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Old January 19th 14, 08:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Sean F (F2)
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Default Encouraging participation in Handicap Competition

Jim,

May I suggest posting your video's to YouTube or Vimeo?

I went to watch your videos and was required to install a DIVX or other similar CODEC software for my browser to view them. This was a 350 MB install and pages of legal agreements, etc. It tried to change my default search to BING and was full of advertisements and other attempt to sell me products and services.

After 3 minutes of dealing with that, I decided I had other things to do and cancelled the process. I was therefore unable to watch your video's.

Let me know if you post to an easy to consume video website as I would love to see what you have been up to.

Sincerely,

Sean

On Friday, January 17, 2014 10:05:52 AM UTC-5, Jim White wrote:
In the UK a small team has been developing a new task type for club and

competition use.



We call it a Handicap Distance Task and its purpose is to overcome the

problems associated with setting tasks suitable for a wide range of

handicaps whereby high handicap gliders finish early and low handicap

gliders land out! We believe this discourages pilots to enter.



We apply handicaps to the task, not the results, resulting in a fairer

competition where the quickest round the task is the winner.



We have developed some software to facilitate the setting of Handicap Tasks

and the scoring of them in See You and I invite you to take a look. It is

free to use and we are keen to help clubs adopt the idea worldwide.



Please go to www.boffins.co.uk/gliding and take a look at the videos,

software, and documentation that we have produced.



Jim