Rule Change Proposal

[Jerry Budd]

Why?

I mean, what does the takeoff and landing direction have to do with 
anything, let alone the direction you fly the sequence?

Why does it matter?

(that's a rhetorical question - the answer is that it doesn't, it has 
no relevance whatsoever).

Ron - I like your thinking on this but it's still unnecessarily 
constraining.  I'd suggest that the takeoff and landing direction 
should be purely at the pilots discretion, meaning that they can be 
in whatever direction the pilot chooses (the safety responsibility 
lies solely in the pilots lap on this one), and that they have no 
bearing on the direction of flight that the sequence is flown in. 
It's all up to the pilot, the judges really don't even need to be 
involved in this other than to assist in letting the pilot know if 
the runway is "clear" or not.

Of course the next logical extension of this is as Bob Pastorello 
suggested which is to not even score the takeoffs and landings, but 
apparently that's way too radical of an idea for some to openly 
consider.  And that's unfortunate.

JMHO, Jerry


>I'd support it also, as long as the direction only changes for 
>landing- the rest of the sequence must be in accordance w/ takeoff 
>direction.
>
>Rick Wallace
>  >
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Ron Van Putte" <vanputte at cox.net>
>>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:29 PM
>>Subject: Rule Change Proposal
>>
>>
>>  > I'd like to float a rule change proposal for consideration and
>>  > discussion.
>>  >
>>  > After recently attending a contest in which landing downwind was very
>>  > difficult and dangerous, I thought there should be a rule change
>>  > regarding the landing direction.  Off the top of my head, I'd say
>>  > something like, "In case of a wind shift during the flight and to
>>  > reduce the hazard to people and the aircraft, subject to the approval
>  > > of the judges, the landing direction is the pilot's option."

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