US Soaring Q1 2024 (Jan Feb Mar)
(Jan. 1st, 2024 - April 2nd, 2024)
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New for Q4 2024 Jan Feb Mar is a start speed penalty. You will be penalized 5 seconds for every kmh over 170 kmh (5 seconds for every 0.54kt over 92kts).
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Tuesday night and Thursday night races,
Everyone is welcome. Fun tasks that run about an hour 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 "AA2" scenery.
Join discord
https://discord.gg/QDzqNw4aXv for voice chat or for help.
This is a 3 month contest covering Jan Feb Mar (26 tasks) that will be followed by Q2 2024 (26 tasks), Q3 2024 (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).
Server launch times:
Tuesday - [5p PT], [6p MT], [7p CT], [8p ET], [1a UTC(wed)]
Thursday - [6p PT], [7p MT], [8p CT], [9p ET], [2a 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 open for 10 minutes.
Server name is "US Soaring" - 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/ "USS 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:
"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 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
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| Organizers: |
DavisChappins 
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| Official web site: |
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| Forum address: |
https://discord.gg/QDzqNw4aXv |
| Registration closes on: |
April 2nd, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC
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| Competition per teams: |
No
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| Registration type: |
Competition is free
Note for non-Premium member: your monthly quota will be decreased, as usual, for each FTR submitted.
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| Number of training tasks: |
0
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| Number of competition tasks: |
26
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| Scoring type: |
1000 points
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Glider restriction: |
None (or defined on a per-task basis)
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| Competitor's results used for overall scoring: |
Only the 11 best results
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| Allowed tries per race: |
1
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| Crash policy: |
Ignore it
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| Landing out policy: |
Ignore it
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| Missing FTR policy: |
Ignore it
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| Join time: |
15 minutes
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| Time to send FTR: |
2 hours
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| Use time slots (for timezones): |
No
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| Registered competitors: |
153
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Registration is now closed!
