Ryan, is it your intention to have me draft the program?
I'm sorry I won't do that. Smarter people than myself came up with the
original program.
I feel the current program is like the US Constitution. It is very good.
It holds up under time.
It isn't perfect, but what is? But on the other hand it is perfect....
What I find interesting is that the arguments today could have been
argued years 30 years ago..
The numbers are down. Well go get more people involved. Go bring
friends/newcomers to a larger contest.
Maybe they will then enjoy it and bring friends/newcomers too..
To do any of the levels you need witnesses. Go enlist friends to come
fly and turn them into aspirants.
That is what the program is partly about.
I can't tell you what would impress me.. because the program already
does. Attempts to change it or make a new program are falling short.
The program presented by Don dharban and I've been following on the
groups falls short.
The ideas are very simple, not challenging, not noteworthy.
In following the groups I find it also interesting that there are people
who say they are willing to do the work to get the program started, but
then say the LSF should do this and that.
Guys...if you are interested in doing it, get it all prepared think it
through, better than you have .... 3 10 min flights in 1 hour is
ridiculous... That isn't hard. In a good air cycle it's easy.
My son was bored a couple of weeks ago... He had 3 30 or longer minute
flights .. he thought soaring was easy. Then he went to 2 contests and
did very poorly at one and reasonably well at the other but did have
problems. You see the air he went out in was quite easy.. making him
seem like a JW, DP or Tom Kiesling. But he is none of those guys.
The contest situation is FLY NOW, find air and make your time... Land
for very high points. You minimized it. 3 in one hour.
I could think of ways of making it more complicated, but you take out
the landing part because in a contest their is a certain amount of
pressure... you see you can't give up seconds to get the landing.
You have to be right on, on both. In the contest I was at the other day
I had to alter my landing pattern for other incoming ships...
So for another program to be good it has to be tough... It doesn't have
to be the same but 3 10 minute flights in 1 hour...??
Someone wrote me privately the other day to tell me how negative I am...
How I can't see a new program being good. Quite the opposite. I am very
positive about the OLD program.
And if something GOOD comes along I will support that.. It has to be
good, anything less will fail. And be certain of this, anything that
everyone can do WILL FAIL. Not everyone should be able to do it,
otherwise there's no reason to... it's a given.
FLAME SHIELD ON.
rdwoebke wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Steifel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To me this is
a watered down acheivement program that doesn't challenge anyone
Except
for the 8 hour slope.
I'm not impressed.
What would you be impressed with?
Ryan
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Jeff Steifel
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