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Hadewych van Kempen <<hadewychvankempen>>
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I figured I'd already said what I had to say in the sprog debate (mainly that
safety is not enhanced by enforcing certain sprog settings on comp pilots,
punishing them severely if they don't comply with some unknown norms that have
an unknown effect on pitch stability). But what happened here at the start of
the women's worlds in Germany is so bizarre that I just couldn't resist taking a
photo and send it to you.

For personal reasons (still can't land properly) I entered the comp with an
Airborne Sting3, which is very much an intermediate glider. It has no sprogs.
I arrived late in the afternoon, after a long and tiring trip, and sure enough
they had me rig the glider for measurement.

When I asked what they would measure, I was told there is enough to measure on a
Sting. Of course, there is, I am just very curious to see the point. If a pilot
shows up for a comp with an intermediate glider, does anyone really expect her
to fiddle with the settings outside the margins of safety, to lengthen the
lufflines or to straighten the battens or something odd, compromising her own
safety, to gain performance? I should be that happily ignorant!

This is where sprogs measurements have "jumped the shark" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark)
and that's assuming that sprog measurements were ever a successful undertaking.
Or is this just another sad example of Germans gone wild (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Gone_Wild)?
Is it first the case that the DHV calls for something that maybe could be
possibly somewhat reasonable (never my position), and then at the first chance
they get they go hog wild?

Isn't this why these kinds of requests (oh, just let us make a few sprog
measurements to be sure everyone is safe) are treated with such suspicion? That
everyone knows once the camel gets his nose in the tent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel's_nose)
the body will follow?

How about an abject apology from the officials for even considering taking these
actions? Or will they be so blind as to not see what they have done?