GPS Position Report Form

CIA COMPETITION OPERATION HANDBOOK
10.13 ASSISTANCE
This rule is more or less superfluous because handling lines or pushing the basket would
constitute a Ground Contact and should be penalised as a GC. What happens now and
then is that a competitor forgets his markers or radio etc. In that case sometimes the
competitor tries to fly low over a road and the crew throws them to him. As long as there is
no physical contact, this should be tolerated.
10.14 AIR LAW
What is said under DRIVING also applies here, that the director is not a law enforcement
officer. However infringements that affect safety and/or constitute competition advantage
should be followed up upon. The two major stumbling blocks are not flying VFR and
abusing altitude limits (Blue PZs).
The GPSs deliver means to more objectively determine who flew in the clouds, provided
there is a common cloud base, and in any case altitude infringements of Blue PZs.
Generally the following procedure for determining penalties in conjunction with altitude
limits is suggested.
For every track point, the altitude above limit is determined.
Penalties should be given based on the time and altitude above the limit.
For each ft/meter and second, points should be calculated with a penalty factor (penalty
per (ft/meter x seconds))
The total penalty is the sum of all calculated track point penalties and should be rounded
to the next full ten points. The following variables should be considered in the calculations:
• Time interval of track points.
• Penalty factor.
In March 2006 the SWG agreed that the warning zone will no longer be used and
penalties will be applied with a penalty factor of [1pt/1ft/1sec.]/100.
In the following example the penalty would be 190points
Example: Altitude limit is 6000 (1829m)
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