Raven Competition 2010 › Competition rules
1. Prerequisites
Every pilot has to own legal copy of Condor. 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 January 23th, 2010. Last competition day is February 27th, 2010. Racing day is Saturday. Server always starts at 20:00 CET (18:00 UTC).3. Competition class, tasks & settings
We will race in STANDARD class (ASW28, Discus2 and LS8), racing tasks and AAT with PDA. Competition has together 6 racing days.- servername and time of serverstart: Raven Competition 2010 / 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC)
- jointime is 30 minutes, race will start 10 minutes after jointime ends
- start line is 10 km wide, final line is 1 km wide, perpendicular to the course from the last turnpoint
- turnpoint is a circle with 500 m diameter
- release height of aerotow is 700 m above airfield
- plane icons range is set 2 km
- maximum start altitude 2100 m
- 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: Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur 1.30, author: Agentschlegel.5. Scoring
Each race will be scored with ShowCondorIGC and calcutated to 1000 points. Overall result is count of all 6 flights. Results of racing days and also overall score will be posted on this website next day after actuall race is done (Sunday).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.
- 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.
- 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 50 penalty points after the protest. Repeated violation will be punished by the exclusion of competition.
7. Competition Officials
Condor Tasksetter:Radek Miča (RM)Web Administration:Erik Praznovský (3P)
E-mail Address:raven2010@virtualsoaring.eu
