US Soaring Q3 2025 (Jul Aug Sep)
(June 26th, 2025 - Oct. 11th, 2025)

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Tuesday night and Thursday night races,
Everyone is welcome. Fun tasks that run about an hour and fifteen minutes in length.
You must make an account at condor.club and register for this competition. You'll get an email 2hrs before the race with task info.
You'll need the "AA3" scenery.

Join discord dsc.gg/ussoaring for voice chat, flight analysis, or for help with anything.
See condoranalysis.com for post flight analysis and discussion.
See condoranalysis.com for igc files, to replay the race and learn.

18m, 15m, standard are usually flown. Wing loading will be limited to 57kgm2/11.7lbft2 so that the performance of the JS3, V3, and AS33 are equal, fly whichever you want.

This is a 3 month contest covering Jul Aug Sep (26 tasks) that will be followed by Q4 2025 (26 tasks), Q1 2026 (26 tasks), etc.
You don't have to race every race to participate, only the 13 best scores will be used (half of the total).

** NEW FOR Q3 - All starts will be regatta starts, to practice for the upcoming SGP races **

Server launch times:
Tuesday - [5p PT], [6p MT], [7p CT], [8p ET], [12a UTC(wed)]
Thursday - [6p PT], [7p MT], [8p CT], [9p ET], [1a UTC(fri)]


Server launch times are offset by 1 hour (Thursday is 1hr later than Tuesday)
Server join time is 15 minutes.
Start gate is A REGATTA START - with a 7 minute window between jointime ending and the race starting.
Maximum start speed of 92kts (170kmh) applies, time penalties will be applied for start speeds above that.
Finish gates are usually 1,000ft AGL (Condor DDH will be correct) a penalty will be applied at 1pt/meter below that height so you can finish low for a penalty.

Server name is "US Soaring Tuesday/Thursday Race" - this server will only be up during the join period starting at the times above.
Join the multiplayer server at https://www.condorsoaring.com/serverlist/

"Scenery Test" - this server is always up, go here to verify you have the scenery installed and working

If you want to join directly through condor multiplayer and skip the server browser (you should this is easier):
"US Soaring" server ip address is 107.216.40.48:56278
"USS Scenery Test" server ip address is 107.216.40.48:56277
You can add these ip addresses to your condor multiplayer address book

After your flight, you must save the .ftr file and upload it to the "Race Results" tab of that day's competition.
If you failed to save your .ftr file before closing condor it is saved as "LastTrack.ftr" in \Documents\Condor\FlightTracks
Please upload your ftr file even if you landed out.


Use this to help convert time zones
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?pl=1&lid=100,8,5308655,7,6,5&h=100&hf=1

Previous contests:
US Soaring Q3 2023 (Jul Aug Sep) https://www.condor.club/comp/show/204/?id=758
US Soaring Q4 2023 (Oct Nov Dec) https://www.condor.club/comp/show/204/?id=765
US Soaring Q1 2024 (Jan Feb Mar) https://www.condor.club/comp/show/204/?id=781
US Soaring Q2 2024 (Apr May Jun) https://www.condor.club/comp/show/204/?id=794
US Soaring Q3 2024 (Jul Aug Sep) https://www.condor.club/comp/show/204/?id=798
US Soaring Q4 2024 (Oct Nov Dec) https://www.condor.club/comp/show/204/?id=811
US Soaring Q1 2025 (Jan Feb Mar) https://www.condor.club/comp/show/204/?id=826
US Soaring Q2 2025 (Apr May Jun) https://www.condor.club/comp/show/204/?id=845

Organizers:	DavisChappins
Official web site:	Http://dsc.gg/ussoaring
Forum address:	http://dsc.gg/ussoaring
Registration closes on:	October 11th, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Competition per teams:	No
Registration type:	Competition is free Note for non-Premium member: your monthly quota will be decreased, as usual, for each FTR submitted.
Number of training tasks:	0
Number of competition tasks:	26
Scoring type:	1000 points
Additional penalties:	Like in Grand Prix scoring, apply penalties of 5 seconds per kilometer per hour above 170 kilometers per hour at the crossing of the start line and 3 seconds per meter below the minimum safe altitude at the finish line.
Competition selected for ccRating:	ccRating will be issued after each race day provided that the day is valid (in FAI terms) and server logs have been received.
Glider restriction:	None (or defined on a per-task basis)
Competitor's results used for overall scoring:	Only the 13 best results
Allowed tries per race:	1
Crash policy:	Ignore it
Landing out policy:	Ignore it
Missing FTR policy:	Ignore it
Join time:	20 minutes
Time to send FTR:	6 hours
Use time slots (for timezones):	No
Registered competitors:	39

Register now!

Next races
Race	Start date	End date
Competition day #1 (AA3 (Arc Alpin 3))	Friday July 4th, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC	July 4th, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC
Competition day #2 (AA3 (Arc Alpin 3))	Wednesday July 9th, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC	July 9th, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC
Competition day #3 (AA3 (Arc Alpin 3))	Friday July 11th, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC	July 11th, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC