I may be wrong (probably am), but perhaps some of the unease in the world could be mitigated by one little change in the LSF rules, without changing any tasks at all.
The rules say: "requirements for the subsequent Levels may be achieved any time after the previous Level form has been postmarked..." So you can't get credit for Level III, IV or V tasks until everything in Level II is done and sent off, etc. Now just maybe if you relaxed this requirement, it might make some of the LSF dissidents happier. If a guy wanted to fly only thermal, for example, he could fly all his thermal tasks right up to the two-hour, and he could say, "Well, I have done the thermal requirements for Level V." Then maybe he'd be motivated to do some of the slope tasks, or the XC, or the contests or whatever. The LSF could even give out separate little stickers for thermal, slope, XC, and contests. This changes things very little, yet it addresses quite a few of the specific issues that have been raised on this thread. Now I've made my one and only comment, and I will now shut up. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
