Those who achieve the minimum
distance appear the next morning at the pilots' meeting. Each has 3
minutes to describe his/her flight.

That would be your kind of a task, Chris. After watching your safety talk at
the Nationals this year, my money's on you.

Seriously though, the sports Class started with a *Blue Book* that contained
specific triangles, ranging in distance from 50 miles to 400 miles. The CD
would announce the minimum distance that the scratch ship (Cirrus) must fly,
lets say 150 miles. The CD would then sid down, his tasking duties being
completed. Each competitor would divide his handicap factor into the scratch
distance and come up with a minimum distance that he must fly that day. then he
(or she) would turn to the page in the blue book that showed a triangle at
least as long as his minimum required. It was a hoot, don't like the minimum,
you got to fly farther to get something you do like. No flying 11 close-in turn
points. The grid was alive with, "Which one are you flying?" and again after
landing, "Mono Lake was dead, so I had to fly Basalt- Hawthorne". It was a real
test of flying ability and a bit of, can you think and fly at the same time?

Oh, the good old days. I think we could do some creative thinking along those
lines. Just limit the number of turn points to say 3 or 4, then announce a
minimum distance and let the fir fly. As the rules now stand, there is seldom
any advantge in going over 50 miles away from home and good reason not to.
:)
JJ Sinclair