Peter Lürkens 30 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Aside from the general virtual soaring rules (c.f. thread below) I sat down and started consideration how to do serios Virtual saoring competion and which rules should apply here. The idea is to have this as a sort of requirements specifications for sofwtare logger modules. With no claim for comprehensiveness or feasibility:Some definitions:Aircraft.cfg : The aircraft configuration file of the chosen planeAirfile.air : The associated airfileRace-files : Files that describe the Initial conditions, weather situation of a flight, a version of thermaldiscriptions.xml, and a scenery set (ridge lift). A mission file, if provided.SoC : Start-of-Competition, the moment when competition relevant logging startsRace : Competition or record flight, from loading the situation until completing the competition phase1) Only registered gliders are approved (i.e. aircraft.cfg + airfile.air)2) Slewing after SoC is not allowed3) Aircraft can be selected once, prior to SoC (i.e. immediately after loading the race-files)4) Change of weather mode or user defined weather configuration during flight is not allowed5) Race-files must not be altered.6) Pausing is not allowed in real weather mode7) Pausing may be allowed in weather theme mode (t.b.d.)8) Pausing is never allowed during records7) Simulator speed must be always 1.0 (no acceleration/deceleration)8) Usage of VET-enhancements is not allowed after starting the competition9) Additional soaring and ridge lift scenery has to be deactivated.10) Add-ons, that affect plane movement, except from CumulusX! and SimProbe have to deactivated during the race.11) Influence on weather conditions of add-ons (e.g. FSUIPC) have to be deactivated during the race12) FAI-GC rules have to be applied, where applicable (i.e. no records after/before virtual sunset, start altitude, start window ...)It's already quite a lot of rules, and it is not fully clear to me how to proof compliance in an acceptable way. A method, to check could be extracting hash values from all the relevant files and combining these with hash values of the logged data. But there is is still a need also to check a number of events in FSX.best regards,Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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