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On Dec 26, 12:31*pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
JJ Sinclair wrote: *I do like calling a whole bunch of turns, so many that some wont be able to do them all and will be forced to quit and head home when their time's up. Call it JJ's AT, a way to *call an assigned task in sports class. Happy, Happy JJ I don't fly contests anymore, but I would have enjoyed Sports Class a lot more with JJ running it! I preferred AT much more than the Sports Class "do your own thing" task, because DYOT is what I did when I wasn't flying a contest. I liked contest flying much more when the AT was the standard, because it was _different_ from my usual flying. Why put up with the hassle and cost of a contest to do exactly what I always do? Eventually (after 28 years), I quit contest flying because it was interfering with my soaring. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA * Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly I, too, have not done any contest flying for the past few years. And I liked contests. It seems to me that we should decide on what properties we would like to reward, those we would least encourage, and those we would penalize. Try this. Make a list. money risk tolerance weather forecasting weather assessment flying skill rule reading I'd bet that rule reading would end up low on the reward list, but ends up being one of the primary requirements for contest success. Another would probably be money, low on reward list, primary for contest success. How about risk? Do we want to encourage this? Dennis Brown LY |
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