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Neil Hooke

Corryong Cup 2021 · Task 5 (Open) (Sat, 16 Jan 2021) · open · ranked #19 · times in Australia/Melbourne (GMT+11)

Scores computed

Landed out at 6.9 km — 172.5 points

The flight

What the tracklog shows, and which crossings scored.

Start time taken: gate 2 of 3 — the last start gate at or before the crossing. The speed-section clock runs from the gate, not from the crossing (FAI S7F §8.3.1).14:00:00

Day quality — points on offer

Task validity 78.365% of a perfect day, so 783.7 of 1000 points were available.

Launch validity — did enough registered pilots launch?100%
Distance validity — did the field fly far enough relative to the nominal distance?78.44%
Time validity — was the winning time long enough relative to the nominal time?99.904%
Points on offer for the day783.7 pts

1000 × 1.00 × 0.7844 × 0.99904 ≈ 783.7 — the validity factors are shown rounded to 5 decimal places; the points on offer come from their full precision.

Split between the components by the goal ratio

distance 449.2 · time 334.4

Distance points

172.5 pts
Scored distance6.9 km

Measured along the optimized task line, up to the furthest point on course.

Best distance in class50.1 km
Linear half — half the available points scale with your share of the best distance30.8 pts

0.5 × (6.86 km ÷ 50.05 km) × 449.2 = 30.8

Difficulty half — rewards flying past stretches where many pilots landed141.7 pts

The difficulty curve is built from where the whole field landed out (FAI S7F §11.1.1).

Time points

0 pts
Time points are only awarded to pilots who reach the end of the speed section.

Total

172.5 pts
Distance + time + leading + arrival, minus penalties172.5 pts

round(172.5 + 0.0, 1 dp) = 172.5