Trial rule amendment for thermal soarers

It was decided at the club meeting on 24th August 2017 to make a trial change to the rule concerning the number of models allowed to fly at once. At present the rule allows 3 models to fly at once, or 4 if at least one is electric powered. As almost all our models are now electric powered this means effectively means 4 models can fly at once.
But there is currently an upsurge in popularity of electric powered thermal soarers and they can happily fly for long periods, so could prevent others flying despite mostly being fairly high and out of the way of others models. As they are gliding for nearly all of their flight there is no noise issue.
So it’s been decided to trial a change allowing 5 models to fly at once as long as at least one is a thermal soarer. This means proper soarers, not hotliners or models like Spirits that look like gliders but happily scream around doing aerobatics etc in the same airspace as other powered models.
If the trial is deemed to be a success the change will become permanent at the AGM next year.