Tim

LS8 and D2 and ASW28 are already withing the handicap range of US club and ON the club class list.(they are slightly *worse* (dry) than an ASW20 which IS on the IGC list) and you arent trying to throw ASW20s out are you? ASW24's and D1's are also OK and also only just below the ASW20 handicap.

Stick with the handicap range of the IGC list and LS8/D2 are still within the range - V1 and LS6 are a different matter - but the horse has already bolted years go on that one (before my time)

Club gets stuck with the biggest range of handicaps because it must *by definition* include the widest range of gliders.

2T

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:56:21 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:10:24 PM UTC-5, John Cochrane wrote:

SNIPModern standard will be part of club. SNIP

John:



Why, exactly, WILL (my emphasis) Modern Standard be part of Club Class?



Your statement seems to make this a non-negotiable point.



If the point if making handicapped racing better racing by reducing the spread of handicaps, why must Club get stuck with the biggest, and arguably semi-unworkable, handicap range, while the folding into 15m of Modern Standard and Last Generation 15m is not on the table.



The handicap range between current 15m gliders and Modern Standard (plus the last generation of 15m) is surely much more tight than the handicap range between modern standard (and last generation 15m) and the Libelle - let alone the upper limit of, say, a 1-26, as written into the US Club Class definition today



If we go to handicapped racing as the main experience in sailplane racing, we need to make it work so that everyone has or feels like they are getting the best racing experience possible. This si done by narrowing, not broadening the handicap ranges.



Tim EY