Jim White wrote:

I've been following the thread for a while and a common theme seems to be
that 'organising a comp is difficult and a huge effort'. I am surprised
by this. In the UK pretty much every soaring club runs a annual comp to
BGA rules thereby qualifying their pilots for rating points which are used
for prioritising entry to Nationals comps which are run in FAI classes.

Eh? Pretty much every club? In my time I have flown regularly at
(counts on fingers) six UK gliding clubs of various sizes. Of these
only the second largest - Yorkshire GC - ran an annual competation,
and that was the northern regionals so not really a club competition
at all.

The bottom line is that, if comps are kept simple to run then every club
can have one and all pilots can experience a comp on their doorstep and
learn the trade.

I wonder what proportion of UK pilots are interested in competition.
I'd be surprised if it was as high as 10% of Silver Cs...

Ian