On Dec 26, 12:31*pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
JJ Sinclair wrote:
*I do like calling a
whole bunch of turns, so many that some wont be able to do them all
and will be forced to quit and head home when their time's up. Call it
JJ's AT, a way to *call an assigned task in sports class.
Happy, Happy
JJ

I don't fly contests anymore, but I would have enjoyed Sports Class a
lot more with JJ running it! I preferred AT much more than the Sports
Class "do your own thing" task, because DYOT is what I did when I wasn't
flying a contest. I liked contest flying much more when the AT was the
standard, because it was _different_ from my usual flying. Why put up
with the hassle and cost of a contest to do exactly what I always do?

Eventually (after 28 years), I quit contest flying because it was
interfering with my soaring.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA
* Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly


I, too, have not done any contest flying for the past few years. And I
liked
contests.

It seems to me that we should decide on what properties we would like
to reward, those we would least encourage, and those we would
penalize. Try this. Make a list.

money
risk tolerance
weather forecasting
weather assessment
flying skill
rule reading

I'd bet that rule reading would end up low on the reward list, but
ends up being
one of the primary requirements for contest success. Another would
probably
be money, low on reward list, primary for contest success. How about
risk?
Do we want to encourage this?

Dennis Brown LY