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SSN 4 RND 1 The Tangled Heart Tango

S A S F R A S

Season 4, Round 1

I, JVnotch, will be your Watchman & am very proud to host this event on 
the band new Racing terrain, Race10 . 
Our base  for Sunday, February 13 th will be A47 on Rooks side.
(If you have not downloaded already,I should be able to have the 
SEA 1 loaded by early Sunday morning)

The plane will be the RV-8 with fuel set to .5 .
(type  '  .plane 89  '  in the hangar, then goto tower, 
then back to hangar & it should be there!)
 
Racing Radio Frequency shall be 214

4:55pm EST- an announcement over all arena's for practice of SASFRAS
5:00pm EST- Parade laps lead by your Watchman begin
6:45pm EST- Racers confident enough to try, will be bracketed   
7:00pm EST- Starting time

 

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Competitors will be randomly paired up & bracketed before the race begins by Watchman.
 
Each pair will be racing against each other and the winner of that bracket will be determined by the 
quickest time. The winner of each bracket will advance to the next bracket.
 
The event time keeper(the Watchman) will call each racer onto the course by saying "Racer (name), you are 
cleared to enter the SASFRAS Course,Good Luck!", at which time the racer will fly to the starting gate.
 
Time will start when the racer has passed through the starting gate. Also the racer must turn smoke on & 
announce "Smoke on" as they are entering the course. Failure to do either of these will result in a time
penalty for each violation.
 
The racer will navigate the course as quickly and correctly to have their time ended at the Finish gate.
Smoke being turned off, followed by the announcement of "smoke off" will symbolize the successfull 
completion of the course at the finnish gate.
 
Each racer's time will be computed immediately after the completed run and announced by the 
Watchman.

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The Tangled Heart Tango
 
1.   All pilots will assemble in the luxurious Honeymoon Tower (complete with Jacuzzi) at A47.
Once the signal to lift off is given, Racer have two options.  1) They may orbit in an "UP NEXT" 
area SE of A47 or,       2) They may practice at A46(a duplicate course)
 
Warning:  If you crash while on the practice course, during the round, I will be leaving
in the tower until you are up next in the rotation
 
2.  The starting gate is the pair of green pylons located on the SE runway & is where our pilot must 
turn smoke on & announce "Smoke on". This will start the clock running.
 
3.   Once thru the starting gate, our Romantic Racer will execute a sweeping right turn to pass between 
3 red pylon gates. This will be the "curvy" right part of the heart track.
 
4.   The next marker will be at the SE end of the field and is 3 red pylons in a triangle shape. The idea is 
to pass through the middle of the triangle, in a right turn, with 2 of the legs on your right wing, to head to 
the "curvy" left part of the heart track .
 
5.  Now, the Fancy  Flyboy, or Flygirl, must now execute another sweeping right turn, passing through the 3 "curvy"
left half of the Tangled Heart track gates.
 
6.   Lined up with the starting gate, our Prettyboy, or Prettygirl Pilot should prepare to maneuver through a perfectly
pontificated pirouette(a half-cuban eight) to run the Sensual symbol course in reverse   <3
 

 
7.   After penalties have been added in, the pilot that was on the course will be told their time.
 
 
 
 
Notes:
The 'Watchman'  has final say over the time of each racer. Lag will not be considered in the final 
assessment of overall time announcements
 
A knife-edge manuever is accomplish by flying with the wings perpindicular to the ground while in forward 
motion. As a reference, level flight is when the wings are parralel to the ground in forward motion.
 
 
 
Penalties:
 
2 seconds for not turning smoke on
2 seconds for not announcing "Smoke on"
2 seconds for missing an obstacle
2 seconds for breaking altitude restrictions
2 seconds for high-sticking
2 seconds for not turning smoke off
2 seconds for not announcing "Smoke off"
 
Disqualification:
 
Crashing once will be at the mercy of your fellow racers to decide if you can proceed 
 
Crashing twice will disqualify a racer for that heat.
 
5 minutes or more on the course will disqualify a racer for that heat.
 
Entering course without knowledge or permission of the watchman will disqualify the racer for the duration of 
the race
 

 

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