Brian Harris CIVL Competition Coordinator at Civl_Comps <<civl_comps>>
writes:

As you already know work has been patchy on FS for the last 18
months but we now have 2 more developers working on it, so future progress
should be good.

The latest release of FS is 1.2.14 and the scoring formula of GAP2011 has been
added. The latest PWC formula will be added soon.

A new version of the scoring formula has been added because there were changes
made to the default settings and additions made to cater for the paragliding
stopped task scoring , as well as a few bug fixes. The latest version gives a
set of defaults for hang gliding and a set of defaults for paragliding it is
intended that these defaults are used for CAT 1 competitions and that only the
nominal GAP parameters are changed. The old version of the formula GAP2008 is
still available in this release if it still required.

The changes made for stopped paragliding Race tasks are to give a bonus distance
based on altitude above goal at the point that the task is stopped ( or scored
back point) and to devalue the day, currently this has been added for
paragliding CAT 1 as it was proposed at the last plenary. It could also be used
in hang gliding CAT 2, but it has not been proposed for hang gliding CAT1 by the
hang gliding sub committee.

The default settings for hang gliding in GAP2011 are as you have already pointed
will produce scoring that is equivalent to GAP2002 (with leading points) so
there should be no surprises, GAP2011 has been retro tested against a number of
competitions that were scored with GAP2008 and only the occasional 1 point
difference found (due to rounding up/down). It was used at the Piedrahita worlds
this year and is in use at the Monte Cucco Hang Gliding Worlds.

Below are defaults for hang gliding:

http://fs.fai.org/

Just to be completely clear GAP 2011 formula = GAP 2002 formula. The formulas
are the same except for a few additional features added to GAP 2002 to make GAP
2011. FS is an implement of GAP2002 in a scoring program. Just as my scoring
program in SeeYou is an implementation of the GAP 2000 and OzGAP 2005 formulas.