safty finish at the 2007Sp.Nat's?

[Udo]

It seem that the safety finish was rejected based on the revised
score sheet. What are the details?
Regards
Udo

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On Jun 19, 1:50 pm, Udo > wrote:
> It seem that the safety finish was rejected based on the revised
> score sheet. What are the details?
> Regards
> Udo

Several pilots lost speed points because they were below the 1000ft
AGL minimum at the edge of the safety finish cylinder. All flights
claiming a safety finish are currently under review. A new scoresheet
will be posted when available.

2c

[Karl Striedieck]

There is no requirement to be at 1000 feet at the edge of the five-mile
safety finish cylinder. The requirement is to have at least one fix inside
the cylinder that is at or greater than a 20:1 slope to the finish point at
the field. The pilot can then retreat to a safer landing point of his/her
choosing. The speed from the most favorable fix in the cylinder to the
finish line is a fixed 60 mph.

KS

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> On Jun 19, 1:50 pm, Udo > wrote:
>> It seem that the safety finish was rejected based on the revised
>> score sheet. What are the details?
>> Regards
>> Udo
>
> Several pilots lost speed points because they were below the 1000ft
> AGL minimum at the edge of the safety finish cylinder. All flights
> claiming a safety finish are currently under review. A new scoresheet
> will be posted when available.
>
> 2c
>

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On Jun 19, 2:16 pm, "Karl Striedieck" > wrote:
> There is no requirement to be at 1000 feet at the edge of the five-mile
> safety finish cylinder. The requirement is to have at least one fix inside
> the cylinder that is at or greater than a 20:1 slope to the finish point at
> the field. The pilot can then retreat to a safer landing point of his/her
> choosing. The speed from the most favorable fix in the cylinder to the
> finish line is a fixed 60 mph.
>
> KS
>
> > wrote in message
>
> oups.com...
>
> > On Jun 19, 1:50 pm, Udo > wrote:
> >> It seem that the safety finish was rejected based on the revised
> >> score sheet. What are the details?
> >> Regards
> >> Udo
>
> > Several pilots lost speed points because they were below the 1000ft
> > AGL minimum at the edge of the safety finish cylinder. All flights
> > claiming a safety finish are currently under review. A new scoresheet
> > will be posted when available.
>
> > 2c

My mistake. Its the 20:1 requirement that is being revisited.

2c

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> > >> It seem that the safety finish was rejected based on the revised
> > >> score sheet. What are the details?
> > >> Regards
> > >> Udo

> My mistake. Its the 20:1 requirement that is being revisited.

Actually the glide slope is not 20:1 it is 26.4:1. (200 ft per mile)

What happened on Day 6 of the Sports Nationals was that the version of
Winscore used at the contest did not automatically support the safety
finish rule. The scorer had to perform some manual steps to generate
scores and during that process some altitudes were misinterpreted and
finishes were incorrectly given to 3 contestants on the preliminary
scoresheet.

The logs were then more carefully reevaluated by the scorer and also
by an updated version of Winscore. Both evaluations showed that 3
contestants, while within the 5 mile horizontal bounds of the safety
cylinder, were below the required glide slope. The times and
distances of the remaining contestants who received safety finishes
will be rescored after a clarification of the safety finish rules.

Guy Byars