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USA Jnr Team Selection program Results so far.
Rewrite the F1Q rules

USA Jnr Team Selection program Results so far.
From: Jim Parker

This year it has been exciting to watch, track and now report on the USA 2026 Jr FAI FF Team Selection Scores. We’ve seen these juniors place in many top contests and have won a few as well.

Below are the current standing of the 26 completed of 37 contests on the Jr Team Selection Schedule. For the full details, see the Jr Team Selection Program at the NFFs website: from the home page; “Flying& Competition / Youth In Completion / 2026 USA FAI Jr FF Team Selection program” (pdf). The link :https://www.freeflight.org/wpcontent/uploads/2025/02/2026JuniorTeamProgram.pdf

Brief summary of the Jr Program

– The 2026 Jr World Championship will be in the summer (date tbd) in Prilep, North Macedonia
– For this team, members must be 19 years old through out all 2026 or younger
– Events are: F1A, B, P and Q
– 3 person team, 4 person team if one is female
– Best 5 contest scores of the AmCup contests between Jan.1 2025 and Feb.28, 2026. No minimum number of flying site requirement.
– Scores are a percentage of the winning regular round total
– Final team selection by final contest score ranking combined with the Jr Team Selection committee ranking
– No entry fee to the Jr TSP but the dead line for entry is Dec.1, 2025. Entry form and information in the JrTSP, link above.

USA Jr Team Selection Committee
Charlie Jones, chairman
Sevak Malkhasyan
Jim Parker

2025-2026 Junior Team Scores
Sept.18, 2025
F1A
John Mah-Gersting 493.0
Aarna, Appajapda 307.6
John Kim 178.9
Caleb Finn 63.6
F1B
Adith Alagiri 490.7
Yuxi (Tia) Zheng 292.9
Reema Bharadwai 255.8
Aurelius Lin 165.7
John Mah-Gersting 85.9
F1P
Emrick Smith 500.0
Caleb Finn 233.9
Paul Finn 135.2
F1Q
Aarav Alagiri 262.6
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We missed including this in an earlier SEN … Sorry about that!
Rewrite the F1Q rules

From: Tapio Linkosalo

Let me first clarify: I do NOT suggest changing the characteristics of F1Q models.

The current rules for F1Q are in two places, the class rules and EDIC. These two are mixed together. As I see it, the class rules are the section that is relevant to the flier. and EDIC is intended for those that design and build limiters. As a competitor, I do not see that I should pay attention to the EDIC. Currently, however, the EDIC defines how the limiter should be installed in the model, and the class rules have parts that define how the limiter should work. This parts would need to be re-organized.

The two sections also describe the connectors used to connect the measuring device to verify the correct working of the limiter. This section in class rules and EDIC define different types of connectors! These need editing.

While rewriting, I would also like to see the description of how the limiter should work clarified. As I see it, the limiter should have two functions:

1) measure the energy and when a user-defined limit is met, send a signal to timer and/or modify the ESC control signal to shut down the motor. Typically this user-defined limit is slightly smaller than the calculated energy budget of the model, as shutting down the motor may spend some energy (active braking of the motor).

2) Measure and report the total energy use of the motor and the motor run time, from model launch (release of the start button) until end of flight. There has been some discussion of a possibility to restart the motor after shutdown. Controlling the ESC signal is one way, but as the current rules allow also ESC controlled solely by the timer, measuring the energy budget is the easier way to make sure energy is within limits.

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