PWCA Competition Rules 2014

For example, World Cup Ager, August 20th – 27th:
Saturday, August 20th = registration.
Sunday, August 21st = first task.
Saturday, August 27th = last task and prize giving.
For example: “After 15 hours of airtime without a rest day for average pilots in goal, the following
day will be a rest day”
For example, the Appeal Committee’s powers include, but are not restricted to:
Change ranking lists in case of obvious errors
Invalidate a task for an overall ranking in case of severe infringement of World Cup rules
Change a jury decision in case of an appeal lodged against a jury decision as well as making
a decision in case of jury failure
Decide on refunding any of the deposit and the apportionment of the costs of the appeal
Example: If pilot 174 wants to report landing, together with 3 other pilots (21, 73 and 411), the
message would be: “174 21 73 411 0725738 5020845 waiting at the bar”
Example: On a 400m cylinder, this gives a 2 m tolerance.
Example: In a Clock Start task, some pilots use the last start at 14:00. The task is stopped at 16:12,
giving a Task Stop Time of 16:07. The “minimum available flying time” is 2 hours 7 minutes. Therefore,
pilots who took the start at 13:30 will be scored for their best position reached up until 15:37.
Example: Nordic Open: Norway (4) + Sweden (5) + Denmark (5) + Finland (6) = Level 4 for foreign
pilots.
Example: Three pilots count for Andorra in the PWC, but only one pilot from Andorra competed in
the FAI World Championship. Therefore, Andorra’s nation score is lowered by 100 points.
Example for an alert message: “This is pilot 911, I am a witness of an accident 5 kilometers before
the third turnpoint, B07. It is a yellow glider, he threw his reserve and is now hanging in a tree. I
could land close to him. What should I do?”
DayQuality LaunchValidity*DistanceValidity*TimeValidity StopValidity
LVR
NumberOfPilotsFlying NominalLaunch
NumberOfPilotsPresent
LaunchValidity
LVR
LVR
LVR
DVR
SumOfFlownDistancesOverMinDist
NumPilotsFlying
DistanceValidity
NomGoal
NomGoal
DVR
TVR
TVR
TimeValidity
NomDist MinDist
BestTime
NominalTime
BestDistance
NominalDistance
TVR
TVR
TVR
BestDist NomDist
GoalRatio
NumberOfPilotsInGoal
NumberOfPilotsFlying
DistanceWeight
LeadingWeight
GoalRatio
DistanceWeight
GoalRatio
DistanceWeight
AltitudeArrivalWeight ESS
goal
AltitudeAr rivalWeight ESS
goal
TimeWeight
DistanceWeight LeadingWei ght
AvailableDistancePoints
DistanceWeight
AvailableTimePoints
AvailableLeadingPoints
AvailableArrivalPoints
TimeWeight
LeadingWeight
ArrivalWeight
ArrivalWeight
GoalRatio
p p
PilotsLaunched TotalScore p
DistancePoints p
Distancep
BestDistance
SpeedFraction p
TimePoints p
SpeedFraction p
Time p
DistancePoints p
TimePoints p
AvailableDistancePoints
BestTime
BestTime
AvailableTimePoints
LeadingPoints p
ArrivalPoints p
LC
p p
LeadingFactor p
LeadingPoints p
PilotsFlown LC p
LC p
LC
LC
LeadingFactor p AvailableLeadingPoints
tpi
LC p
p p
LC p
p p
LC p
i i
tpi
tpi
i tpi TrackPointsInSS p
PilotsLandedOut
LC p
LengthOfSpeedSection
tp
ESSTime LastPilotAtESS
LastTime LastPilotAtESS
PilotsLandedOut
LC p
tp
tp
ESSTime LastPilotAtESS
tp
tp
tp
TaskDeadline
tp
tp
LengthOfSpeedSection
tpi
TrackPointsInSS p
tpi
tpi
LenghtOfSpeedSection
tpi
DayQualitystopped
LaunchValidity*Dista nceValidity*TimeValidity StoppedTaskValidity
NumberOfPilotsReachedESS
NumberOfPilotsReachedESS
StoppedTaskValidity
BestDistFlown
i DistFlowni
DistLaunchToESS BestDistFlown
NumPilotsLandedBeforeStopTime
NumPilotsLaunched
StoppedTaskValidty
i DistFlowni