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Does an elapsed time task have a start gate? #40

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philderbeast opened this issue Jan 4, 2019 · 1 comment

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philderbeast commented Jan 4, 2019

Does an elapsed time task have a start gate? Is it a kind of race task or a third kind of task?

https://github.com/BlockScope/CIVL-GAP/blob/51af045ad52db1220172f4331a6b9267adf17296/sec-task-setting.tex#L189-L197

3.4 Start of a Task
3.4.1 General
Starts may be either Air or Ground Starts and may be either a single start time (Race to Goal) or a number of start periods (Elapsed Time Speed Run).

SOURCE: FAI Sporting Code, Section 7A - 1st May 2018, page 16.

In section 6.1.1 Race Task of GAP:

https://github.com/BlockScope/CIVL-GAP/blob/51af045ad52db1220172f4331a6b9267adf17296/sec-task-setting.tex#L25

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philderbeast commented Jan 4, 2019

As far as FS is concerned, the difference between an elapsed time task and a race to goal task is that the later has start gates.

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