hey just a guy who wants to buy a f16 and am confused, sorry if you thought it was crap. there has been a lot of disscussions about the speed rating and wanted some info. and you guys all seem to have alot of the answers, am i asking in the wrong place? or is this just angry friday?
There are a few bruised egos on here and you'd need to have been here a while to know the background and whether they are justified in feeling as they do.
If you are genuinely interested (I'm not saying you're not), introduce yourself, then ask your questions. F16 in the USA can't, in isolation, go to 'a new rating system'. The standard handicap rating system in the USA is Portsmouth and that is, in all liklihood, the way it'll stay. Changing to a different system shouldn't, in theory, make one design faster than another per se. But in the case of moving from a results based system (Portsmouth) to a measurement based system (SCHRS, Texel) what it can do is remove the anomalies and discrepancies inherent between designs and types as a result of differences in quality of sailors in the two classes.
