It’s time for a quiet victory lap. It just is. Literally ALL (100%, even AHRS) of my opinions expressed in years of various RAS comments (which they triggered and turned into shit fights as they do with anything they don’t like on RAS, also failed now 😂) and on social media are winning in the Soaring Society of Americas desperate annual contest pilot US rules “opinion poll” despite a decade of various desperate good old boy efforts to try and “tune out” my influence. Hi John.
I utilized a long list of sensible, well thought out arguments supported by facts and data 📊. It drive them absolutely nuts. They responded with the pathetic good/nixon FAI rules white paper 😂 offered without counterpoint (aka me, or any of the many other pilots who want FAI rules back in the USA, not hybrid bullshit they came up with after losing the first poll) and posted prominently on the SSA website as if it was law. This along with tons of other shady side bar whispering and internal oligarch political efforts. I laugh and laugh as I read these opinion polls (question logic is see thru and comical) each year and especially laugh the comments (hysterical). Sure there are stubborn tyrants ranting every year about how great US rules are. But every year the GoB’s lose ground, years after I have rested my case. Today the US competition pilots speak for me. And every year the GOB’s seem a little more desperate to remain relevant. It brings me so much joy to see so many other pilots echoing my positions and arguments.
ITS VERY SIMPLE, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY ZERO UTILITY TO DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING A SEPARATE RULE SYSTEM FOR THE USA. THIS IS A FACT. THE FAI RULES ARE NOT “DANGEROUS.” IN FACT THE SSA RULES ARE ARGUABLY MORE DANGEROUS (Close proximity high speed descending and climbing 2 min max altitude start, criss cross crash assigned turn points (completely unpredictable), having to re-learn new rules constantly or just not even bothering. Etc, etc.) It makes absolutely ZERO SENSE to hold the USA hostage to a failed experiment poorly managed rules system (with no software to support it) except to a tiny minority of stubborn GOB tyrants who have banded together politically to keep FAI rule supporters out of the commuters and to maintain (against the will of the majority of US contest pilots) the failed US rules or die trying. Its just sad.
Of course this says nothing about their constant efforts to bait the FAI into adopting their experimental rules via US representation (which goes into the role for the majority US contest pilots who want FAI rules, hating the FAI rules and only are there to change them to their minority position).
They don’t like my challenge, not one bit. Good! I was a breath of fresh air for the sport of soaring (entering it at 41) both in terms of views on using a sport as an experiment with ZERO VALUE and in my competitive skill. I was probably a decade ahead of my time, but was damn right (US rules are a failure in many ways), and absolutely spot about the fact that these rules should never have been permanent if not adopted by the FAI despite their 20 year tantrum against the FAI (to which I entered in the middle), which is ongoing. Watching them trigger, plot, dance, tear their hair out, flat out panic (in Good Old Boy circles), attack, and get angry is, sadly, kinda fun. Every way they try and re-ask the same questions (when they get answers they don’t like) on their poll, the answers remain clear. The majority of USA’s contest pilots continue to vote for STRAIGHT FAI RULES, just like the rest of the world, despite the GOB’s fear tactics and endless propaganda campaigns (poll question commentary aka answer this way!). Sadly, most of these folks trying to force Us rules either do not fly contests anymore or are entirely uncompetitive, or both. Yet the inject themselves into the conversation and desperately try and keep the sport from changing into what the majority wants. This is the opposite of a democracy. It’s an oligarchy and clown show.
I call these winter months the SILLY SEASON. The GOB’s clinging to power (whatever that is in US soaring circles) like a wet cat on the wavy seawall but their grip is fading visibly each and every year, faster and faster.
#Winning #WINNING #WINWINWINWINWIN #VICTORY
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like…..it smells like……..VICTORY! UUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
