R U L E S

1. AIM: SOARING - FURTHER - HIGHER - FASTER
1.1 The Aims of this competition are:

·  to promote cross-country soaring for all pilots at the club level

·  to encourage XC flying and allow young and new XC pilots to gain experience such that they may later qualify for other competitions, and

·  to document the amount of cross country soaring done in Canada. Useful information in the never-ending fight for access to airspace

2. ORGANIZER
2.1 The Canadian Decentralized National Competition (CDNC) is a CAS initiative and uses the aerokurier on-line Contest (OLC) to score flights.
2.2 For the 2002/2003 CDNC the competition organizer and committee are:
Organizer: Canadian Advanced Soaring (contactcas@netscape.net)
Committee: Dave Springford (contactcas@netscape.net), Joerg Stieber (joerg_stieber@hotmail.com)
Administrator: Ernst W. Schneider (cdnc@ews.ca)

3. TIMEFRAME 2002
3.1 The CDNC 2003 starts October 16th 2003 and finishes October 15th 2004.
3.2 Competition years 2004 and following start Oct 16 of the previous year and end Oct 15 of the current year

4. COMPETITION ENTRY
4.1 All pilots who are a member of a Canadian Soaring Club can enter the competition.
4.2 Non residents can enter the competition but can not win the national titles.
4.3 A pilot can only submit scores for the Canadian Soaring Club that was specified during registration for the competition. For scoring purposes, change of club is not permitted during the season.
4.4 The entry fee is $ 15 for non-CAS members and $10 for CAS members for individual supporting member. Beginning from the 2002/2003 season there is also the option of club CDNC payments as follows:

- 15 and more participating club members submit flights to the CDNC = $ 200.-
- 10 to 14  participating club members submit flights to the CDNC = $ 150.-
- 5 to 10 participating club members submit flights to the CDNC = $ 75.-
- 2 to 4 participating club members submit flights to the CDNC = $ 30.-

This new club payment option allows for significant savings and much easier administration on our side and would be our preferred method of fee collection.

The entry fee is to be paid withing 30 days of pilot registration and is payable to Canadian Advanced Soaring by Cheque, Mastercard, or VISA. Please include a short note with your payment that this is for the CDNC. If paid by cheque mail the cheque to:

Paul Thompson,
420 Mines Road,
Caledonia, ON,
N3W 1X8

For Credit card payment email to:
Pault2thompson@aol.com

or fax to (905)-765-9809

$ 10.- per participating individual pilot and 80% of the collected club participation fees will be forwarded to the OLC group to support their volunteer work.

We consider removing pilots and their flights from the CDNC if they are not paid up within a month after submitting a flight. This whole competition is Volunteer and Sponsor based and your contribution will be used to pay for the immense data traffic created by the online contest. Please don’t be cheap but supportive of a great idea and help it grow.

5. ENTRY PROCEDURE
5.1 Pilots may register for the CDNC with the online entry form found on the OLC-Canada website.
5.2 Upon registration in the CDNC the pilot agrees to participate in this competition according to the rules.

6. DOCUMENTATION of competition flights
6.1 Flight verification will be through the use of IGC approved loggers. The following non IGC approved loggers may also be used in the CDNC.

·  Bonniere NMEA recorder

·  Garmin GPS’s when using G7toWin to download the flight
-> you can get the G7toWin SW here: http://home.attbi.com/~g7towin/

·  other loggers can be approved for the CDNC. For approval send a IGC file and description of logger to (contactcas@netscape.net).

PLEASE NOTE that flights not recorded with an approved IGC logger can ONLY be used for the Canadian portion of the online contest and will score “zero” points on the international contest.

6.2 Motor gliders require loggers capable of recording the ENL(Engine noise level).
6.3 The following information must be placed in the logger prior to take-off:

·  The first and last name of the pilot (for multi-place gliders it is desirable to specify first and last name of the co-pilot as well), For club gliders and gliders in a syndicate it is suitable to have the club name in the logger or one of the syndicate pilots name.

·  the glider registration and competition number if applicable,

·  the exact type of the glider including wingspan (i.e. Ventus C 17.6 m or 15m rather than just Ventus C)
6.4 Official observers are not necessary.

