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Donny Gardner

Corryong Cup 2024 · Task 2 (Floater) (Wed, 10 Jan 2024) · floater · ranked #1 · times in Australia/Melbourne (GMT+11)

Officially: 1st · 489 pts (AirScore)

Scores computed · FAI S7F 2026

Landed out at 27.3 km — 497.8 points

Top of the class with everything that was winnable: nobody reached the end of the speed section, so the task carried no time or arrival points (FAI S7F §11) and only 497.8 of the day's 553.1 could be won — all of it yours.

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The flight

What the tracklog shows, and which crossings scored.

How this works

Crossed the start cylinder boundary 7 times. The scored start is the latest crossing from which the flight still makes its best run along the course — re-starting supersedes an earlier start, while simply flying back through the cylinder later in the task changes nothing.
The 14:57:00 crossing is the scored start. By the 15:25:54 crossing the flight had already reached TP3 (KANGCK), so treating that as a re-start would mean flying the course again from there — a shorter, later run that scores less.

Day quality — points on offer

Task validity 55.31% of a perfect day, so 553.1 of 1000 points were available.

How this works

Launch validity — the day counts for less if much of the field never got into the air.100%

8 pilots flew out of 8 present. Nominal launch is 96%, so launch validity is full once 8 pilots are in the air.

Distance validity — the day counts for less if the field as a whole did not get far.55.31%

Measured against a 20.0 km nominal distance, a 30% nominal goal and a 5.0 km minimum distance. The field flew 6.0 km past the minimum on average, with a best of 27.3 km.

How far the field got — the spread distance validity is computed from, one dot per pilot. 8 pilots flew; you flew 27.3 km, further than 7 of them. The day averaged 6.0 km past the 5.0 km minimum, against a 20.0 km nominal distance.
Time validity — the day counts for less if the fastest pilot got round much quicker than the task was meant to take.100%

Nobody completed the speed section, so the spec compares distance instead: the best distance of 27.3 km against the 20.0 km nominal distance.

Points on offer for the day553.1 pts

1000 × 1.00 × 0.5531 × 1.00 = 553.1

Nobody reached the end of the speed section, so this task offered no time or arrival points at all (FAI S7F §11).497.8 pts

Only distance and leading points could be won: 497.8 + 0 = 497.8 of the 553.1 the day was worth. The rest is not shared out to the other components — the specification leaves it unawarded.

Split between the components: 0 of 8 pilots made goal — a goal ratio of 0.00

distance 497.8 · time 0

The share each component takes of the day

distance 90.0% · time 0.0%

Leading weight follows the FAI S7F 2026 §11 formula: 18% of the non-distance weight (the task's Leading Time Ratio) goes to leading.

Distance points

497.8 of 497.8 pts

Furthest of 8

How this works

Task distance30.0 km

The optimized task line — the shortest legal way round the turnpoints.

Scored distance27.3 km

Measured along the optimized task line, up to the furthest point on course.

Best distance in class27.3 km
Linear half — half the available points scale with your share of the best distance248.9 pts

0.5 × (27.3 km ÷ 27.3 km) × 497.8 = 248.9

Difficulty half — rewards flying past stretches where many pilots landed248.9 pts

The difficulty curve is built from where the whole field landed out (FAI S7F §12.1.1).

The curve is the distance-points formula, half of it built from where the field landed out (FAI S7F §12.1.1) — every dot is a pilot, sitting exactly on it. Its steepest stretches are the ones fewest pilots got past, so flying through one is worth more than the same distance somewhere easy. You flew 27.3 km of the class best 27.3 km, worth 497.8 of 497.8.

Time points

0 pts

How this works

Nobody in this class reached the end of the speed section, so the task offered no time points to anyone (FAI S7F §11). Distance and leading points were all that could be won.

Total

497.8 of 553.1 pts

How this works

Distance + time + leading + arrival, minus penalties497.8 pts

round(497.8 + 0.0, 1 dp) = 497.8

The points left on the day

Nobody out-scored you — so this compares your 497.8 against the 497.8 this task actually put on offer.

How this works

Distancefull points

you 497.8 of 497.8 on offer

Left on the day−55.3 pts

55.3 of the 553.1 was never on offer to anyone: nobody reached the end of the speed section, so the task carried no time or arrival points (FAI S7F §11). You took all 497.8 that could be won.