FAI Free Flight World Cup 2022

1. Adam Krawiec (POL)

2. Michal SLYS (POL)

3. Ivan BEZAK (SVK)

Advance information

FAI Calendar, e-mail; http://freefligt-krosno.vxm.pl/, Facebook

Schedule of competition

Round 1: 08:00-09:15, Round 2: 9:20-10:35, Round 3: 10:40-11:50, Round 4: 11:55-13:05, Round 5:13:10-14:20.
Fly Off F1C: 17:10, Fly Off F1B: 17:20, Fly Off F1A: 17:40
Time schedule and all breaks were announced on megaphone, and written on competition information board.

Duration of rounds

1-2 Round 75minutes, 3-5 Round 70 minutes

Breaks between rounds

5 minutes

Maximum durations in each round

Round 1: 240sec, Rounds 2-5: 180sec. Fly Offs: F1A, F1B: 120sec + altitude, F1C: 180sec + altitude

Interruptions and delays

No

Weather and visibility

Good weather conditions, sunny, good visibility, temperature 5-16°C, wind 3-6 m/s SW-NW.

Flight line - changes of position

Contestants were assigned to a fixed starting pole.

Number of starting poles

F1A: 6, F1B: 2, F1C: 2, F1Q:2

Number of competitors per pole

Usually 4, up to 5 in some poles.

Local rules or deviations from Sporting Code

Timekeeping between competitors on each starting pole (announced in advance).

Observations on timekeeping

There were two stopwatches and binoculars at each start pole. Additional 4 timekeepers were provided by organizer for control self-timekeeping.

Prize-giving and issue of results - confirm organisers provide results with full names, nationalities and number of juniors

Results continuously updated on score-board.
Prize-giving in evening on field after last fly off. Results posted on www and additionally send by email for request.

Any incident or accident

According to weather forecasts, the starting place has been moved for fly offs flights. Due to the incoming rain and a thundercloud, the expected direction of flight did not come true and FOs had to be carried for 2minutes plus altitude (3min in F1C, but it was dangerously close to the end of the field and has been shortened for the rest).
Some flyers could borrow a certified altimeter from other contestants and finally all flyers could be equipped with an altimeter for flyoffs.
After each of the fly offs, the altimeters were presented to the jury, which read the data and established the height of the models at the 2 (3 in F1C) minutes max. Some altimeters showed problems with reading the data, some readings were possible the first time, but others were tried several times on several Android devices to be successful.
One altimeter from F1A fly off (Thomas Weimer GER, new version of device) showed a problem with the reading - it did not show full flight (only first 110sec of gliding). The next readings showed that it was empty, despite the fact that its LED was blinking red. The device was sent back to the manufacturer (Allard van Wallene) for reading – in the FAI sporting code is not defined the time frame for presenting data from altimeter. 4 days after the competition, the height result was announced and it is 65m - the jury decided to accept this result. The initial 110sec fragment in both graph (read at the competition and recovered by the device manufacturer) is 100% identical. Other competitor on the current 3rd place Donatas Pampikas (LTU) have also 65m altitude in fly off - due to the inability to resolve that by another additional flight, it was considered to be a tie.

Protests

None