Liptov Shepherd

Liptov Shepherd › Competition rules

1. Prerequisites

Every pilot has to own legal copy of Condor (version 1.1.3). 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 October 2nd, 2010. Last competition day is November 20th, 2010. Racing day is Saturday. Server always starts at 18:00 UTC, from 06.11.2010 at 19:00 UTC. The complete competition schedule you can find on this page.

3. Competition class, tasks & settings

We will race in STANDARD class (ASW28, Discus2 and LS8 - DAeC index will be not used), racing tasks (all REGATTA) with PDA allowed. Competition has together 8 racing days.

servername and time of serverstart: Liptov Shepherd GP / 18:00 UTC, from 06.11.2010 at 19:00 UTC
jointime is 30 minutes, race in 20 minutes, window time 0 minutes (regatta)
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 1700 m QNH
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
on every server limit for maximum pilots number is set to 20

4. Sceneries

We have only one competition scenery: beautiful Slovak Republic 1.0, author: Miloš "Cadfael" Koch.

5. Scoring

The competition will use scoring system based on real-life GP, the adjustment relates to a system of scoring. Scoring will be as follows:

everyone who finish task will receive minimally 1 point
number of points for winner of the task will be 1/3 count of pilots registered for the competition
pilot which will finish at second place will receive 2 points less than the winner of the task
each subsequent pilot receives one point less
outlanding will be scored with zero points
total GP points is count of all 8 racing days
results will be available on the official competition website

Entries	Winner Of Task	2nd Place	3rd Place	4th Place	5th Place	etc.	Every Finisher	Outland
102 pilots	34 GP points	32 points	31 points	30 points	29 points	etc.	1 point	0 points

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 adding 10 seconds to finish time per 1 second in clouds.
Outland in task - 0 points.
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 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:liptov2010@virtualsoaring.eu