In article , Peter F
writes

snip

you can fly further & faster in an
XXX type glider
than
a
YYY type glider
, but do these flights have any more merit
??

You raise an interesting point.

Myself, I have always thought that, other things being equal (I know
that that is difficult!), further and/or faster in soaring flights was a
sort of a merit in its own right.

Such as, longer and/or further flights in glider XXX over YYY. Of
course, if XXX is in an IGC/FAI class of its own, records and other
performances can be claimed below those (at world level) in Open Class
or with other gliders of higher performance.

--
Ian Strachan
Lasham Gliding Centre, UK

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