It might be simple and elegant but, like the other
new type tasks, what it scores certainly isn't a race
as the term is understood by the rest of the world
who aren't glider pilots.

John Galloway



At 20:18 23 September 2003, 303pilot wrote:
Simple and elegant.
Could we add 15 minutes to everyone's time?



'Bill Feldbaumer' wrote in message
om...
The Canadians have been experimenting with a new scoring
system for
soaring contests. They will abandon 1000-point scoring
with all its
inaccuracies and complexities in 2004. Scoring will
be based on
distance with the exclusive use of the Time Distance
Task.

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With the TDT, the CD specifies a flight time, 3 hours,
for example.
Some number of mandatory turnpoints is specified.
Pilots are free to
choose their own turnpoints after that. The CD could
also specify a
radius around the turnpoints, as is done with the
Turn Area Task.

The distance achieved by each pilot three hours after
his start time
is his score. A pilot may be in the air, at the home
airport, or have
landed out when his time is up. Land outs are scored
the same as
finishers, by distance; no arbitrary factors are needed.
A bonus is
given for landing at the home airport.

The cumulative scores are simply the sum of the daily
distances. The
champion is the pilot with the greatest distance for
the entire
contest. Because the total flight time is a fixed
number for the
entire contest, the champion also has the highest
speed for the total
contest. This is, of course, how champions are chosen
in other racing
sports worldwide.

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