceed the current records by the require amount.

I know some people don't like more than one record to be claimed per
flight, but I personally liked it better when you could claim anything
your flight qualified you for. Why shouldn't it????

Perhaps someone from the rules committee can shed some light on the
background as to how this came to be?

Gary