Complaint
Class PF1 Task 10: Technical Complaint.
Submitted
8 Aug 2009 12:21 CET by
Mark Ingham GBR
Director's response
Denied at 8 Aug 2009 12:03 CET
The scoring formula for this task has remained utterly unchanged since it was included in the 1997 WAG task catalogue by the French people who were going to run the competition, but backed out at the last minute. These rules went on to constitute the core of the rules you see today in FAI S10 and explains why you see things like nBp in formulas, which is an abbreviation of Nombre Balises Pilote.
I believe the WMC 2009 scoring system is calculating this task correctly as it is described in the task brief and the task catalogue.
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In response to your answer (pasted above)
We would like to point out that this slow/fast task was actually introduced at the CIMA meeting in Nov 2005 ( by yourself) and was first used at the European 2006 championships in Spain.
This is a variant of the original slow/fast that you are refering to in which a penalty on 1 leg would result in a zero in the speed range part.
Therefore, we beleive we are right to argue the point that when the leg is penalised ( whether 50% or 100%) then the speed range should be computed using penalised leg scores only.
Regards