Limited Handicapping Authorized for 2012 USA Standard Class Nationals

On Feb 15, 9:35*pm, "John Godfrey (QT)"
wrote:
The USA Competition Committee has issued a waiver for the 2012
Standard Class National contest that authorizes a limited use of
handicaps. The waiver and specifics can be found athttp://www.ssa.org/files/member/Waiver%20for%202012%20Standard%20Clas...

Hmm, I just read the waiver, and the maximum handicap allowed is 3.5%,
considerably more than the 2% handicap for standard class over 15m
under the old 'combined std/15m class rules for regionals. Not that
we should notice the 5000lb elephant in the room, but doesn't that
kind of indicate that it is time to simply fold the standard class
into the 15m class, with a 2-3% handicap?

TA

I'm just waiting for the participation issue to get so bad that they
expand the allowable handicap range to about...1.543 Then I can
design a new wing for the Cherokee. 13.5 m with 15 meter tips sounds
good, right? In all seriousness I like this idea. If I had even a 1.0-
ish handicap ship I'd probably go to the contest based on this.
Hopefully it helps participation.

On Feb 17, 2:32*pm, Tony wrote:
I'm just waiting for the participation issue to get so bad that they
expand the allowable handicap range to about...1.543 *Then I can
design a new wing for the Cherokee. 13.5 m with 15 meter tips sounds
good, right? *In all seriousness I like this idea. If I had even a 1.0-
ish handicap ship I'd probably go to the contest based on this.
Hopefully it helps participation.

The interesting new place for the cherokee is in the 13.5 handicapped
class. Which hopefully will evolve into a handicapped class for all
gliders, i.e. including KA6, L33, ASK21, etc. There will be a 13.5
super regional in texas this summer Tony....

John Cochrane

The interesting new place for the cherokee is in the 13.5 handicapped
class. Which hopefully will evolve into a handicapped class for all
gliders, i.e. including KA6, L33, ASK21, etc. There will be a 13.5
super regional in texas this summer Tony....

John Cochrane

I was the first to sign up very much looking forward to the contest.