ORIGINAL: FHHuber
OK... I guess I've been misunderstanding this new 25 ft rule... (I was making it safer than the rule makes it.)
And I've been wanting the safety line to be between the pilot and the plane.(Except when launching or recovering.... then cross it briefly)
The way I WAS interpreting would have been safer... And its a good thing to be safer than the rules rather than unsafe.
Your making the 25 ft rule the way it should have been written, IMHO. I guess there are some races where it is necessary to pit the plane during the contest, and that led to the rule being written as it is. Perhaps it might have been wiser to make those the exceptions to the rule.
The flight line rule is more problematic. For instance: in the case of slope gliders, it is often the case that the pits are in a semi-circle, or even a circle.
Llandings are taking place on the sides and even behind the pits. By the nature of the beast, a situation that must exist at most slope sites.