On Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:51:33 PM UTC-5, John Cochrane wrote:
On Jan 17, 10:49*am, ASM wrote:

Hi John,



Let me reverse the idea he is it possible to propose to the IGC to adopt the US SSA rules? In that case we could fly worldwide under the same rules and all the issues would go away. Jacek, Pasco, WA



We can propose all we want, and many have. So far, no luck. Ken

Sorenson and John Good were unable to get the IGC to accept our start

procedure at Uvalde, resulting in a few starts where some competitors

got up in thermal wave and others didn't.



John Cochrane

I heard that there was a massive protest over start altitude limits during the practice (re, "training") period in Uvalde and the result was this nutty unlimited start. But I can't recall that I ever heard *why* there was an objection to an altitude limit.

T8