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A Rare Bird – Official Flights Under 20 Seconds!

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1 Mykola Kovalenko
2 Sevak Malkhasyan

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3 Jes Nyhegn
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GivenName    Family Name 3 LeR1 R2  R3  R4 R5 FO FO 4 TieBTotal
1  Tiffaney  Odell       USA 120 120 120 120 120 180 240      1020
2  Bernard   Guest       CAN 120 120 120 120 120 180 201      981
3  Tuvia     Fibish      ISR 120 120 120 120 1201 80 137      917
4  Walt      Ghio        USA 120 120 120 120 120 174          774
5  Geralyn   Jones       USA 120 120 120 120 120 132          732
6  Abraham   Baruch      ISR 120 120 120 120 120117          717
7  Jeremy    Fitch       USA 120 120 120 120 120 85           685
8  Evgeny    Gorban      UKR 120 120 120 120 12 028           628
9  Michael   Richardson  USA 120 120 120 12089              569
10 Ladislav  Horak       CAN 102 120 120 86 120             548
11 Kurt      Van Nest    USA 120 30  120 106120             496
12 Tony      Mathews     CAN 120 120  0  120120             480
13 Philip    Sullivan    USA 118 120 120 45 DNF             403
14 Peter     Brocks      USA 120 120 120 20 DNF             380
15 Patrick   MacKenzie   CAN 120 2  DNF DNFDNF             122

F1H
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Given NameFamily Name 3 LeR1 R2 R3   R4 R5 FO FO 4 TieBTotal
1  Per       Findahl     SWE 120 120 120 120 120180  240 282  1302
2  Yuval     Bichet      ISR 120 120 120 1201 20180  240 223  1243
3  James     Parker      USA 120 120 120 120 120180  145       925
4  Blake     Jensen      USA 120 120 120 120120180  142       922
5  Shmuel    Sityon CohenPOR 120 120 120 120 120163            763
6  Sagiv     Cohen       ISR 120 120 120 120 120148            748

F1J
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Given NameFamily Name 3 LeR1 R2  R3  R4 R5 FO FO 4 TieBTotal
1  Randy     Secor       USA 120 120 120 120 120180 240 378  1398
2  Mike      McKeever    USA 120 120 120 120 120180 240 345  1365
3  Daryl     Perkins     USA 1201 20 120 120 120180 240 340  1360
4  Faust     Parker      USA 1201 20 120 120 120180 240 302  1322
5  Terry     Kerger      USA 120 120 120 120 120 0           600

F1S
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Given NameFamily Name 3 LeR1 R2  R3  R4 R5 FO FO 4 TieBTotal
1  Sevak     Malkhasyan  USA 1201 20 120 1201 20120 180      900
2  David     Sechrist    USA 1201 20 120 120 120120 141      861
3  Robert    Donnelly    USA 1201 20 120 120 120120 132      852
4  Jack      Murphy      USA 1201 20 120 120 120120 112      832
5  Julie     Parker      USA 1201 20 120 120 120120 104      824
6  John      Cooper      GBR 1201 20 120 120 120120 96       816
7  Clint     Brooks      USA 1201 17 120 120 120             597
8  Shmuel    Sityon CohenPOR 120  93  120 120 120             573
9  Janna     Van Nest    USA 120 120 120 120 93              573
10 Benjamin  Tarcher     USA 1209  7  103 56 120             496
11 Lynn      Edmondson   USA 120  DNF DNF DNFDNF             120

A Rare Bird – Official Flights Under 20 Seconds!

By Aram Schlosberg
Flight times are recorded in
full seconds – times are rounded to the nearest second. The midpoint 0.5 is rounded up to the next second (Sporting code F1.2.6 Time recorded). For example, 179.5 seconds flight is rounded up to  180 seconds while 179.49 is rounded as 179 seconds.

Another portion of the sporting code covers attempts that include a flight under 20 seconds (3.1.5.f) stating “The recorded duration of the flight is less than 20 seconds”. This means that a flight of 19.99 seconds is an attempt, while a flight of 20 seconds is official.

At the Maxmen F1E contest on Thursday Feb 16th a flier launched his F1E but the stab was over elevated and after a brief series of stalls the model hit the ground. His two timers clocked 19.5 and 19.6 seconds. According to (3.1.5.f) it was an attempt. To my surprise it was ruled as an OFFICIAL FLIGHT of 20 seconds applying the rounding up rule (F1.2.6).

But the rounding up rule does not trump other rules. A sub 20 second flight is always an attempt. Period. (Only if the flier did not make another flight that round their official time would have been 20 seconds.)

Maybe (3.1.5.f) should be tweaked to something like “the actual duration” to rid us from these rare birds. ///