Airspace

[HB-OJA]

hey i try to fly a contest to day
is it ok to fly through an airspace or im disqualified when there is a notification / entred airspace ?
i was at TP1 and it doesn't took it... the TP have no max/min high. but before i was flying through an airspace was that the Problem ?
i hope you can help me
thx

[Vertigo]

Its almost never ok to fly through an active restricted airspace. The penalty depends on what task setter set in the NOTAM. Im guessing you flew Condor World Cup, the penalty there is that you are considered as outlanded on the place of the airspace infraction (as it is in RL competitions). That is why you couldnt turn any other TPs. In other races there is usually at least 100 or 200 penalty points. And yes, you would have received a chat notification from the server, " xxx entered airspace ". And if you press TAB for the scoring table, you would have seen an L in the first column next to your name, L is for landed. (c=crashed, W=waiting, R=racing, F=finished..)

[HB-OJA]

Oke nice to know. Thanks for your fast response
Whats the best strategy to prevent it ? Looking at all airspaces befor the start. Or is there an option to see how high or how low the airspace restricions are while flying ?

[Vertigo]

studying the task before flying is paramount, but your flight computer will also help out. If you use the condor PDA, you will get a warning if you get close to restricted airspace. Same if you use the LX9070, which will have more options like a vertical view, but using that is a topic on its own.

If you have a secondary monitor or tablet or phone, it may also be very helpful to run comomap or xcsoar on that.
https://condorutill.fr/CoMoMap.html

[HB-OJA]

Oke i will try it at the next race. Thanks a lot for your answers.

Happy flying

Oli

[cloudyifr]

When I loaded Glider Cup 2025 of the Discord Group "Alpen Condor Community" task #2 this morning the small airspace right past the start line didn't show up. This is one that's from SFC-3,000'. Then I right clicked the map and selected Airspaces Enable All and it showed up. IMHO two things should happen for easier flight planning and navigating: 1) The fpl should change the default map settings if airspace is active and in use. 2) the map should have data inside the airspace like SFC/030 for Surface to 3,000'. Makes it easier than hovering and reading the data block. It would allow printing of the map too for easier navigating.

Curtis (CS3)

[Vertigo]

When I loaded Glider Cup 2025 of the Discord Group "Alpen Condor Community" task #2 this morning the small airspace right past the start line didn't show up. This is one that's from SFC-3,000'. Then I right clicked the map and selected Airspaces Enable All and it showed up. IMHO two things should happen for easier flight planning and navigating: 1) The fpl should change the default map settings if airspace is active and in use.

hmm? The FPL determines what airspace zones are active. Sounds like you changed the task by activating an airspace (well, all of them!) that wasnt active?

2) the map should have data inside the airspace like SFC/030 for Surface to 3,000'. Makes it easier than hovering and reading the data block.

I disagree. With airspace zones being widely different sizes and shapes and overlapping multiple times, there would be no telling what label corresponds to what zone. Hovering works perfectly well.