On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:37:40 +0000, Sam Giltner wrote:

Martin Gregorie:
Please expand on the handicap system that you use and the gliders
allowed in the Club Class and the Sports Class under this system.
Thanks, Sam

In summary: in the UK "Club Class" includes any glider in the IGC Club
Class list and any glider with a handicap of 98 or below on the BGA
handicaps table. See page 26 in

http://www.gliding.co.uk/forms/competitionrules2008.pdf

for the full, gory details and page 18 for adjustments if the glider is
modified with tiplets, root fairings, turbulators, etc.

As a concrete example of the Club/Sport split, the Discus 1a or 1b,
ASW-20 and ASW-20f all have a handicap of 98. All other Discus 1s and all
other ASW-20s have higher handicaps: the ASW-20b,c have 100. The lowest
assigned handicaps are the Falke (46) and Slingsby T-21 (50). The highest
is the ASW-22bl and Nimbus 4 (118). To apply the BGA handicap, multiply
the actual speed by 100 and divide by the handicap.


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