4.2 Declaration

For each flight, certain information is required to be recorded before the flight in order to ensure that proof of the soaring performance is available after the flight. This data, including waypoints (e) is known as the declaration. For some performances, some data is not required, but the Official Observer must ensure that all required data is recorded.

4.2.1 Declaration content

The information shall be written on a single sheet of paper or board, or recorded in the memory of a flight recorder prior to the flight. For world records only the latter applies.

a. Date of flight

b. Name of pilot in command/name of crew (if any)

c. Type and registration of glider

d. Type and serial number of barograph or flight recorder

e. Way points and the sequence to be flown, start, turn(s), finish/goal as applicable to the specific soaring performance * (See also 4.2.3)

f. Date and time of declaration

g. Signature of pilot in command **

h. Signature & name of OO, with date and time. **

* not required for free distance records

** not required for electronic declarations

4.2.2 Declaration validity - missed turnpoints

a. The last declaration made before takeoff is the only one valid for the flight, but a concurrently flown and different competition task is allowed.

b. If a declared turn point is abandoned, a closed course flight may still be claimed from the resulting shorter course provided that the turn points achieved are in the sequence specified in the
declaration.

Therefore, no turn points after a missed turn point may be claimed. See Annex C for examples of soaring performances allowed following the abandonment of a pre-declared course.

4.2.3 Use of waypoint lists in pre-flight declarations

Where waypoints are identified in the declaration by abbreviations or codes rather than by exact WGS84 lat/long or by exact geographical points, the key to the abbreviation or code must be attached to the claim. The key shall include the exact WGS84 lat/long or be the exact geographical point against each abbreviation or code used in the declaration, and it must be shown to have existed before the flight concerned.