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RETRO CUP 2014 › Competition Rules
1. Prerequisites
Every pilot has to own legal copy of Condor (version 1.1.5) and legal copy of Plane Pack 2. 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 February 15, 2014, last competition day is March 29, 2014. Racing day is Saturday. Server always starts at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC). The complete competition schedule you can find here.3. Competition Class, Tasks & Settings
We will race only with these glider types: ASW19 and JantarStd3. Water ballast allowed, tasks without PDA. Competition has together 7 racing days. All task will have take-off and landing at St. Georgen Am Ybbsfelde airport.- servername and time of serverstart: Retro Cup / 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC)
- join time is 30 minutes, race will start 1 minute after jointime end, start window open for 120 minutes
- start line is 10 km wide, finish line is 1 km wide, perpendicular to the course from the last turnpoint
- turnpoint is 1/4 of circle, radius 3000 m
- maximum start altitude will be 5000 m QNH
- release height of aerotow is 700 m above airfield
- plane icons range is set 1 km
- turnpoint helpers range is set 5 km, external views allowed
- 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: brand new beautiful Austria 2.0, author: Miloš "Cadfael" Koch.5. Scoring System
Each race will be scored via IGC files with ShowCondorIGC and calcutated to 1000 points. Overall result is count of all seven flights. Results of racing days and also overall score will be posted on this website next day after actuall race is done.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.
- 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 10 minutes penalty after the protest. Repeated violation will be punished by the exclusion of competition.
7. Awards
Winner pilot receive an award from www.condorworld.eu - licence code for Condor scenery Austria 2.0 PRO, pilots on second and third place will receive 3D Objects - Gold Edition (for Austria 2.0 PRO and Czechoslovakia 3.0 PRO sceneries).8. Competition Officials
Condor Tasksetter:Radek Miča (RUM)Condor Serverhosting:www.condorworld.eu / Miloš "Cadfael" Koch (MK)
Webpage Administration:Erik Praznovský (EP)
Contest E-mail Address:retrocup@virtualsoaring.eu
