2016 season, second race – heats

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Registration is closed, so we are announcing participant groups for the Heats.
Heat races will start tomorrow (July 23) 10:00 A.M., be ready and set your video channels as assigned in the table!
If you are not registered yet, you can still come tomorrow at 9:30 A.M. and register live. You will have no time for the heat races, but we will still give you a chance to participate in the Race!

Heats

2016-2 race – questions and answers, part 2

Some answers:

  1. Race day will be announced tomorrow (07.21)
  2. New track layout and arrival schematics published. Parking zones:
    1. First – who will stay here until last day, parking directly on route, from bottom of hill – will fit around 12 cars
    2. Second – on top of hill, on road side. Not blocked by anything, but far enough from race location
    3. Third – next to sleep place. Lots of space, closed for night – but you will need to go ~800m on foot
  3. Team Standings – just reminder – lists should be published one day before race.
  4. Electricity – 220V will be available only for audio equipment and few laptops. If you do not have enough LiPo’s – bring old Pb batteries (from car) – we can recharge them in willage (few powerfull chargers available here). You can’t charge batteries at sleep place and when charging LiPo’s – use safety bag.
  5. Do not forget to pick needed protection from sun/bugs and so on – in other words, pick anything you need to survive one day in field
  6. You can arrive at friday – prob. no problems to fit everyone (can fit ~30+ people at sleep place – it’s old kindergarten 😉 This way you can spend more time with other pilots (probably with can of beer and sausages) and can prepare for race without hurry. No, you can’t fly race track – it will be assembled only on race day morning, but there are many other beautiful places around (also forest, where you can crash your quad without any problems =)
    Drop us a note (pilots@fpv.team) if you plan to arrive at friday.

…two days remaining, time to charge LiPo’s already 😉

2016-2 race – questions and answers

Things changed compared to first race, i outlined important changes here:

  • At start of race day all participants will be divided in groups of 4, in order of arrival and registration. Two hours for warm-up will be divided for registered participants (Not registered? You will have some time, but most likely – less compared to registered pilots – register here, so we can plan schedule) and we can start flying.
    You will have ~12 minutes for warm-up, so pick 2-3 batteries or copters. Warm-up results won’t influence final race/class/team results, but we will group pilots by their total lap amount (not time) and will remove pilots from race who fly unsafe or cannot complete lap due to technical reasons.
  • We will provide 2-3 tripods with 40ch 5.8G RX. You can use this equipment, or own equipment without limitations, only thing you need – connector from RCA to own video googles/HMD/screen. Spectators will have 2-3 additional screens with built-in 5.8G RX, so all frequencies should be covered too.
    Have in mind – if you can’t set any race frequency on your video equipment and you can’t use provided RX, and you can’t fit into your group due to frequency limitations – you won’t fly this time and result will be set to “0” (you still can fly with other groups).
    Tripods with equipment, RCA connector marked:
    rx
  • Comments about track:
    • Track height is limited with gates and flags. You need to fly at (or below) flag height on turns (max allowed height is approx 2x flag height – but this is gray zone already).
    • Total track length is ~2.5km, which is really easy task for most copters (example – 4″ inefficient copter flying 4km and there’s enough battery for 1km+) so fix your copter and track length won’t be a problem even for heavy and inefficient copters (except maybe vibrations – Damped Light + strong magnets on new motors may be real efficiency killer, so tune your copter).
      We will do practical test on 07.17 and will modify track layout and lap count if someone will have problems. Check for updates after next weekend.
  • Initial race sequence is a bit different, compared to previous race – you will get transponders earlier and there will be no warm-up before each race. So, in short:
    1. you are spectator – watching assigned pilot
    2. next group flying – you pick transponder (flying pilots have priority, so do not hurry) and prepare your equipment (do NOT power up your copter)
    3. your time – you power up copter, change frequency, test transponder ID on gate and go race

    This way you will have more time to prepare equipment and groups will fly faster.

Less than 2 weeks remaining until race – prepare your equipment and see you in a track!

2016 season, second race – location details

You can find detailed description here: http://fpv.team/trasos-schema-2016-2/ (yes, it’s only few kilometers from Latvia border 😉

If you need place to sleep (not tent – but only empty building, not hotel) or want hot meals (approx. 5€/person) – note that in registration form or just drop note at pilots@fpv.team.

Short video from actual race location (no gates or flags… Yet):

2016 season second race – date

Finally, we can confirm the final event date – 07.23-24 (weekend). Book this weekend on your calendar, plan your vacation and have least one copter ready
Reserve entire weekend – we decide about Saturday or Sunday only few days before race (weather!).
In any case, saturday evening will be reserved for FPV party – night flying, discussing various things, singing and so on.
If race will be held on Sunday – then pilots arriving on Saturday will have a chance to test track earlier (and, of course, have fun at evening together); in case we will be racing on Saturday – then you can have “free program” on Sunday (depends on weather), so – plan time for entire weekend.

We also decided about final race location – just need to resolve few organizational questions before publishing it. Please, wait a week…
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(Few additional photos from real race location here: G + group )

Important change – Team Standings

Hello!
We have one important change in our racing rules – “Team Standings”.

Most pilots are already part of some team, so we added team score. How it works:

  • decide how many members you have in team
  • publish member list somewhere in internet (needs to be accessible without registration – separate page, G+ public post, FB public post – everything works)
  • decide who will fly for team and for which class (you can have different pilots for each class if your team wants) – at least 2 members/class (other team members can fly as before, but their score won’t go into class score)
  • go fly – we will calculate score!

Further reading: rules, section “Team Standings”.

The second 2016 LT-FPV minicopter race

We will host another minicopter race in Lithuania, estimated date is 07.23-24 (not final), registration will be open in a week, rules and location will be updated in a month. Some important changes compared to previous race event:

  • Race event will last one day – saturday or sunday, but we will have late night party independent from weather, so you can reserve entire weekend anyway
  • Max power on 5.8G band – 25mW. You have enough time to buy another VTX if you do not have one, don’t wait until last day
  • Only three classes (PRO, MINI and Freestyle), OPEN class gone (to save time – need to fit everything into one day)
  • We will completely re-work track. It will be bigger and have flags on turns (to keep close to FAI requirements). Track will be faster for pros and easier for newbies