Author: Joerg Ewald

FS 2013, this year’s edition of the CIVL scoring software for paragliding and hang-gliding cross-country competitions, has been released and is available from the FS 2013 download page: Unlike previous editions, FS 2013 comes only with the most recent versions of both CIVL’s and the PWCA’s official scoring formulas: GAP2013 and PWC2013. If older versions…

I’m sorry it took me so long, but finally, I got around to writing up the results from the FS survey we conducted this spring. You can download it from here: FS_Survey_Summary

This was discovered during the Belgian Paragliding Open 2012, thanks guys for bringing it to our attention: There is currently an error in FS where in stopped tasks, the stop time is not considered for calculating leading points. The end is determined by the last pilot to land. This does usually  not make such a…

Some of you will have noticed that since summer 2011, FS comes with an additional scoring formula: GAP2011. Unfortunately, there is no documentation around that explains what changes were made from GAP2008 to GAP2011. We’re working on improving the documentation for FS, which includes a complete explanation of the current GAP implementation, but until we’re…

A new team of developers started to work on FS, CIVL’s scoring software. We already have some ideas on where we want to go with that program, but of course the most important input for this comes from the people who actually use it: The competition score keepers. So we created a short survey, and…