I thought Mike was building the cheating device to beat all other cheating devices
> On 29 Jun 2016, at 7:59 PM, Justin Couch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 29/06/2016 7:42 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: >> Peter, >> >> It won't be long before all of gliding is regarded as just a branch of >> vintage aviation, if it isn't already. >> I wish it wasn't like that but wishing won't make it so. > > I don't disagree with this point at all, but do want to point out that most > activities still have a "sporting" component to it with some rules added to > enforce competitiveness - even after the mass market has taken over and > turned it into common place. Car/Motorcycle/Boat/etc racing hasn't died out > because suddenly everyone can afford to have a car in the driveway. > Similarly, Otto's hang gliding hasn't died out because we can fly to Europe > in an A380 in a day. > > Once upon a time Formula 1 was pretty much anything goes, now it has a rule > book thicker than the local state traffic act - all in the name of > competition. Even just a few years ago, the driver was barely more than > someone that roughly pointed the car where to go and the computers took > control of the details. That got boring and too expensive so now many items > of automation have been removed and "standard" components supplied to all > competing teams. > > I'm sure the same thing will happen with gliding - greater and greater > automation. At some point a halt is called and all competitors are given a > "standard flight computer" that is fitted to their cockpit on the grid each > morning and removed as soon as possible after landing. This will bring back > driver skill into the equation again. > > > -- > Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/ > Java 3D Graphics Information http://www.j3d.org/ > LinkedIn http://au.linkedin.com/in/justincouch/ > G+ WetMorgoth > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Look through the lens, and the light breaks down into many lights. > Turn it or move it, and a new set of arrangements appears... is it > a single light or many lights, lights that one must know how to > distinguish, recognise and appreciate? Is it one light with many > frames or one frame for many lights?" -Subcomandante Marcos > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
