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GBR - 2010 EMC Competition Director
Proposal title
Renaming the task categories
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Annex 4 1.2.1:
GENERAL
Tasks fall into Three Categories:
A Flight planning, navigation estimated time and speed. No fuel limitation.
B Fuel economy, speed range, duration. Fuel limited to maximum 15 kg for aircraft flown solo and 22 kg for aircraft flown with two people.
C Precision
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Annex 4 1.2.1:
GENERAL
Tasks fall into Three Categories:
A Flight planning, navigation estimated time and speed. No fuel limitation. Primarily navigation based tasks.
B Fuel economy, speed range, duration. Fuel limited to maximum 15 kg for aircraft flown solo and 22 kg for aircraft flown with two people. Primarily performance based tasks - speed and/or fuel limited tasks.
C Precision
Reason
A true championship should be about pilot skill and ability rather than aeroplane performance, or at least a mix of the two in which pilot skill is more important.
This way we move a bit more towards separating 'man from machine' in task classification - which I believe was the aim in setting up the categories.
The example is a 'race' task with no fuel limit. Under the current categories, this would be a navigation tasks, where in reality it is a performance task.
This may mean adjusting the task balance for microlights, to allow slightly more B tasks. See proposal 27b.