FAI Free Flight World Cup 2007
| Competition | ISTANBUL FREE FLIGHT CUP 2007 |
| FAI Jury members | 1. Nese YALCINKAYA, TURKEY (President) 2. Victor STAMOV, UKRAINE 3. Damjan ZULIC, SLOVENIA |
Advance information | Published well in advance on the net through CIAM and web site www.turkey-ff.info |
Schedule of competition | April, 22-2007, Start time: 08:00. |
Duration of rounds | 55 minutes |
Breaks between rounds | 5 minutes, 1 hour break after 4th round |
Maximum durations in each round | 240 seconds for the first round, 180 seconds for the other rounds. |
Interruptions and delays | After the 4th round, because of the increasing wind, the competitions delayed until 19:30. At 19:30, F1A and F1C fliers decided to accept the current scores as the final classification. F1B fliers requested to fly fly-off round at next day morning. The Jury accepted the proposal of the competitors. |
Weather and visibility | The visibility was very good. The temperature was between 150C and 220C. In the first four rounds, the wind was very low. After the 4th round, the winds suddenly increased and exceed 8 m/s. The next day morning, in the F1B fly-off, the weather conditions were excellent. |
Flight line - changes of position | None, 3km+ all directions |
Number of starting poles | For F1A – 5, for F1B – 5, for F1C – 2 |
Number of competitors per pole | 3 |
Local rules or deviations from Sporting Code | 240 sec. flight time for F1A in the 1st round |
Observations on timekeeping | There was a fixed 1 Timekeeper in each starting pole with binocular. There were some moving additional time keepers keeping time as a second time-keeper. |
Prize-giving and issue of results - confirm organisers provide results with full names, nationalities and number of juniors | First 3 places in each category were awarded with very high quality plaques. Listings of the updated results with were sticked on the time-table after the begining of the next round and result listings for each category were available at the prize-giving, delivered by e-mail next days and published on web. |
Any incident or accident | None |
Protests | None |