[tim]

Thanks Stein-Tore,

Looks like Forbes is not going to use Mandatory start gates. However, I think it would be useful to be able to manually set a startgate time for an individual pilot without that startgate time being applied to all other pilots starting just after it.

If it was possible to set an individual pilot’s startgate time, then fs wouldn’t need to implement the complications of rules such as the Mandatory Start Gate rule above.

Tim

[tim]

Hi Stein-Tore,

Thanks for your help.

I tried this out. I see I can manually set a start time to force a pilot to one of the preset start gates. Once I manually set a start time it appears to lock in the lead coefficient so I should not force start gates until all the pilots’ track logs have been analysed and the final lead coefficients have been calculated.

Now for the second part of my question. To cope with the difficulties of pilots in the top 20 being excessively late for the mandatory start gate (eg tug breakdowns) the following rule has been proposed.

Currently the penalty for reaching a start gate late is the time by which the pilot is late is added to their elapsed time (which is done simply by using the start gate time as their start time). It is proposed that this penalty be capped at (30 – current rank) minutes for the top 20 pilots. (Pilot 1 has a 29 minute cap, pilot 20 has a 10 minute cap). Outside the top 20, pilots do not have a cap, but do have later start gates.  This cap is to be applied by altering the start time of the pilot and leaving the arrival time as the actual pilot’s arrival time.

Hopefully most of the pilots would not get to their cap. However, if they did we would need to setup a preset start gate for each pilot that did and then ensure that none of the other pilots now accidentally were scored to this new start gate. Is it possible to set a manual start gate for only one pilot.

Tim

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