How can I help with FS?
The FS software is made by pilots for pilots, we do need your help to keep making FS useful and relevant.
- The most important is that you tell us what does not work, or functions you need and think should be part of FS. The best way to do this is to fill out a support ticket. You might want to look at the active tickets first. (Due to spam you need to be registered and signed in to be able to report, sorry for that but it takes 15 seconds to register)
- If you can spare 5 minutes to update the documentation in the Wiki, please do so. If all users spend 5 minutes once a year doing this we will have excellent and up to date docs! Just sign in, and click edit page at the bottom of every Wiki page.
- Be active in the forums, help others – You may receive some help in return!
- Have fun, go fly, keep hang and paragliding alive so we can score future competitions.
Hello ,
Great job with the software , keep it alive !
My name is Dorin Borodescu , and I am the competition officer for IHPA ,(the Irish guys )and I have a problem that i don’t have a clue how to work around !
Last week at the AGM we talk how to encourage pilots to fly comps and not to feel intimidated by the high spec wings , and as well to give them a good feeling of flying safe wings !
So we vote for a “handicap system ” . We vote that EN A will get +10 % , EN B will be 0 , EN C will get -10 %, EN D will get -20% . So pilots will have on their scoring + or – , depends on the wings that they flying !Like that pilots will get equal chances ! All good …but that came to me know and I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SORT THIS OUT , and in less than one month will have the Irish open ( a small comp but important for Ireland ).
PLEASE , can you help me with directions on this matter !?
Fly high in LIFE … in HEART !
Dorin
I saw you made a ticket for your request – that will make it possible to follow it up. Thanks.
Hi Dorin
Thanks for the feedback. 🙂
Right now FS does not support a handicap system. But of course if it’s linear, as you propose, you can easily simulate it with some manual labor, using the penalty feature. That allows you to individually deduct or add a percentage of their score to each pilot. But you’ll have to go through pilot list for each task and do it according to the pilot’s wing.
If you follow through with this, it would be great to hear back about your experience, especially on how pilots reacted to it. There have been several attempts in the past to implement such a handicap system, most prominently at the Ozone Chabre Open – and they were all abandoned eventually due to lack of pilot acceptance.
All the best
Joerg
Thank you , i will work with it before the comp to see how it is working ! If it is , a life saver !!!
I’ll keep you informed after the comp ! This year will have this system as was voted at the AGM , and we want to encourage people to come to comps , regardless of the wing ! The EN D guys ,saw their advantage of o “HOT wing” vanished ….we try to put the fun factor back on flying comps !
Cheers!
Dorin
Hello, I am using the FS to score the task of our competitions and I want to ask, if I can in the overall results of the competition to apply FTV ?
it’s very simple, I just did not look at it, sorry
Hi.
First of all, thanks for your job.
Just a question, is FS still alive?, are you developing the software?
If so, I could help with translation to spanish, if needed (yes, I know, it’s a bt late, but better late than never).
I heard, months ago, FAI was promoting a new scoring software.
Hi,
It’s still beeing developed, Joerg just released the latest version. He might be able to answer how you can help with translations.
The new scoring software has taken some time to become available, not sure what the status is at the moment.
How can I create my formulas?
Hi Alan
Unfortunately, FS does not offer a clean interface that would allow external developers to create their own formula. If you’re interested in taking a look at the code, write to me at joerg dot ewald at volirium dot com. I’ll need your github account name to give you read access to the repository.
Joerg
Hello,
recently a competition took place in Greifenburg (Austria). I was the scorer, but I flew the tasks myself. I happened to notice an oddity on my own track (Konrad Lüders, ID 22), maybe a mistake. I hadn’t reached the goal because I missed the last turning point 20-080. That’s why I only received the kilometer rating. The start time given in the results log was 1:31:10 p.m. As can be seen from the track, I took the second start time after 13:51:10.
That plays a negligible role in the mileage rating, but maybe it does when calculating the leading points? I assume that I get more leading points with the first start time than with the second start time. Maybe that’s why the first start time was taken when evaluating my track?
I deleted the last turn 20-080 from the route as a test. With my track I would have been at the finish line. In this case, the program uses the correct second start time for the evaluation.
However, if there is an error in the evaluation program, this should be eliminated. I am interested in your explanation.
If necessary I will send you the folder with all the data.
Best regards
Konrad Lüders
Dear FS Team,
many thanks for offering this tool and constantly updating it!
Unfortunately I couldn’t register as the website shows no captcha at all (neither in Firefox nor in Edge). Hence, instead of a ticket, I post my question here: How is the task speed shown in the task results table calculated? When dividing the shown distance by the time (ESS time – SSS open time) I get a higher speed (about +2km/h) than the one shown. Happy to provide the fsdb file and results table.
Best
Jonas
Hi,
I am struggling to register as a user because the captcha is not being displayed on the registration page. Also the captcha on the help/contact page is not working. I was hoping to be able to read the wiki but cant because I am not registered/logged in. Is there something else I can do to register?
Cheers
Doug
Sorry for the inconvenience, the site is beeing reworked and the registration has been disabled for some time. Check back in some weeks.