Flare Timing

Flare Timing will show a pilot's competition score in detail but is currently a work in progress.

The official scoring program for hang gliding and paragliding competitions is FS. Its principal output for a competition task is an html table of pilot scores. In addition to the day's scores, there are columns in this table for the time on course, the distance flown and for the breakdown of the scored points among distance points, lead points, time points and arrival points.

Looking for examples? There is a good archive of past Forbes Flatlands competition results, for instance results for task 1 of the 19th World Hang Gliding Champs.

Commission Internationale de Vol Libre (CIVL - Hang Gliding and Paragliding Commission) is an Air Sport Commission (ASC) of the Fédération Internationale Aéronautique (FAI). CIVL produce FS. It is the work of paid and volunteer developers.

The scoring method is well documented. Principal documents are;

• Sporting Code Section 7A - Annex GAP
  • The definitive guide produced and maintained by CIVL.
• GAP 2002
  • A much shorter and less formal guide that is a good first read to gain an understanding of why GAP is needed and how it works.

Flare Timing provides a reference implementation of GAP and shows the working of how a pilot's score is calculated.

Usage

See the separate discussion of building and testing.

With an FS comp file and related track logs as inputs, score the comp;

1. Extract the inputs with extract-input.
2. Trace the shortest path to fly a task with task-length.
3. Find pairs of fixes crossing over zones with cross-zone.
4. Interpolate between crossing fixes for the time and place where a track tags a zone with tag-zone.
5. Index fixes from the time of first crossing with align-time.
6. Discard fixes that get further from goal and note leading area with discard-further.
7. Mask a task over its tracklogs with mask-track.
8. Group and count land outs with land-out.
9. Score the competition with gap-point.

Documentation is available online at flare-timing.readthedocs.io and there's a worked example too.

License

Copyright Phil de Joux 2017-2018

This software is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, you can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.