The Seattle Area Soaring Society put on a low-key multi-task event in 2005 which lasted over several months, with primary participation taking place during the club's established Wednesday evening "fun-flys."
With duration, speed, distance, and landing tasks, this served as a gentle introduction to F3B flying. For several club members, this was the first time they'd ever flown their gliders in a speed task, or attempted to see how far they could travel over a closed course. The involvement of the younger club members was quite gratifying.
The club voted to run the "Masters of Soaring" event again in 2006, and set aside money to purchase awards.
This year the course is the same length as the FAI course (150m). Additionally, the event now allows RC-HLG, and a shorter 50m course was laid out for speed and distance tasks for that class.
Several photos from the 2005 event, along with the initial rules, were published in the January 2006 issue of RC Soaring Digest <http://www.rcsoaringdigest.com/pdfs/RCSD-2006/RCSD-2006-01.pdf>.
Your club may want to try something similar. It allows pilots to fly outside of the standard AMA TD environment, parallels many of the LSF tasks, and is both challenging to entrants and exciting for observers.
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