Handicap Distance Tasks

At 05:43 31 January 2016, Andy Blackburn wrote:
Scoring seems like a significant issue - presumably you set up a nominal
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stance and just score off of raw time no matter what handicapped distance
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as flown. I'm guessing Winscore would have trouble with variable task
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hs with dynamically created waypoints for each task for each pilot, so
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d have to assume people flew their assigned task on an honor system - or
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a lot of manual checking. Landouts would also would require manual work.

Unless the software that sets up the task can also read the IGC files and
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core the flights?=20

9B

Hi Andy

Scoring is actually easy. For pilots that complete their task, it is just a
matter of comparing times. The same as a single class competition.

For land outs there is a compromise to be made. Fast gliders that land out
near the finish (radiused back) get a small disadvantage but if they land
out early get a small bonus. In DHTs less gliders land out.

The software that I created adds the individual task data into the evidence
so that it can be easily and automatically scored using See You. I see no
reason that other scoring software could not be easily modified to compare
the flight to the task read from the file.

Jim