| A) General |
| 1) | Every
competitor shall fly at his own risk. |
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| 2) | Each
competitor shall fly within the operating limitations of equipment. |
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| 3) | Once the competition
has started, competing glider may not be replaced. Damaged glider may be replaced
if the Competition Director gives permission. |
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| 4) | Competitors
must obey aviation laws. |
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| 5) |
A
pilot who meets with an accident must immediately report it to the organizer.
The cost for rescue, including the cost for requesting a helicopter, will be paid
by the pilot or his family, both in the case that there was any request for a
rescue or the rescue was done because there was no report from the pilot.
A pilot witnessing any kind of accident must try to inform the organizer as soon
as possible using the safety radio frequency. The details of required information
will be found in the section 33. The pilots who stopped the task and supported
rescue actions will be awarded bonus points to their score. The amount of bonus
points will be decided by the Competition Director. |
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| 6) | Protective
equipment
A helmet is compulsory. Pilots must carry a serviceable rescue parachute. |
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| 7) | Personal
health matters
A pilot may not fly unless he is fit. Any drugs or medication
that might affect the pilot's performance in the air are prohibited. |
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| 8) | Collision
avoidance
A pilot joining another in a thermal shall circle in the same direction
as that established by the first pilot.
A competitor involved in a collision
in the air must not continue the flight if the structural integrity of his glider
is in doubt. |
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| 9) |
Cloud
flying
Cloud flying is prohibited. Competitors will be watched by the organizer
and other pilots.
"Cloud flying" means that a part of a glider or
its pilot goes into the cloud and become invisible from third party.
If many
pilots concern cloud flying, the Competition Director may cancel the task of the
day. |
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| 10) | A
competing glider may carry jettisonable ballast only in the form of fine sand
or water. A pilot shall avoid dropping ballast at any time in a manner likely
to affect other competing gliders and other third parties. |
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| 11) |
Radio
receiver
Competitors shall use radios within the national law. |
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| 12) | Task
Committee
Task Committee shall be formed by two elected pilots and the Competition
Director.
Task Committee sets tasks, collecting as much information as possible,
and evaluate the safety aspect of the task. Task Committee shall ask all competitors
to agree with their decision on the task setting.
Task Committee selects the
appropriate airspace, take-off place, and a task, in accordance with the weather
forecast. |
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| 13) |
Safety
Committee
Safety Committee shall be formed by three elected pilots.
Safety
Committee shall report the Competition Director when they found the conditions
on course became unsafe. According to that information, the Competition Director
must determine whether the task shall be continued or not, although the pilots
in flight shall have the responsibility to decide to continue flying or not by
themselves.
Safety Committee shall also confirm whether the task set by the
Task Committee can be run safely or not. |
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| 14) | Briefing
There are the General Briefing and the Task Briefing. |
| *1)General
Briefing
The participation player should participate in General Briefing.
As
for the important information, the notice touches an official bulletin board.
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| *2)Task
Briefing
Task Briefing will be held around Take Off, with all competitors.
Detailed weather and site information will also be announced.
Launch window
shall be opened after 15 minutes or later from the end of the Task Briefing. |
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| 15) |
Publication
of Task Results
The result of the day will be published on the Official Notice
Board at 20:00. If it is impossible, the result will be published at 07:15 in
the next morning. |
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| 16) |
Penalties
nad Disqualification
The Competition Director may impose penalties on pilots.
Penalties |
| *a)A competitor
who committed a severe violation shall be scored zero for the task. |
| *b)Unsporting
behaviour may result in disqualification from the event.
Examples:
Cloud
Flying: Scored zero for the task.
Failure to submit a landing report by the
specified time: Scored zero for the task.
Failure to report back: Scored zero
for the task.
Violation of turning direction rules: Scored zero for the task.
Flying in the forbidden airspace or landing on the forbidden zones: Scored zero
for the task.
All penalties will be published on the score sheet of the day. |
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| 17) | Complaint
A Complaint
may be made to the Competition Director to request a correction. Prior to submitting
a Complaint, you must have sought redress of the problem by asking to the person
in charge. If your problem is resolved, the procedure stops there, if it is not
you may proceed to a Complaint. The time limit for Complaints is 30 minutes after
publication of the provisional task results, except that after the last contest
task it is 10 minutes. |
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| 18) | Protests
If your complaint is not accepted,you may make a Protest to the Competition Director.
