At 20:05 17 August 2015, Dan Stroschine wrote:
Speaking as a pre-solo student with aspirations of doing XC I love the
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of creating at least a couple of levels. I don't know if we'd have
enough
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contestants to fill six at my club, but at least a couple would work.=20

At our club there are some accomplished XC pilots that are incredibly
nice
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and giving with knowledge. But the idea of 'competing' with them on a
task
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that is designed to be challenging to them is quite intimidating. Of
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I wouldn't expect to be at or close the bottom but if I don't have the
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erience I might not have a good idea as to my (or my planes) limits so
the
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chances of me landing out trying because I thought I could make it would
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crease a lot.=20

It would be great to have a task that would challenge me (and other
inexper=
ienced XC'ers) without making it too easy for the competent ones. This
coul=
d be a subset of turn points that make up a larger task. The more
experienc=
ed groups progressively have more turn points/areas...

just my 0.5c

Dan

This is exactly what handicap distance tasks where designed to, and do,
achieve