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Liberec Eighteens 2011 › Competition rules
1. Prerequisites
Every pilot has to own legal copy of Condor (version 1.1.4). Any modification of the application or any of the aircraft is forbidden and will be penalized by disqualification from the competition.2. Competition calendar
The competition starts on April 9, 2011, last competition day is May 7, 2011. Racing days are Saturdays. Server always starts at 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC). The complete competition schedule you can find on this page.3. Competition class, tasks & settings
We will race in 18m class, Plane Pack 1 allowed (ASG29, ASW28-18, Discus2c, LS10, LS8s and Ventus2cx). DaeC index will be used. Competition has together 5 racing days.All task will have take-off and landing at Liberec airport.Racing task:
- start sector is 1/2 of circle, radius 5 km (start line is 10 km wide, perpendicular to the course from the last turnpoint)
- turnpoint - cylinder with 0,5 km radius, max. altitude 3000 m MSL
- finish sector - cylinder with 3 km radius, max. altitude 3000 m MSL
- start sector is 1/2 of circle, radius 5 km (start line is 10 km wide, perpendicular to the course from the last turnpoint)
- turnpoint - cylinder with 0,5 km radius, max. altitude 3000 m MSL
- assigned TP sector - cylinder or circle part, max. altitude 3000 m MSL
- finish sector - cylinder with 3 km radius, max. altitude 3000 m MSL
- servername and time of serverstart: Liberec Eighteens 2011 / 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)
- join time is 30 minutes, race will start 10 minute after jointime end, start window open for 60 minutes
- release height of aerotow is 700 m above airfield
- attention: in start sector only left circles are allowed!
- plane icons range is set 1 km
- maximum start altitude will be published in task briefing
- password for server will be published in briefing
- briefing will be published 60 minutes before race for registered users only
- only after mid-air collision is "Q" recovery possible
4. Sceneries
We have only one competition scenery: beautiful Czech Republic 1.0, author: Miloš "Cadfael" Koch.5. Scoring
Each race will be scored via IGC files with ShowCondorIGC and calcutated to 1000 points. DaeC index will be used. Overall result is count of all 5 flights. Results of racing days and also overall score will be posted on this website next day after actuall race is done.6. Disconnection, penalties & protests
In case of your internet disconnect you have option to fly offline. You have to upload your IGC after each flight thru this web (after registration and login you can find in left sidebar menu item Send IGC). If this website is unreachable, you can send your IGC via e-mail. Protest has to be submitted max. 12 hours after server start. Protest will be reviewed for max. 24 hours after submission.- In registration pilot can choose glider type for whole competition. If pilot fly task with different glider type as he has in registration details, he will be scored with zero points. You have to fly whole competetion only with one type of glider.
- Penalty zones will be used (correspond to real maps of Czech republic air space). Penalty: 200 points for zone entry + 200 points per 1 minute in zone.
- Cloud flying will be penalized with 60 penalty points per minute.
- Outland in task - points for distance.
- No IGC uploaded - first time 0 points, repeated - disqualification from competition.
- For scoring in this competition we accept only IGC files created directly from Condor software. How to create and upload IGC see in Help (FAQ) page.
- Aerotow (re-aerotow) is allowed only before turning TP1. Using aerotow after turning TP1 and before finish line - 0 points for task.
- Crash - first time 0 points, repeated crash - disqualification from competition.
- Exception from crash - outlanding with open landing gear and Condor will be announce crash. Must be created screenshot undamaged plane with open landing gear and first line taskinfo (with racing days number), this screenshot send with IGC to e-mail. We will count flight distance then.
- It is prohibited any dangerous flying. Circeling in the direction of climb is determined by the first glider in thermal. If you have doubts about the circeling direction, ask in the chat. Obvious and deliberate breach of these rules may be punished with 10 minutes penalty after the protest. Repeated violation will be punished by the exclusion of competition.
7. Competition Officials
Condor Tasksetter: Václav Kořínek (VK)Condor Serverhosting: Radek Miča (RM)
Web Administration:Erik Praznovský (3P)
E-mail Address:lbc2011@virtualsoaring.eu
