(Jonathan Gere) wrote in message . com...
It did not count for a finish, because you didn't announce it on the
radio. If you did call a finish, you are done after one lap and can't
go on later. I'm not speaking of what WinScore will say, only of what
the rules require. It is unambiguous that S's and F's "shall" be
announced on the radio. Maybe it can be a finish, but you take a
penalty for not announcing.

Disagree, the finish announcement is purely a 'heads up, I'm here'
call. I don't recall seeing a rule about penalties for not calling a
finish. I suppose that a safety issue could be raised if a pilot
fails to announce and is in the middle of a finish gaggle, but that's
an operational, and not scoring issue.



Finish announcements are, IMHO, purely for safety and operations.
Scoring is done by validating your landing card claim with the IGC
log.

I think they also prevent pilots from having multiple starts and
finishes in play simultaneously.


IF a pilot chooses to go around twice without landing after the first
(announced or stealthy) finish, then he is at risk of getting distance
points if he lands out or starts the engine on the second attempt.
Making a landing and officially observed takeoff, allows him to use
the first flight if the second attempt ends with a landout.

agreed, but do you think he has the option of claiming either one or
the combination of the two attempts if he goes around twice in one
flight?

A start call, on the other hand, if required, must be made after each
start. It is up to the scorer to correlate the start calls with start
times to ensure it was done.

I don't beleive that making a start call after completing the task
will invalidate it. Again, this call is designed to provide some
feedback to other competitors that glider XX has recently started. In
the old days, one would just listen to the gate freq for this. Adding
a penalty for not making the call is just to force all competitors to
be out in the open about when they started. If the rules designers
had intended for this call to 'reset' the flight, then it would have
been spelled out plainly.


-Tom