On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 19:48, Leigh Bunting wrote: > Anyway, an APPROVED competition is one that is approved in writing by > CASA. Does this really happen? Nationals? State comps? Club regattas?
Yes - at every competition I have flown at. At the Qld Easter comp at Chinchilla this year (I didn't fly - I was comp director) we DELIBERATELY did not request CASA permission for low finishes. The Easter Comp is a training comp - and I felt strongly that we should not permit low finishes at such a comp. So, no CASA dispensation meant there were no low finishes (there were some srtaight ins - but that is perfectly legal). And yes - I did get a lot of flack about that from people, some of whom claimed that no low finishes meant they would not bother to fly in comps! But then, a comp director gets a lot of flack about everything (and nothing) - it will be a long time before I get talked into doing it again. Finally, dDo you really think that the individuals and organisations that run competitions are completely stupid and flout the law for the joy of it? -- Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (0)438 385 533 Brisbane, Australia http://www.hart.wattle.id.au _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
