Championnat de France des Clubs FFVP

1 General Rules

1.1 Goal of the Championnat de France des Clubs FFVP

The goal of the Championnat de France des Clubs FFVP is to promote long-distance soaring and weekend speed flights in France.

1.2 Organizer

Organizer is the Fédération Française de Vol en Planeur (FFVP).

1.3 Date and place of the championship

The Championnat de France des Clubs FFVP is carried out decentrally. The scoring period are all weekends between the end of April and the end of August. Each weekend forms a round.

1.4 Clubs and participants

Participating clubs are allbe gliding clubs that are members of the FFVP. Participants are glider pilots who have subscribed an annual FFVP licences for the season. Participants may only register for one participating club in a season, the one that has delivered the annual FFVP licence. With the first reported flight, the participants determine for which club they are participating in this evaluation period.

1.5 Rules

The participants are responsible for the duty of care for compliance with official regulations, as well as the other regulations and recommendations applicable to gliding.

The distance calculation is based on the WGS84 ellipsoid (Vincenty’s formula). Only flights that take off from a French airfield are considered in the Championnat de France des Clubs. The reports about competition flights must be submitted online via the online platform weglide.org.

1.6 Enrollment for championship

The first submitted flight for evaluation of a participant counts as registration for the championship. The participant thereby recognizes the rules of the Championnat de France des Clubs FFVP to the exclusion of legal recourse. With the application for evaluation, the collection, processing and use of the participant's personal data takes place within the framework of the evaluation and publication of the flight data. The data protection declaration that can be viewed on the WeGlide platform applies.

1.7 Violations

Participating clubs and people who try to gain advantages in the evaluation through false information or unfair methods can be disqualified from the Championnat de France des Clubs FFVP. In the event of deliberate violations of the rules, a ban of 5 years will be imposed and the name of the person / association concerned will be published. In the event of repetition, the ban is 10 years. In these cases, the regional associations reserve the right to take further measures.

1.8 Objection

Objections to evaluations are to be addressed to the FFVP. An objection must be made no later than 48 hours after the flight has been rated. A decision on an objection should be made promptly, but no later than October 10th after the end of the evaluation period.

1.9 Award ceremony

The announcement and publication of the winners will be carried out by the FFVP.

2 Rankings

Participants can register any number of flights for evaluation. All flights are scored with the aircraft's index according to the currently valid WeGlide index list.

2.1 Round ranking

The round result of the respective participating club on a weekend is calculated as the sum of the three best results from different participants from the speed score. The clubs are then ordered by their round results and points are awarded with the following formula:

• the 1st place gets three more points than the 2nd place, but at least three points
• the 2nd, 3rd and 4th place get two more points than the previous place, but at least two points
• the 5th until the 14th place get one more point than the previous place
• every club with a valid flight gets at least one point

2.2 Total ranking

The points of each round are added up. The winner of the Championnat de France des Clubs FFVP is the participating club with the highest number of points.

3 Flight certification

The certification of flights is only possible with IGC-approved GNSS flight recorders or with position recorders with WeGlide approval.

The IGC file must have a valid signature (G record). This includes that this file can be validated using standardized procedures.

The participant is responsible for the proper certification. A flight is only rated if the flight from the point of departure to the end point was carried out without engine assistance and an uninterrupted altitude record and proper certification of the flight path from take-off to landing can be proven. If engine support is used between take-off and reaching the end point, the flight is only counted up to the last coordinate that can be proven to have been reached without engine support.

The interval between two recording points should not exceed four seconds. If technical problems occur, failures in the flight recording of a maximum of 120 seconds are tolerated. The flights must be reported online by noon 12:00 PM (local) two days after the landing.

4 Scoring flights and procedures

The minimum score is 25 points for speed flights.

From the recorded flight path, the maximum possible speed distance in kilometers (km) over a maximum of two turning points and a maximum of three legs over a period of maximum 120 minutes in glider flight without motor assistance is determined for the speed evaluation. The departure altitude for determining the speed limit must not be higher than the arrival altitude. The speed points result from the speed distance corrected by the index with a 75% weighting.

5 Additional rules for motorgliders

The motorglider must have a flight recorder with a propulsion time recorder suitable for the engine system in accordance with the Sporting Code Section 3.

6 Error Codes

The flights are checked on the basis of the Error Codes stored by the provider WeGlide.