[RCSE] Yes we have no landings :-)

[GordySoar]

Okay all you anti gymnastic landing for points guys, here's one way you might be able to understand the what the second half of a TD contest are actually about... and its not about 'landing'.   Landing is a term that fires off some preconcieved idea (your personal idea) in your minds eye of what a sailplane should 'look' like at the end of a flight.   So when you see a contest sailplane flying task for points and it stabs into the ground, or it's skeg hooks for an abrupt stop, or slides gracefully in the grass,,, if that reality doesn't match your personal vision of what it should look like, you are either pleased, impressed or critical.   The line judge on the other hand measures from the nose to the mark to determine earned points.   IF you were to view/name the end of the task as the 'Ending Nose Position for Points' there would be no judgement about form.  Nothing prior to the measurement would be discussed, or considered. That was the point of my earlier post.  TD contest have no evaluation criteria for flying form, angle of approach, speed of approach, or the position/attitude of the sailplaine's airframe. The only thing that counts is the measurement of the nose to the mark.   A 'good' landing is 100 points, a bad landing is zero points, flipped over or shedding a part or too far from the mark.   It would be appropriate to view my 'landings' and comment "Good nose position!" :-) Gordy