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Class PF1 Task 10: Technical Complaint.
Submitted 8 Aug 2009 10:30 CET by Mark Ingham GBR

The British Team have noticed that the formulas on the spreadsheet for the slow/fast task do not take into account the penalised leg scores when computing the speed differences/ speed range.
Otherwise, for example, a pilot could get zero on the slow leg by "zig zagging" on purpose in order to win the 250 points speed range by a big margin and flattening everyone else`s score.
In the current state the spreadsheet looks like it would use their time as the slowest time.

We would appreciate it if you would look into this matter.

Regards

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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