The time limit for Protests is 30 minutes after the occurrence of the problem,
except that after the last contest task it is 10 minutes. A Protest must be submitted
to the Competition Director in writing with protest fee \5000. It will be returned
if the protest is upheld. |
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| 19) | Jury
The Jury shall be two persons who are independent from the Competition Organizer.
The Jury shall deal with the submitted protests expeditiously. |
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| 20) | A
pilot who landed outside the specified landing fields shall meet the situation
in good faith. Any property damage have to be dealt with the pilot's own responsibility.
The pilot shall also mark the landing position on the GPS unit and report the
coordination on the task report form. |
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| B) Detailed Regulations |
| 21) | Take-off
The take-off uses two places (the upper and the lower). The lower take-off is
assumed to be free take-off, and upper take-off is assumed to be Order Launch
take-off. "Order
Launch" method shall apply.
Take off area will be divided into "Take
off zone" and "Stand by zone", and a gate will be built between
them. a.) It is divided into Waiting Area and the Take-off zone, and Take-off
zone installs the gate in front of the above Take-off zone, and installs the Waiting
lane in front of the Take-off gate. And, the player should queue up in the Waiting
lane to pass the gate. b.) When the Take-off director confirms the intention
at decided intervals (The example: Every ten minutes), the person who shows the
intention that queues up in the lane can go into the lane to queue up in the Waiting
lane. When there is a player who showed the intention at the same time, it queues
up in the priority level decided beforehand, and the number of people put in the
lane by the call once is assumed to be 20 people in high-ranking order of the
priority level. Moreover, the player who queued up once in the Waiting lane cannot
return to Waiting Area. (However, e.f . The player who drinks and returned to
Waiting Area with Cou eyes is excluded. Moreover, e.f . The priority level of
the player who drinks and returned to Waiting Area by Cou eyes must disappear.
) c.)When the harness is installed after goodness or more that checks the
line of the airframe before it queues up in the Waiting lane and GPS are made
to be supplemented and he or she expands the airframe, the player should enter
the Waiting lane with take-off can done at once. e.) The player in the
Take off zone becomes free take-off when the player doesn't queue up in the way
Tin grain, and it takes off from the take-off director's instruction within 30
seconds or it is necessary to return to Waiting Area when other players queue
up in the Waiting lane. Moreover, should it take off within one minute after it
opens or the first player return to Waiting Area when he or she becomes a take-off
close by some reasons. f.) It goes out of the Take off zone still, and
it returns to Waiting Area when failing though it is possible to try again when
failing in take-off. It follows the Take-off director's instruction when it seems
that it takes time to try again. g.) The priority level is assumed to be
the order of an official order until the day before. However, it draws lots by
the acceptance and the priority level is decided at the first day.
At the first
task, the launch order will be determined by drawing. This order will not be changed
until a task is validated officially. |
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| 22) |
Temporary
Take Off Closing
The Take Off Director may close the Take Off temporarily
because of overcrowding or a weather condition that is not appropriate to taking
off. |
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| 23) | Re-take
off
A safety problem arising immediately after take off which results in a
landing will not count as one of the permitted number of take-offs and the pilot
can retake off with the permission of the Competition Director. |
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| 24) | Re-start
In a speed run task, the "Re-start" rule will not be applied.
The
"Re-start" rule means that a competitor who has once crossed the start
line and a turnpoint(s) crosses the start line again and then elapsed time is
taken from the second crossing on the start line. |
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| 25) |
Re-flight
To allow re-flight or not will be determined on every task. In the case a re-flight
is allowed, only the last flight is scored. In a Speed Run task, The departure
close time is set, and the time is made start time. When
the task is a speedrun, Departure close time is set.
The start time of the
player who passed the departure close time and started tasking must start at this
departure close time. |
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| 26) | Goal
Goal judgement is made by GPS track log, using a virtual goal line or a goal cylinder.
