14 Editorial changes

Proposal from

Barney TOWNSEND (GBR)

Proposal title

14 - editorial of backtracking definitions

Existing text

S.10

Annex 4, 2.A1, 2.A2, 2.A3, 2.A4, 2.A5, 2.B1

A 100% penalty will be imposed for backtracking. Backtracking is defined as either re-joining the active track line at a point prior to the point where the pilot departed from it or flying with an angle of greater than 90 degrees in respect to the intended flight direction within a corridor defined by the width used to score gates in the task. The only exception to this is within a radius defined by the distance from the centre of the turnpoint to the outermost point of intersection between the two corridors, as defined by the diagram shown in S.10 4.24.5. If the task involves more than one possible active track line (e.g. Cog wheel navigation with unknown legs), all track lines shall be considered as active.

And

Annex 4 3.A6, 3.A7,

Backtracking against the task direction or crossing a hidden gate backwards: 100%

New text

Reason

This is really an editorial proposal to simplify S10 and the annexes.

The original text:

"A 100% penalty will be imposed for backtacking. Backtracking is defined as either re-joining the active track line at a point prior to the point where the pilot departed from it or flying with an angle of greater than 90 degrees in respect to the intended flight direction within a corridor defined by the width used to score gates in the task. The only exception to this is within a radius defined by the distance from the centre of the turnpoint to the outermost point of intersection between the two corridors, as defined by the diagram shown in S.10 4.24.5. If the task involves more than one possible active track line (e.g. Cog wheel navigation with unknown legs), all track lines shall be considered as active". 

is defined in S.10 4.24.5 and this should constitute the official definition of backtracking. Repeating it in every task description invites the risk of editorial errors not updating every one of them whenever changes are made to this sentence.

Furthermore, there is a discrepancy in the description between paramotor tasks and microlight tasks. This proposal simplifies and unifies the description. If there is a 100% penalty applied for backtracking, then there is no need for the additional statement that crossing a hidden gate backwards also incurs the penalty - the pilot would, by definition, be backtracking at this point.