How you add up the points for 1/2a scale for the total score is confusing.
There are two possible ways to do it depending up on how many rounds the contest has, 1 or 2 rounds or 3 or 4 rounds
1) flying two rounds at a local contest (one day event)
get your static score
fly one or two flights, but either way you double the best flight score and add that to the average static score between the two judges
2) flying four rounds like at the NASA Classic and the Nats
get your static score
fly four times, only the two best flight scores apply
take the two best flight scores add them together then add the static score (avg between the two judges)
If you don't double the flight score the total score is dominated by the static score. Doubling the flight score at least gives the flight score an equal level of points within reason.
It's really important that the 1/2a scores get added correctly at the Nats
1) enter Avg Static Score = _______
2) enter best flight score = ________
3) enter 2nd best flight score = _________
Then add all three of the scores together, this could be a simple work sheet, if the best overall score does get close to 170 then the points were not added up correctly. Anything in the 100 to the 125 range for the best overall score indicates that the two best flight scores were not considered.
6.3.1 – 1/2a Scale:
1/2a scale maximum static scoring is eighty (80) points. Maximum flight
scoring is forty-five (45) points per flight. If one or two rounds are flown,
the single best flight score is doubled for a maximum flight score of 90
points. If three or four rounds are flown, flight scoring is the summation of
the two best flight scores for a maximum value of 90 points. Total scoring
6.5.2. ½ A Scale.
The flight plan shall consist of three (3) required maneuvers and
(1) over all judgment (realism in flight) listed in sequence. A
maximum of ten (10) points is allocated to each of these four flight
plan elements. Airborne laps have one point is awarded for each
lap completed with all engine(s) running up to ten (10) laps. The
four (4) taken together have a maximum award of forty (40) flight
points. Two (2) bonus points are awarded for multi-engine models,
provided the additional engine(s) run during the majority of the
flight, but excluding landing. The maximum number of flight score
points is forty-five (45). The maximum flight scoring of two flights
is 90 points.
1. Takeoff.
2. Ten (10) Airborne Laps.
3. Landing.
4. Realism and Smoothness in Flight.
6.6.1. 6.6.2 – 1/2a Scale:
If three (3) or four (4) official flight rounds are scheduled and
flown, then the flight scoring is the summation of the two highest
flight scores. To break a tie, the average of the three (3) best flight Academy of Model Aeronautics
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scores will be added to the static score. If this does not break the
tie, then the average of four (4) flight scores will be added to the
static score.
If only one (1) or two (2) official flight rounds are flown during
the event, then the flight scoring will double the single best flight
score. To break a tie, add the single best static score to the total
score.
I had to coach our CL Scale E.D. at the Lafayette Esquadrille Broken Arrow CL scale contest on this which is very different from profile and sport scale events (to be held Sept 18, 2021 at Buder Park)
Fred