06 - ESP - Change in task proportions (Microlights)

Proposal from

Antonio Marchesi, Spanish Alternate Delegate.

Proposal title

Change in task proportions in Microlights.

Existing text

S10

4.29.3 Tasks shall, as far as practicable, conform to the following guidelines in standard championships:
For Microlight aircraft classes AL, WL WF and GL
  A Tasks for flight planning, navigation, etc with no fuel limit: 50% of the total value of the tasks flown.
  B Tasks for fuel economy, speed, duration, etc with limited fuel: 20% of the total value of the tasks flown.
  C Precision tasks: 30% of the total value of the tasks flown.

Annex 3

2.3 SCORING

2.3.1 The total value of tasks flown in each class during the championships must as far as possible be very close to:
  A Tasks for flight planning, navigation, etc with no fuel limit: 50% of the total value of the tasks flown.
  B Tasks for fuel economy, speed, duration, etc with limited fuel: 20% of the total value of the tasks.
  C Precision tasks: 30% of the total value of the tasks flown.

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Reason

Current task proportions require that a championship with 7 cross-country tasks must have 12 precision tasks. This implies that every landing must be a precision landing (7), and 5 additional precision tasks have to be flown.

• In a time where finding volunteers gets harder and harder, precision landing requires the largest proportion of the manpower during a championship.
• This is probably the hardest job for marshals, who have to stay under the sun (or rain) for the duration of each and every task.
• If the Director decides to join two navigation tasks in the same flight, then he must schedule an additional precision task.
• Precision tasks run independently take plenty of hours when only one or two aircraft are flying. Most pilots would like to be flying rather than queuing while wasting nice flyable weather.

This is the proportion of precision tasks flown in the last championships:

And the following table shows the required number of precision tasks in a championship with 7 cross-country tasks for different values of the precision proportion.