Virtual
goal line: A line of 200-400m long on
each side of the goal coordinateand at right angle to the line between the last
turnpoint and the goal coordinate.
Goal cylinder: A cylinder of
200-400m radius centered on the goal coordinate. |
| *1)Goal line and Finish line
A physical finish line may
or may not be placed at the goal.
Definition of Goal line: A line of 200-400m
long on each side of the goal coordinate and at right angle to the line between
the last turnpoint and the goal coordinate. This is a virtual line.
Definition
of Finish line: Visually identified line on the ground. A finish line must be
placed as close to the virtual goal line as possible. This is a physical line. |
| *2)Goal line control
Competitors
must cross the virtual goal line. Time will be taken on the GPS clock. If a finish
line is placed, Competitors must cross or land on the finish line. In Race to
Goal task goal time shall be taken by Goal Marshals for the first ten competitors,
and by GPS for the eleventh competitor and the later. |
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| 27) |
Task
Closing Time
The final time when the task is measured is announced by the
task briefing, and posted on the task board. The flight until the task close time
becomes a score object. |
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| 28) | Landing
Report Time
Competitors are required to submit a Landing Report to confirm
their safety landing. Competitors must land by the specified Landing Report Time.
A pilot who was found by the organizer to be flying after this time shall be scored
zero for the task.
Landing Reports shall be made immediately after landing
with a radio transceiver or a cell phone so that the organizer does not have to
start a needless search and rescue action. The pilot shall tell the Head Quarter
whether he needs retrieval by the organizer or he can return by himself. |
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| 29) | Report
Back
Report Back must be made by the competitor himself. |
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| 30) | Tasks |
| *1)RACE TO
GOAL
The purpose of competitors is to come in first to the goal. Start time
is same for all competitors.
Start type is Flying Start. |
| *2)SPEEDRUN TO GOAL
The purpose of competitors is to fly
a designated course in the shortest time.
Start time is the last time the
competitor crossed the start line.
However, the starting line is assumed to
be what made departure close time even when crossing after that when the departure
close time is set. |
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| 31) | Validation |
| *1)Minimum distance
Minimum
distance shall be set at more than 12 times of the altitude difference between
the Take Off and the Main Landing Field, and more than 30% of the whole course
distance. |
| *2)Validation of
a Task
A task shall be validated when all three criteria below are met.
*a) The cumulative launch window open time is more than one minute per
pilot, or all competitors launched except those who have cancelled to fly on that
day.
*b) Not fewer than 20% of pilots (including those who did not
fly) fly the minimum scoring distance.
*c) At least one competitor
fly not less than 20km and the total flown distance by first ten competitors is
not less than 128km. Or, when one person or more of the person flies more than
the distance longing of either of two of 10km or Minimamudistans the time by the
player, and became km or more besides (Y+0.6Y×9) ten the high rank total flying
range top the assumption of flying range Ykm. |
| *3)Validation of the Competitio
The competition itself
is validated when one task is validated. But minimums of two validated tasks
are required to validate as the Japan Championship and as FAI Category 2 competition. |
| *4)Competition ranking is determined
by the sum of the scores for validated tasks. |
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| 32) | Cancellation
and Stopping of a task
The Competition Director may cancel a task after any
competitor has taken off if the weather becomes unsuitable or for safety reasons.
Task Cancellation is informed to competitors through radios.
If it is a Race
to Goal task and a minimum of one pilot is in goal, the task will be stopped and
may be scored if the section 31-2 is fulfilled. |
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| 33) |
Guidelines
for Assistance to a pilot in danger
All pilots must pack their gliders immediately
after landing: a glider lying open on the ground means "I need help!"
A pilot witnessing any kind of accident must try to inform the organizer as soon
as possible using the safety radio frequency.
Calling procedure: "MAYDAY,
MAYDAY, MAYDAY".
Give details of:
Name and number of the pilot reporting
the accident
Position of the victim (GPS coordinates)
Description of pilot/glider
in trouble. |
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| 34) | Scoring and Measurement
of Distance |
| *1)Measuring
Distance
Distance measured on GPS track log will be rounded up by 0.1km.
