At 07:09 PM 20/12/2007, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I can confirm that Joeyglide is being run in accordance with the
>Australian Nationals rules, and I apologise for any suggestion that
>it might not be.
>
>In my previous note, I was stating the default penalty. There is a
>provision in the rules for the Penalties Committee to apply a more
>lenient penalty in the non-competitive part of the flight, if the
>breach of airspace was not to the competitive advantage of the pilot
>and where there were extenuating circumstances. I cannot comment in
>detail on the reasons for their decision - I can only say that they
>have that option and obviously exercised it in this case.
Still absurd.
What part of launching on a contest flight is non competitive?
Extenuating circumstances? With GPS and moving maps? Supposedly
competent pilots?
By allowing options the rule merely becomes a matter of someone's
opinion as does the contest result.
Some penalty decisions might require this to be so. Airspace in the
GPS era isn't one of them and these circumstances should be minimised
to the greatest extent possible. It makes life
unnecessarily difficult for contest organisers.
I remember a contest where the CD was very happy at the end that I
won the last day by a large enough margin to win the contest and make
the protest by another competitor about the
penalty imposed as a result of what he did on the first day (nothing
to do with me or anyone else), irrelevant.
Mike
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