Significant controversy has broken out here in Austria over the use of loggers and GPS and the impact on the results. The protests are flying thick and fast - unlike the balloons.
The Event Director earlier in the week had stated some additional rules concerning use of 'backup GPS tracks' in the event of a competitor's offically supplied 'logger' failing.
During the early protests today the CIA stated that only officially approved GPS's could be used as backup and that backup logs provided during the week that didn't meet the strict requirements would end in a nil result of those pilots.
Why would someone want a nil result - well if a number of nil results were issued than the scores would be reshuffled for all valid competitors and some would get more points as a result. This is having a significant impact on positions 2 and 3 at the moment with UK's Mike Howard being dropped from 3 to 5 subject to the end of protests....
we are waiting and watching here in Austria...
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So what constitutes an officially approved GPS? Do they make that up on the spot? Did you have any?
Wow - that really is controversial - makes for interesting times..... I bet some people are getting very hot under the collar about the whole thing. Imagine thinking you're third and then dropping to fifth - aaaghhh
and so it is. Mike Howard in 5th place now after all results final. That must really hurt.
On the other side the aussies have moved up a bit.
I thought it was interesting that despite it being a GPS based event and all the threats of Dave Levin pulling GPS tasks out everywhere, this did not occur. In fact all the task called were from the non GPS rulebook.
In other words, if they were going to fly traditinal tasks, why not use observers, then you wouldn't have had all the problems with GPS failures.
You reap what you sew.
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