Contest Class Development for Future Success - The Case fordeveloping the Handicapped Classes

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