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Thread: Elimination of Aerobatic Box
Message: Elimination of Aerobatic Box
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From: "Dennis N. Yugo" <dyugo at hooked.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 05:45:14 UTC
As long as we continue our current system where pilots flying aircraft with substantialy different performance compete in the same category, we should stick with our current fixed-size box with boundary infringements. This system is the just about the only equalizer, and the only inhibitor of otherwise unbridled pursuit of power and speed. IN ADDITION, boundary judging is the most objective judging in our sport. It doesn't matter if one prefers monoplanes to biplanes, sharp corners to round corners, or arcane 19th-century nationalistic European standards to American standards, with boundary judging you are either in the box or you are out of the box, PERIOD! (Not to change the subject, but if high- and low- performance aircraft were NOT in the same category, then it would be possible to eliminate the box marking and boundary judge logistical problems without penalizing some pilots more than others. Contests would be considerably easier to stage, and (who knows?) perhaps there would be more of them.) -- Dennis Yugo http://www.hooked.net/~dyugo/design.htm