TASK 6

Up - down - Precision landing

Objective

To climb to a height of pilot choice, switch off the engine and glide to a precision landing as fast as possible.

Description

Free take off.

Pilots wait for their start slot by circling the spot in a clockwise direction, but not closer than 100m from the spot.

When the pilot’s start number s displayed, the pilot should start the task on his next circuit.

A “kicking stick” is positioned near to the precision landing target.  The pilot kicks the stick to start the clock.

[Timing starts]

  The pilot climbs to a height of pilot choice (NOT going outside of the other circling pilots) and cuts his engine.

[Split 1]

The engine must be off for at least 30* seconds before the pilot touches the ground as near as possible to the centre of a 10m radius target. 

The clock stops when the pilot touches.

[Timing stops]

 Pilot time is corrected with a time bonus or penalty depending on pilot's landing performance.

Special rules

-           The pilot may only have 3 attempts at kicking the stick.

-           5* seconds are subtracted from the pilot’s time if the first touch is on a football at the centre of the target.

-           10* seconds are added to the pilot's time for every whole second less than 30 seconds between engine stop [split 1] and first touch.

-           1* second is added to the pilot's time for every whole 5*cm of distance from the furthest point of first touch to the centre of the target. (Max 5m* [100 sec]*).

-           30* seconds are added to the pilot's time for falling over on landing.

Scoring

Pilot score = 

Where:

Tp = Pilot time between kicking stick and first touch including any landing bonus or penalty.

TpMin = Shortest time between kicking stick and first touch including any landing bonus or penalty.

* = Numbers may be varied by director at Pilot briefing.