Steve do you know of a website were i can read up on FAI scoring? or would in be on the AMA site?
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-Steve
You can get access to the FAI rules at
http://www.fai.org/aeromodelling/documents/sc4You also asked about other details used regarding the scoring at our Team Trials. As has been explained, the FAI scoring system is based on judging each maneuver from 0 to 10, and then there is a K Factor applied based (at least in some opinions) on the difficulty of each maneuver. Generally, with experienced and critical judging, a good score in the FAI system is in the range of 1,000 points. A really good score would be in excess of 1,100 points. (I could determine what a "perfect" score would be, but do not have the material immediately available, but it is in the range of 1,300 to 1,400 points.) Our Team Trials are run in a similar manner as the World Championships. We have two qualifying circles, each with a set of 3 judges. Each pilot performs two flights on each of the two circles and qualifiers are determined based on the total of the best of the two flights from each circle. Hence, you see a two flight total after the qualifying rounds of around 2,000 points, plus or minus. At our Team Trials, 10 of the 21 entries at this Team Trials were taken to the Finals round based on that two flight total for each competitor. (At the World Championships where as many as 90 fliers are entered, there are 15 finalists per the specific FAI rules.)
The finals round then becomes a new contest as the qualifying flight scores are discarded, each pilot has three official flights in front of six judges. There are two attempts allowed for each of the three official flights. Finals scores and rankings are based on the best two of those three official flights. This year, high and low judge's scores are retained in establishing the average score for each individual flight. Thus, the finalist's scores will be in the range in excess of 2,000 points, and in the case of our current Team Members and the first alternates, their two flight total scores were in excess of 2,300 points.
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