RULES
2005
(OLC-International and regional OLCs)
16.10.2004
GOALS
The goal of
the 'aerokurier Online Contest' (OLC) is a timely scoring of
cross-country flights, free from the burden of flight declarations,
to allow an easy and up-to-date comparison of decentralised cross country flights.
The increase of the number of cross-country flights is another goal of the OLC.
1. Documentation
IGC-approved
GNSS Flight Recorders will be used exclusively for documentation. Motor-gliders
will document flight without propulsion by recording of the Engine Noise Level (ENL). For some national OLCs the requirements for the Flight Recorders are relaxed. These relaxations are detailed after these rules.
Official observers are not required.
2. Evaluation,
official distance
After the flight
the start point, up to five turnpoints and the finish point are determined
on the flight trace, so that the scored points for the flights are maximised.
The entire flight from start time until finish time has to be performed in free flight without any means of propulsion.
Start point,
all turnpoints and finish point have to be recorded GNSS fixes.
For regional OLCs it is reqired that at least one recorded GNSS fix
of the flight has to be in the region for which the flight is claimed.
3. Altitude
difference, start and finish time
The minimal finish altitude is 1000 metre below the start altitude.
The start altitude the lowest altitude after the begin of free flight and
before reaching the start point.
The start time is the time at which the start altitude is reached.
The finish altitude is the highest altitude after reaching the finish point
and before end of free flight.
The finish time is the time at which the finish altitude is reached after
the finish point is reached.
4. Scoring,
points
1 raw point per kilometre is granted for the distance from the start point
around the three turnpoint to fourth turnpoint.
For the distance between fourth turnpoint to the fifth turnpoint
0.8 raw points per kilometre are granted.
For the distance between fifth turnpoint and the finish point
0.6 raw points per kilometre are granted.
The raw points are multiplied with 100 and are divided by the applicable DaeC
Index. The resulting final points is rounded to two decimal digits.
5. Flight claiming
Fliht claims will be only accepted at
www.onlinecontest.org.
Claimes have to be submitted by 24:00 on the Tuesday following
the flight local time of the finish point.
The IGC-file has to be
submitted as part of the flight claim. By submitting the flight the
participant certifies that the flight took place as claimed.
The IGC file
has to be submitted with the flight claim.
By submitting
the flight the participant certifies that the flight took place as claimed.
6. Scoring period
The scoring period starts
October 12th 2004 and ends October 10th 2005. The competition for the following
12 month period begins on the following day and ends on the Monday after the second Sunday the year
after, and so on.
7. Winners
and prize-distribution
Winner and "aerokurier
Online Contest Champion 2005" is the participant who scores the highest
number of points with six flights. The prize-distribution will take place
at the OLC-symposium in Gersfeld/Rhön (Germany) in October 2005.
8. Publishing
of data
The participant
agrees that his flight data and flight-routes will be published on the
Internet at www.onlinecontest.org .
9. Validation
Flights and
scores will be accepted if no objections have been filed against them within
4 weeks after the corresponding weekly deadline (see para 5).
Deadline for objections against flights made after the 15th September will be
the Tuseday after the second Sunday in October.
Flight data
in the form of IGC data files must be kept by the participant until one
month after the end of the current competition.
10. Participation
and Registration
Participants
are individual pilots, or two-pilot teams for double seaters.
Participation
is free of charge (sponsors finance the OLC).
Registration can only be made online via the forms provided at
www.onlinecontest.org
and has to be made once a year.
By their registration
the participants agree to the competition rules.
11. Minimun points per flight (new in 2005)
