The competition will run from November 1st 2008 through to April 30th 2009 (6 rounds), and pilots may fly AT ANY TIME during the month. Please express interest in taking part by adding your name to the separate topic headed HEIGHT LIMITED POSTAL ENTRIES. Please ensure that you provide your email address, your location and your REAL name.

All results should be sent directly to Ian Cowe – email iacowe@aol.com , and must be headed HEIGHT LIMITED RESULTS. Results may also be posted to the NOVEMBER HEIGHT LIMITED POSTAL RESULTS TOPIC. The latest time for submission is 10pm on the last day of each month. (Local time.)

Rules summary:
No entry fee is required. Entrants are permitted ONE attempt per calendar month. 3 consecutive flights must be made within a 3-hour time slot and only 1 attempt at each flight is allowed.
A NAMED timekeeper, who can be anybody capable of operating a stopwatch, must time each flight! If a timekeeper is not available, then the competitor may time their own flight - but in such cases the submitted scores must be backed up with the 3 flight logs. Flight time is measured from the moment the model leaves the hands of the launcher under the pull of the electric drive system. Motor run time must be more than 20 seconds but less than 35 seconds for the flight to count. Each flight is to a 10 minute maximum, and the actual flight time in seconds is taken as the score for that flight. Flights in excess of 10 minutes will be penalised by the deduction of 1 point per second of excess flight time up to 10 minutes 30 seconds. Flights in excess of 10 minutes 30 seconds will score zero. A landing bonus will be allocated, by measuring the distance from a fixed landing spot to the nose of the model in “normal” paces of not more than 1 metre. The number of paces (metres) that the model’s nose is from the “spot” is then deducted from 50 to provide the landing bonus figure. (e.g. a landing 10 metres from the spot gains a landing bonus of 50 – 10 = 40 points). Any landing more than 50 metres from the spot scores ZERO landing bonus, but the flight time stands.After 3 rounds have been completed each competitor’s lowest scores will be dropped. This means that only the best 5 from 6 possible scores will counted at the close of the competition on 30th April 2009.Prizes for this event will be presented at the first UK eSoaring League event in May 2008 or posted to the winner(s), if they are unable to attend.

Notes:
Once you have started you must complete all 3 flights, without any non-competition flights in-between. You may however alternate your flights with other flyers during the 3-hour window.