There are 3 competitions in the F5J EURO 2005
series. The first one is taking place in Slovenia
at the end of the spring, the second on in Slovakia
in the summer and the third one in Hungary
in the autumn.
In each country the competitors will be flying in the 400
and 7-cells categories, with the rules being "local".
The following points are the ground for the
national rules in the countries participating in F5J EURO
2005:
- 10 minute "working time"
- 60 seconds "launch window" for the 400 category,
40 seconds for the 7-cells category
- minimum of 6 competitors per heat if possible, preferrably
8-10
- group scoring for each heat
- one re-launch allowed in the working time
- a spot landing worth 100 points reduced by 5 points for
every further meter
- zero landing points if the model touches the competitor
or their helper on the land
- zero landing points if the working time is overflown
- 30 point penalty if the working time is overflown
- zero flight score if the working time is overflown by more
than 1 minute
- zero flight score if the model loses its part in the flight,
ecxept for collisions and landing
- maximum 1 helper allowed
You can find the original version of the competition
rules valid for 2005 on the following web sites:
The National F5J rules
for Slovenia
The national F5J rules for Slovakia
The National F5J rules for Hungary
The slight differences in the individual
national rules do not alter the spirit of the original thesis.
The've been accepted to enable us to judge what's really important
for the competition and its result, and what is less important.
We suppose that after the complete results of the the first
year of the series we will be able to unify the rules so that
they're beneficial for the further development of this category.
Only the Slovenian rules respect the original thesis to full
extent. There, the "window" for the motor flight
is "open" before starting to measure the gliding
time. That allows us to measure all the significant data for
one competitor with just one stopwatch. At the same time it
is possible to calculate the penalty for overflying the 10
minute working time (in case it's not a correction flight).
If the motor running time is a part of the flight time (as
in Hungarian and Slovak rules) and its beginning is measured
from the moment of releasing the model (not from the start
of the working time), then it is not possible to give the
penalties without using another stopwatch. The Slovak and
Hungarian rules solve this problem by giving the same penalty
of 30 points no matter how overflown the working time is (which
is not very fair).
For the F5J EURO 2005 organization
team: Palo LISHAK (19/12/2004)
Translation : Mgr. Darina Svoradova (London, UK)
