Id like to try something new; now that we have FES gliders in condor, Id like to try an e-glide format competition in condor. In e-glide, all competitors are allowed to use their electric sustainer for a certain amount of kWH during the race. This opens up a lot of new tactical possibilities and challenges which are not well explored in either IRL or condor, and it also allows us to work around some current limitations in condor (like lack of breeze) to make tasks flyable that would be too hard without FES.
We currently dont have the tools to implement this properly in condor, Condor scores you as outlanded the moment you turn on your FES, and there is no measuring of used battery capacity in the FTR or IGC to my knowledge; so Condor club cant score this properly either, even if Thierry wanted to. But I think with a little manual labor we can get close enough to at least validate the concept: Soaringlabs will score a condor IGC even if you used the FES, and it seems CC will also let you see the task time, even if you "landed out" (used FES). And the miniLAK and Duo have a small enough battery that, especially on a long enough task, we could simply allow using it entirely. The condor PDA can still be used for the most part, even after using the motor, but you get no indication of turned TPs and no applause when you finish...
Using regatta start, you would get some sort of "real time" result, assuming no one cuts any corners
But proper scoring would have to be done manually, by sending in your FTRs to CC, and then using CC or soaringlab and a spreadsheet to calculate the actual times and scores, like in the good old days before Condor Club. Because of this, I would restrict this to no more than 10-12 participants. Id like to start with a few individual races or 'training days' to kick the tires and test the concept, and if it goes well, and there is sufficient interest, maybe a small competition (where I would also want to test a few other ideas for a possible future lowlands cup reboot). Dont expect anything fancy, this would be just a bare bones proof of concept.if you are interested in creating tasks for this, Im open to submissions, that as the combination of weather zones, airspace zones and FES gives us a lot to explore and experiment with.
Looking at the CC calendar, thursday and saturday seem pretty empty. Im thinking 19:45 CET? But if you are interested in participating, please post below what days/time would suit you best.
Ive created a competition on CC where you can register, and that we can use to upload the FTRs:
https://www.condor.club/comp/show/0/?id=833
dont worry, It will not impact your CCrating, thats turned off.
) , and wanted to link to the CC eglide page:
