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FS 1.2.5 is out, fixed #109.

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FS 1.2.2 (just released) has GAP2000, GAP2002, OZGAP2005, GAP2007 (as before), and PWC2007 scoring formulas.

Using GAP2007, the fsdb file will be backwards compatible with FS 1.1.x.

Using any of the other formulas, one need to edit the fsdb file manually in order to open the task from FS 1.1.x as FS 1.1.x does not know of any other formula id than “GAP2007”.

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Hi Durval,

Wanted to have a look but the link does not work now.

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Will look into the whole HELP deal.

One thing will be to have links to the relevant web-page at fs.fai.org.

Have done that now with the scoring formula dialogs.

Much easier to keep updated and correct.

1.2.2 is just released. It is a result of having used 1.2.1 in two comps here in Norway in the last few weeks (not by me, I was just a participant and fly on the wall to see how non-pc-geeks handle it…).

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A quick reply to parts of it: Bonus for leading to turnpoints (as Gerolf suggested in Mexico) will possible soon.

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(got way too good weather right now to do much work or FS stuff so not much will happen until over the weekend – have to do some flying and run a norwegian league comp – had one last weekend with 2 tasks and 50 pilots – FS worked fine (not me doing the scoring)).

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It applies to any comp, but at the moment I believe there is a requirement in section 7 for cat 1 comps to use RACE for scoring the competition. I suppose if the organiser of a cat 1 comp want to use something other than RACE for generating the results they will have to talk to CIVL about it…

So the short answer is that in cat 2 comps, use FS if you like and send in the results as described above.

Also, if the official result for the cat. 2 comp is using some sort of filter, please make that clear in the mail and include a result file with the actual overall results, otherwise Paula in CIVL will not know they are generated.

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FS 1.2.1 is now fixed and should work with checking tracklogs too.

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In FS 1.2.x there will be simplified scoring formulas pretty much as you suggest.

Have located the bug in 1.2.1 now and will have a fix on monday.

Anyhow if you start FS 1.2.1 you will see that you can select GAP2007 and PWC2007.
Here there will be more selections.

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For those not liking the whole idea of letting pilots starting early but do think it is very harsh to punish pilots being a couple of seconds early on the startgate by giving them distance only to the SS tp:

Set the (first) startgate to a time 1 minute after the open time of the SS turnpoint and leave Jump the gun of (value = 0).
This way anyone starting in the 1 minute interval will get points for the distance they fly but not any points for finishing the speedsection.

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Also worth noting is that if one do not use jump the gun (ie it has a value of 0) then if open time of SS tp is earlier than the first startgate any pilot starting in this periode will get distance points but not any other points.

Only when having first startgate at same time as open time of SS tp will a pilot starting early get distance to the SS tp only.

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Also, change the open time of the turnpoints following the SS turnpoint to 13:20 as well.
Otherwise the pilots jumping the gun might be too early at the next one too ….

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It was an error in finding end of speedsection ranking where one got different rank with same ES time.

This caused error when calculating Arrival position points for pilots having same ES time (very unlikely that it happens but you guys stumbled over it ;-).

Fixed in FS 1.1.6. See http://fs.fai.org/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/ticket/79

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Arrival time points is something that originally was used in OzGAP2005.
There it is not used in combination with Leading points.
OzGAP2005 use
– Distance points
– Time points
– Arrival time points

In GAP2007 one has the option to combine the two (as well as a other combinations of … points).

Hover the mouse over the scoring params part of the task window and a descr. on how to achieve the various GAP versions should pop up.

The points set aside for arrival should be the same regardless of selecting “Arrival position points” or “Arrival time points”.
The only difference is how they are handed out.

Here is the actual code for “Arrival time points”:
x = Math.Round(
Math.Pow(
1 + (2.0 / 3.0) * (sp.First_finish_time.Utc_time - p.Result.Finished_ss.Utc_time).TotalHours
, 3)
, 4, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero);
if (x < 0) x = 0;
arrival_points = x * sp.Available_points_arrival;

and this is for “Arrival position points”:
x = 1 - (p.Result.Finished_ss_rank - 1.0) / sp.No_of_pilots_reaching_ES;
x = 0.2 + 0.037 * x + 0.13 * Math.Pow(x, 2) + 0.633 * Math.Pow(x, 3);
arrival_points = x * sp.Available_points_arrival;

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FS does allow tied places as far as I am aware of.

If the FsFlightData element of two pilots in the same task in the fsdb file has the same distance (or time) then the scoring formula module will give both the same points in the FsResult element.

If you have a fsdb file where this is not the case, pls send it to me.

I have done a couple of tests now using same tracklog with two different ids (pilots) and the two pilots do get the same distance and also the same points and a tie in the task result report.

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The following should be sent to FAI:
– the fsdb file
– the waypoint file
– all tracklog files

Send in a zip with the folder where you have the fsdb file, the wpt file and the subfolders holding all the tracklogs.

Recommended way of setting up a folder structure in FS would be:
“c:…MyComp”
“c:…MyCompMyComp.fsdb”
“c:…MyCompMyComp.wpt”
“c:…comp20080312*.kml”
“c:…comp20080313*.kml”
…
or
“c:…MyComptask1*.kml”
“c:…MyComptask2*.kml”

In the above case make a zip of
“c:…MyComp”
and send to FAI.

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