The LSF is said to be a personal achievement program. If this is so, how
come you have to beat 20 (at level 5) other people in a contest as a
requirement? Not exactly personal. With the number of interested parties
declining in R/C soaring, and the current structure requiring some number
of contestants (defeated) being the metric of the contesting component of
the LSF, it seems unlikely that the program will grow. More
realistically, it will decline as the necessity to seek out a contest with
enough contestants just isn't practical or maybe even possible in most of
the country. And it's been that way for a long time. We have the choice of
"ride it till it dies" or "adapt and overcome".
Soaring is fun because of the lack of rules. Contesting injects both
structure and rules and is fine for those of us who need it. But for
anything, a program, a sport or a government to survive, it must adapt to
suit those involved. In my opinion, if the LSF (task structure
philosophy) remains arrogant enough to decline change, in the end the
accomplishment program will either be ignored or just won't exist.
D.O. Darnell
LSF 249/4 (since 75?)
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