Hi all, My apologies if I offended Nick,
I guess I was surprised that you thought it necessary to state something so blatantly obvious. Sarcasm, It's the Doug Piranha influence (-: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Brothers The original poster, Ash's concern to which I was responding, was asking if the most heavily ballast-able glider would be an advantage at JG. Part of the answer lies in pilot ability, part in glider performance, and part in the pilots experience in type. His post was specifically concerned with the odd fact that club class handicaps *and* water ballast were used at JG, as far as I know there is no comp other than JG run under those conditions, so it is a special case rules wise and therefore also glider selection wise. A very good question in fact. There is probably an ideal performance compromise glider to exploit the rules, highest max weight, with lowest handicap compromise? I would be interested in what others think would be the optimal glider to fly to take advantage of those specific rules, actually addressing the posters question and furthering the topic. I agree that James has a great deal of ability, and used that to overcome the relative disadvantage of an Astir, even against "superior" gliders, which was my original point. Anthony as usual summed up the general situation of comp handicapping very well, but again this question related to optimization for a specific and unique combination of rules and handicaps used only at JG. P.S. My personal best height recently 8,[EMAIL PROTECTED] at Waikerie the last 2 Saturdays, 10,500ft in thermal wave for Robbo. Regards Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 11:34 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliders wanted for MultiClass Nationals First of all, Dave, why the sarcasm? It appeared to me that you had overlooked something, and I pointed it out. James would have won the comp on a hangar door - he literally had a disadvantage, but was good enough to overcome it. The disadvantage / advantage in choice of aircraft is not insignificant. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
