On May 20, 11:33*am, "kirk.stant" wrote:
Jim,

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Final word on my contest philosophy - I go to races in order to fly, I
don't fly gliders in order to race. *The structure and challenge of
the contest environment enhances the pleasure of the flying by giving
it purpose - and if I do good, that's fun too.

Cheers,

Kirk
66

Exactly, I go to a contest because I can take a week off of work and
go someplace that has excellent flying conditions and fly 5 or 6 days
in a row. Plus I usually have a crew arranged to come get me so I can
be a bit less conservative in how I fly knowing that I have a specific
goal in mind and the retrieve is already arranged it it doesn't work
out.

Brian
HP16T