Folk, As per previous post my main concern is Sports Class handicaps, given the extension of Club Class coverage over recent years.
Given the handicaps Sports class risks becoming an LS8 18m class, from what I saw at Benalla last year, noting that from my perspective there is nothing wrong with that :-) Now that older STD and 15m ships are in Club Class and can compete on reasonably equal grounds we need to ask what is Sports class there for and how do you optimize involvement of older Gliders, in particular the orphans in the current system which are the older 19/20m Open class. On that note will leave to the handicaps committee to look at these handicaps in light of the reality of flying these gliders dry in a typical Australian comp day against modern gliders. Best Regards, Mike Durrant VH-FQF On 19/08/2011, at 3:49 PM, Mike Borgelt <[email protected]> wrote: > At 03:24 PM 19/08/2011, you wrote: >> Well, I can't help much but here goes. I don't have any results from >> Narromine 1978, and I have points results but no speeds from Waikerie 81. >> >> Average winners speeds were: >> >> Year Place Open 15M Std >> 77 Renmark 112.9 (.94) 106.6 (.97) 103.5 >> 79 Cunderdin 97.1 (.99) 96.6 (.91) 87.8 >> 80 Benalla 114.4 (.97) 110.8 (.93) 102.5 >> >> Overall 108.1 (.97) 104.7 (.94) >> 97.9 > > Thanks, Tim. > I wasn't there but they were still talking about the great weather at Renmark > the next year at Narromine. > Cunderdin was low and blue with broken thermals so the Open class may have > been at a disadvantage in the climbs at times. > The Benalla contest was a good mix of weather and these results would seem to > show that the Open Class gliders of the day, mainly Nimbus 2s were a bit > better than the ASW20 etc. Maybe the feeling that they aren't as good is > because of the pilots nowadays? > > Mike > > > > Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 > phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 > fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 > cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 > > email: [email protected] > website: www.borgeltinstruments.com > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
