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Ken Millard

Corryong Cup 2025 · Task 3 (Open) (Thu, 9 Jan 2025) · open · ranked #13 · times in Australia/Melbourne (GMT+11)

Scores computed

Landed out at 30.7 km — 454.2 points

The flight

What the tracklog shows, and which crossings scored.

Start time taken: the start gate — the speed-section clock runs from the gate, not from the crossing (FAI S7F §8.3.1).13:45:00

Day quality — points on offer

Task validity 78.83% of a perfect day, so 788.3 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?78.83%
Time validity — was the winning time long enough relative to the nominal time?100%
Points on offer for the day788.3 pts

1000 × 1.00 × 0.7883 × 1.00 = 788.3

Split between the components by the goal ratio

distance 709.5 · time 78.8

Distance points

454.2 pts
Scored distance30.7 km

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

Best distance in class64.8 km
Linear half — half the available points scale with your share of the best distance168.1 pts

0.5 × (30.7 km ÷ 64.8 km) × 709.5 = 168.1

Difficulty half — rewards flying past stretches where many pilots landed286.1 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

454.2 pts
Distance + time + leading + arrival, minus penalties454.2 pts

round(454.2 + 0.0, 1 dp) = 454.2

Track data cleaning

31 of 10201 GPS fixes (0.3%) carried an implausible altitude and were repaired before analysis — flagged by vertical-speed limits (no barometric channel to cross-check). Positions and times are never altered. How data cleaning works

  • 15:24:00 · 1 fix · up to 141 m off
  • 15:24:14 · 1 fix · up to 141 m off
  • 15:24:23–15:24:24 · 2 fixes · up to 221 m off
  • 15:24:42–15:24:43 · 2 fixes · up to 172 m off
  • 15:25:03 · 1 fix · up to 109 m off
  • 15:25:30–15:25:31 · 2 fixes · up to 177 m off
  • 15:25:49 · 1 fix · up to 133 m off
  • 15:26:53 · 1 fix · up to 111 m off
  • 15:27:43 · 1 fix · up to 136 m off
  • 15:48:26 · 1 fix · up to 89 m off
  • 15:48:51 · 1 fix · up to 112 m off
  • 15:49:19 · 1 fix · up to 109 m off
  • 15:50:27 · 1 fix · up to 123 m off
  • 16:05:14–16:05:20 · 6 fixes · up to 258 m off
  • 16:05:35 · 1 fix · up to 132 m off
  • 16:05:42 · 1 fix · up to 133 m off
  • 16:06:29 · 1 fix · up to 117 m off
  • 16:10:42 · 1 fix · up to 110 m off
  • 16:23:37 · 1 fix · up to 100 m off
  • 16:23:55 · 1 fix · up to 84 m off
  • 16:25:11 · 1 fix · up to 107 m off
  • 16:45:41–16:45:42 · 2 fixes · up to 231 m off