Complaint

Crew 208 has been applied 20% for running out of the launch deck.

When the crew came to launch, the deck was full of paramotors prepared for launch, and which not seemed to actually do it. The crew has put their paraglider on the right side of the deck, and being aware that paraglider might run out of the deck during launch asked marshal for permission, and got it. In fact many crews has been given the same kind of permission, what has been confirmed by many team leaders during one of the briefings.

After the launch we have seen assistants of other team who went to marshal, and informed that crew run out of the launch deck during launch. Marshal himself didn't noticed it, but they assured him the crew does it, and insist on noticing it in their task reports.

Thus this penalty is extremely unfair, especially that during the same launch assistants of few crews were helping to spread the canopy on the deck, which is forbidden by the rules. Among them was the assistant of the crew that insist on marshal to notice run out of the deck of crew 208.

If the rules shall be respected strictly, then they should be respected the same way for everybody.

Regards
Wojtek Domanski

Director's response

There is evidence to suggest the thesis of your complaint is true, the penalty is therefore removed and the updated scores have been published.