At 19:20 14 February 2009, kirk.stant wrote:
On Feb 14, 3:03=A0am, "noel.wade" wrote:
Argh!

Experienced DG-300 pilots, hear me out: =A0Stop flying so well! =A0I
get
ready to enter my first contest this year, and what happens? They bump
the DG-300 up to the same handicap as the LS-4! :-P

When I bought my '300, everyone swore that the DG's "dont fly well
in
races like the LS ships do" - or that the DG-300 "is a touring
glider
while the LS-4 is the thoroughbred"... =A0I was _counting_ on a
softer
handicap to make my rookie contest debut look better; and now its been
ruined! =A0Since I believe the folks making the handicaps base their
decisions on real-world data, the blame falls squarely on you DG-300
who did well the last couple of years... darn you! ;-)

Take care,

--Noel

Noel,

Just go to the contest and fly - don't even worry about the handicap!
Seriously, the differences are so small that a couple of extra turns
at the top of a thermal make more difference! It's all about the
pilot, not the glider.

Kirk
66

Kirk,
Still, I do not understand why they have not put a list together
with a relative narrow range of handicaped gliders, now that they have the
first offical Club Class contest.
Udo