Anthony Meechan

Corryong Cup 2024 · Task 3 (Floater) (Thu, 11 Jan 2024) · floater · ranked #4 · times in Australia/Melbourne (GMT+11)

Scores computed

Landed out at 9.5 km — 251.6 points

Click any highlighted step in the explanation to see where it happened.

The flight

What the tracklog shows, and which crossings scored.

Crossed the start cylinder boundary 7 times. The scored start is the latest crossing from which the flight still makes its best run along the course — re-starting supersedes an earlier start, while simply flying back through the cylinder later in the task changes nothing.

Start time taken: the start gate — the speed-section clock runs from the gate, not from the crossing (FAI S7F §8.3.1).12:30:00

Day quality — points on offer

Task validity 54.45% of a perfect day, so 544.5 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?54.45%

Time validity — was the winning time long enough relative to the nominal time?100%

Points on offer for the day544.5 pts

1000 × 1.00 × 0.5445 × 1.00 = 544.5

Split between the components by the goal ratio

distance 490.1 · time 5 · leading 42.6 · arrival 6.8

Distance points

226 pts

Scored distance9.5 km

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

Best distance in class30.3 km

Linear half — half the available points scale with your share of the best distance76.7 pts

0.5 × (9.47 km ÷ 30.25 km) × 490.1 = 76.7

Difficulty half — rewards flying past stretches where many pilots landed149.3 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.

Leading points

25.6 pts

Leading points reward flying out front during the speed section — the pilot with the best leading coefficient takes all available leading points, others fall off with the gap.25.6 pts

Measured with the classic squared-distance leading coefficient (S7F §11.3.1, the hang-gliding / GAP2016–2018 variant).

Arrival points

0 pts

Arrival points reward crossing the end of the speed section early relative to the other pilots who reached it.0 pts

Total

251.6 pts

Distance + time + leading + arrival, minus penalties251.6 pts

round(226.0 + 0.0 + 25.6, 1 dp) = 251.6