FAI Free Flight World Cup 2021
| Competition | 2021 Kar-Tel Cup, Pieter de Boer Memorial |
| FAI Jury members | 1. President mgr Vladimir Zvaleny (SVK) 2. Allard van Wallene (NED) 3. Adam Krawiec (POL) |
Advance information | Facebook (Kar-Tel CUP SPZG CUP Pieter de Boer Antoon van Eldik Memorial) and communicated by email to participants |
Schedule of competition | October 9, 5 rounds. Start at 09.00, finish at 16.00 |
Duration of rounds | 80 minutes |
Breaks between rounds | No planned breaks between rounds except for a 20 min. lunch break after round 3. |
Maximum durations in each round | First for F1A,B,C,Q was 240 seconds. For the next 2 rounds flight time was 180 seconds. Rounds 4 and 5: 2 minutes due to high wind speeds. 5 rounds were flown. |
Interruptions and delays | After round 3 a 20 minute break was used to allow competitors to get their free soup and bread offered by the organizers |
Weather and visibility | The morning conditions were cold (1 C) with max. 3 m/s. Temperature rose to 12 C. Sunny all day, no cloud cover. Wind gradually increased to 8 m/s. |
Flight line - changes of position | None |
Number of starting poles | F1A: 11, F1B: 6, F1C,Q, P: 2 |
Number of competitors per pole | Maximum 6 per pole |
Local rules or deviations from Sporting Code | Deviations from the Sporting Code: 5 rounds were used rather than 7 as announced in the invitation. |
Observations on timekeeping | One official time keeper per pole augmented with a competitor second time keeper |
Prize-giving and issue of results - confirm organisers provide results with full names, nationalities and number of juniors | On-field results posted on large manual scoreboard. Full results posted on Facebook and sent as PDF upon request. |
Any incident or accident | The high wind speeds forced the organiser to postpone the F1A and F1B fly off to the next morning. Sunday morning there was still wind making it impossible to fly a 10 minute max as the models would land in the town of Kietzr. It was decided to apply an altimeter fly off with a max of 5 minutes. Third and fourth place tied with 30 meters and they did a second altimeter fly off at the end of the Sunday. |
Protests | No protests |