Formula 1.0 Grand Prix

How close to the turnpoint you go is relative to your glider handicap. Today Libelles turned 3.1km short, and Jantar STD 2/3 turned at 500m.

When I said nowhere near, I meant twenty km in the wrong direction.

There's some great coverage coming out of this event. In addition to the live tracking mentioned earlier, there are interviews, superb aerial photography and even live interview inflight. https://www.facebook.com/formula1point0/ If this is soaring being dragged into the 20th century (sic), I like it a lot.

CJ, 'B3'

On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 6:12:11 AM UTC-5, wrote:
There's some great coverage coming out of this event. In addition to the live tracking mentioned earlier, there are interviews, superb aerial photography and even live interview inflight. https://www.facebook.com/formula1point0/ If this is soaring being dragged into the 20th century (sic), I like it a lot.

CJ, 'B3'

The coverage of Formula 1.0 on Facebook has been incredible! I can't wait to hear form their tech people as to how they managed to obtain LIVE in-flight interviews of the pilots. Tracking for spectators and this type of contest coverage may help sell the sport to Millennials up to about late GenX. We need stories (with visuals) and we need heroes. Every sport has its heroes.

- Chris Schrader

Stayed up too late watching. Too bad Andy couldn't have caught up and given the leader a run for his money but it was fun watching him try!!

On Friday, 5 January 2018 16:28:50 UTC+11, wrote:

The coverage of Formula 1.0 on Facebook has been incredible! I can't wait to hear form their tech people as to how they managed to obtain LIVE in-flight interviews of the pilots. Tracking for spectators and this type of contest coverage may help sell the sport to Millennials up to about late GenX. We need stories (with visuals) and we need heroes. Every sport has its heroes.

Around Leeton the 4G coverage is really good. Then it is just simple hardware with a webcam and a decent antenna and using off the shelf IP video call software. Whole rig cost around AUD$100 to set up.

This has been great watching all the live updates on facebook. I sure hope this style of racing catches on here in the states. What handicaping sceme are the using?

Never mind. I went back to the initial post and see how they are doing it. Great concept. Sure hope someone can put together the same here in the states, but please don't try to include asw20's, discus's etc. its nice to see it exclusively older club class ships although the jantar 3 in my opinion, is pretty high up on the performance scale say compared to a libelle 201. I would hope the handicapping truthfully accounts for that. I know the Carl Herold system we use here, while a pretty good starting place, leaves very much to be desired when it's actually applied.

The difference between the Jantar Std 2/3 & Std Libelle is 3%, which may be a little narrow - although the Jantars didn't dominate the comp. This may have more to do with the pilots that flew them - it's hard to say.

When you say "Sure hope someone can put together the same here in the states", why don't you do it?

Cheers,
Nick.

On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 11:04:12 PM UTC+10:30, wrote:
Never mind. I went back to the initial post and see how they are doing it. Great concept. Sure hope someone can put together the same here in the states, but please don't try to include asw20's, discus's etc. its nice to see it exclusively older club class ships although the jantar 3 in my opinion, is pretty high up on the performance scale say compared to a libelle 201.. I would hope the handicapping truthfully accounts for that. I know the Carl Herold system we use here, while a pretty good starting place, leaves very much to be desired when it's actually applied.