7. FLIGHT ENTRY
7.1 Flights are entered into the CDNC using the OLC website or directly through enabled Software such as Strepla or SeeYou. Note that flights must be entered prior to 11:59 P.M. on the Tuesday following the flight. Any flight on a Tuesday can be entered until the following Tuesday.
7.2 By submitting a flight the pilot attests to the authenticity of his declaration and flight.
7.3 After submitting a flight the pilot is required to check if the flight is shown correctly on the OLC-Canada website.
7.4 For flights not shown correctly please send an email with the IGC file attached to (contactcas@netscape.net).

8. DISCLOSURE
8.1 By participating in the OLC, the pilot agrees to the publishing of the flight data on the internet.
8.2 The participant agrees that this data can be used for statistical, meteorological, scientific and other non-commercial purposes.

9. SCORING
9.1 One(1) raw point per kilometre is granted for the distance from the start point around the first three turnpoint to the fourth turnpoint.
For the distance from the fourth turnpoint to the fifth turnpoint 0.8 raw points per kilometre are granted.
For the distance from the fifth turnpoint and the finish point 0.6 raw points per kilometre are granted.
The raw points are multiplied by 100 and are then divided by the applicable DaeC Index. The resulting final points are rounded to two decimal places.
9.3 The entire flight from the start point to the finish point must be performed in free flight without any means of propulsion.
9.2 The startpoint, all turnpoints and the finish point must be recorded GNSS fixes found in the flight trace for that flight. (This is contrary to the old system where these points were declared and rounded via either an FAI sector or contest-type cylinder)
9.3 The start or finish point of the flight must be in either Canada or the US.

10. ALTITUDE DIFFERENCE, START & FINISH TIME
10.1 The minimum finish altitude is 1000 meters below the start altitude.
10.2 The start time is the time at which the start altitude is reached.
10.3 The start altitude is the highest altitude after the start of free flight and before reaching the start point.
10.3 The finish altitude is the highest altitude after reaching the finish point and before ending free flight.
10.4 The finish time is the time at which the finish altitude is reached.

11.GLIDER CLASSES
11.1 All gliders are scored in the same class using handicaps.
11.2 Flights in motorgliders shall be accepted provided the pilot can provide evidence that the engine was shut down after take off and whether or not it was started during the flight. If the engine is used in flight after launching, the glider shall be scored as having landed at that point

12. SUBSCORING
Scoring will be done in the following categories:
12.1 CDNC Champion:
The best 6 flights of the pilot during the competition period. Only the pilot-in-command may claim flights in multi-place gliders
12.2 Junior champion:
The best six flights from pilots who have not reached age 25 prior to the start of the competition year
12.2 Novice champion:
The best six flights from pilots who have not completed their Gold or Diamond 300 km flight as of the beginning of the competition and have not flown a flight of 300 km or more in previous decentralized or centralized gliding competitions.
12.4 Senior champion:
The best six flights from pilots who have reached age 60 prior to the start of the competition year.
12.5 Canadian Club Champion:
The club whose pilot's accumulate the most points throughout the competition period. The scores of all the flights of all pilots in each club are added.
12.6 Regional subscoring:
The following Canadian provinces are grouped into regions for a regional sub-scoring
BC/AB
SK/MB
ON/QC
Maritimes
For regional subscoring flights must originate in the region it is to be scored in. The regional champion is the pilot with the best 6 flights originating in that region. (For example to win the SK/MB region the pilot with the best scoring 6 flights originating from Saskatchewan or Manitoba wins).

13.CONTROL, COMPLAINTS
13.1 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 and be made available on request. (until November 16th of the current competition year) .
13.2 Flights and scores will be accepted as final if no complaints have been filed against them within 4 weeks after the corresponding weekly deadline.
13.3 Deadline for complaints against flights made after September 15th will be October 17th.
13.4 Complaints are handled by the competition committee. All complaints must be filed by email to (contactcas@netscape.net).
13.5 Decisions by the competition committee are final. Legal actions are excluded.

14. FINAL SCORES
14.1 After the competition period and with no pending complaints the competition committee will publish the FINAL SCORES on www.sac.ca/cas/cdnc/cdnc.html  

15. PRIZES
15.1 A trophy shall be awarded to the CDNC champion at the SAC Annual General Meeting
15.2 An award shall be made to the winners in the Novice, Junior, Senior, Club and regional categories. Appendix B: Index-List DAeC 2001 extended through CAS/SAC Sporting Committee with gliders flown in Canada. Base for missing gliders should be the US/Canada handicap list for gliders not included in the DAeC index list. For inclusion of your glider if not included in the DAEC index list please send an email with description of the glider(make, model, version) to (contactcas@netscape.net).

DAeC Index List