Travel by Glider

1. General Rules

1.1 Objective

Promotion of cross-country soaring and soaring in general. Promotion of cultural exchange.

1.2 Organizer

WeGlide UG (haftungsbeschränkt).

1.3. Time and Location

The flight is scored in the country and region to which the takeoff airport of the first flight belongs.
Last scoring day is the 30th of September. The following season starts on the 1st of October. The contest is carried out decentralized.

1.4 Participants

Every glider pilot worldwide is entitled to participate. Participants are individual pilots or two-pilot teams for two-seaters. By registering with WeGlide, participants agree to the competition rules. By uploading a flight, the participant agrees to the publication of his flight data and files by WeGlide. The User Agreement applies for all uploaded data.

1.5 Validity of Score

The scoring of a flight becomes final 14 days after its registration if no protests against the flight have been lodged. Participants are required to keep the IGC files until one month after the end of the current scoring period.

1.6 Registration

Participants must register with the provided sign-up form. With their registration the participants declare their acceptance of the conditions of participation.

2 Scoring

The winner in each scoring year is the participant who has flown the highest scoring travel.

All gliders, including those with a retractable engine or front electrical engine are scored in one class. Each participant can register any number of flights for evaluation.

For flights with two-seaters, only the pilot counts as a participant. All flights are scored according to the currently valid index of their aircraft on the DAeC index list.

2.1 Individual

Even though all gliders are scored in one class, each flight belongs to the scoring class in which the flown aircraft is classified by the DAeC index list.

Filters can be applied to determine the winner in the following classes:

• Open
• 18m
• 15m
• Standard
• Club
• Two-Seater

2.1.1 Junior Scoring

A flight is also scored in the junior ranking if the 25th birthday of the pilot and potentially the copilot lies in the applicable calendar year or he is younger. If only the name of a copilot is entered, the flight is not scored in the junior ranking.

2.1.2 Women Scoring

A flight is also scored in the women ranking if the pilot and potentially the copilot are female. If only the name of a copilot is entered, the flight is not scored in the women ranking.

3 Flight Documentation and Entry

3.1 Documentation

The documentation of the flights is exclusively possible with approved GNSS flight recorders. Flight recorders can either be

• IGC approved
• WeGlide approved

The list of approved flight recorders can be found here.

For the documentation of flights for league and speed scoring, IGC-approved flight recorders are required. The IGC file must have a valid signature (G record).

3.2 Errors

The error codes apply. Gaps in logging intervals must not exceed 120 seconds. Flights that are performed with motorized gliders, have to be documented with one of the sensors specified here. For front electric sustainers (FES), the engine run must be recorded by a sensor specified here.

3.3 Flight entry

Each flight must be entered online earlier than noon 12:00 PM local time two days after the day of the flight landing. If no landing was recorded, this applies to the last recorded fix. With the flight entry, the pilot confirms the correctness of the details given.

4 Scoring

4.1 General

Travels are detected automatically based on the uploaded flights. For a flight to be considered as part of the travel, it must not land on the airfield where it has taken off. For two consecutive flights to be counted towards the same travel, the following points must be fulfilled:

• The flights must not be on the same day
• The flights must be uploaded for the same user
• There must not be more than four days without flying between the two flights.
• The distance between the landing point of the first flight and the takeoff point of the second flight must not be greater than 100km
• The distance between the takeoff point of the first flight and the takeoff point of the second flight must be greater than 50km

4.2 Scoring

The scores of individual days are added up. The score of an indiviudal day is either:

4.2.1 Out

A start point and a finish point are chosen from the flight path such that

• the distance from the start point to the finish point is maximized
• the start altitude is no more than 1000m above the finish altitude

This distance is scored with 1.0 raw points per km.

4.2.1 Declaration

The distance of the declaration score multiplied by 1.3 if a straight distance (goal) flight has been declared and achieved

4.3 Bonus

Bonus points are awarded to incentivize trips as far away from the launch site as possible. Bonus points are equal to the maximum straight distance in kilometers between two individual points in the travel.

4.4 Points

The raw points are obtained by adding up the one-leg-distance of the individual days and adding the bonus points. To compensate for the differences in glider performance, the raw points are multiplied by 100 and divided by the weighted DMSt index for the corresponding aircraft. The result is rounded to two digits and is the final score for the flight.

5 Conditions of Participation

Participants of contests organized by WeGlide must not violate any aviation regulations with their flights. Appropriate airspace clearances must be obtained from the competent authority where required. If WeGlide becomes aware that the above terms were violated, WeGlide reserves the right to nullify the results of a flight.