Best position on the GPS track log will be scored unless specified otherwise. |
| *2)Measurement of Time
In principle,
time is measured in seconds on GPS clock.
In a RACE TO GOAL task, if a physical
finish line is placed, the time measured by Goal Marshals will be used for scoring
for the first ten competitors. |
| *3)Scoring
Formula (PJL Formula)
Scoring formula is as below. A score given to a competitor
shall be expressed to the nearest whole number, 0.5 being rounded up.
Maximum
Score for a task is 1000.
RACE TO GOAL
Distance Points = 1000 x
(1 - g) x (D / Dmax) Time
Points = 1000 x g x [(G1 - Ss) ;/ (G2 - Ss)] ＾3
Total
Points = Distance Points + Time Points SPEED
RUN
Distance Points = 1000 x (1 - g) x (D / Dmax)
Time
Points = 1000 x g x (Tmin / T) ＾3
Total
Points = Distance Points + Time Points Nf:
Number of pilots who made goal Nto:
Number of pilots who expressed the intention to fly the task D:
Distance flown by the pilot Dmax:
The valid longest distance flown Ss:
Start window opening time G1:
The time the first pilot crossed the goal line G2:
The time the pilot crossed the goal line T:
Flight time of the pilot Tmin:
The shortest flight time in the flight g
= 0.6 x Square root (Nf / Nto) |
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| 35) | Flight
Verification
All flight will be verified using GPS track-log evidence.
A competitor must have at least one GPS unit. The GPS units that are acceptable
are designated by the organizer.
Competitors must set up their GPS unit parameters
correctly.
When a competitor reports back, he shall upload his track log of
the day to the organizer's PC. |
| *1)General
Only a track log from one GPS will be scored. A pilot may not connect two or more
track logs as one track log.
A track log file or the data that is downloaded
on a GPS unit may not be used as an evidence for flight verification. Data from
a designated data logger may be used as an evidence for flight verification. In
this case the organizer may require the pilot to submit a GPS track log that was
connected to the data logger to confirm the validity of the data from the data
logger. |
| *2)Valid GPS data
Valid track log must fulfill the criteria below and time interval of track log
points is advised to be less than 20 seconds..
There are at least two minutes
and five continuous points before and after a turnpoint sector.
There are
at least two minutes and five continuous points before and after the start sector.
Time data is recorded. |
| *3)GPS
judgement criteria
A track log to prove that a competitor has crossed the
start line or has entered into a turnpoint sector must fulfill criteria below.
A point within a cylinder sector.
Two continuous points before and after the
start line.
"Mark + Enter" is not acceptable.
In a Race to Goal
task, the tolerance of start time is five seconds. |
| *4)Obligation to keep a track log
If there are restricted
Airspaces around the flight course, the organiser will judge the violation of
airspace with GPS track logs. In this case competitors must keep their whole track
of the day on a continuous track log. |
| *5)GPS
Operation
A pilot may use more than one GPS unit or Data logger at the same
time for the purpose of back up.
A flight must be recorded in a GPS unit or
a Data logger.
A pilot must set up his GPS unit and/or Data logger parameters
correctly.
A pilot must not delete the data of last flight until the official
score is confirmed.
If a submitted track log could not be scored correctly,
the pilot may submit another track log. In this case the serial number of the
secondary GPS unit or Data logger must be registered to the organizer beforehand. |
| *6)Penalties
for Incorrect GPS track log
Missing start point: Scored zero.
Uncontinuous
track log when a continuous track log is required: Scored zero.
No track logs
in a turnpoint cylinder: Scored based on the best position. Distance points for
the best position before the turnpoint will be given.
In the case that best
position cannot be detected, for example the pilot who did not make goal did not
turn GPS unit off after landing and moved on foot: Distance points up to the last
turnpoint before landing will be given. |
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| 36) | Other
matters will be judged based on the Paragliding Japan League Rules.
Forbidden
Airspace
･The inside of the column of 400m in radius and 1300m or less in
above the sea altitude is made a no-fly zone by centering on NG1.
･The inside
of the column of 400m in radius and 1150m or less in above the sea altitude is
made a no-fly zone by centering on NG2.
The task is disqualified when judged
going into this range from the GPS track log obviously. |
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