Classes · F3 Soaring

F3B

RC multi-task soaring

F3B asks one glider to master three very different tasks: duration, distance and speed.

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Entries: 94
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The discipline

What is F3B?

Each round scores endurance and a spot landing, as many 150-metre legs as possible, and the fastest possible time over four legs. Results are normalised within the flight groups.

A · duration
B · distance
C · speed

F3B competition class

typical span: ≈ 3 m
typical flying mass: ≈ 2 kg
one measured leg: 150 m
tasks per round: 3

One round · three characters

The tasks in F3B

10:00 min

Duration

Within a twelve-minute working window the model is to fly exactly ten minutes and then touch down as close as possible to the landing spot. Deviations in time and landing cost points.

4 min

Distance

In four minutes a 150-metre leg is flown as often as possible. The group has a seven-minute window to adapt launch and tactics to the conditions.

4 × 150 m

Speed

Four measured legs are flown as fast as possible. Unlike A and B the pilots start one after another; the task must be completed inside a four-minute window.

For organisers

Competition control for F3B

Start order draw, result entry at the line and scoring to FAI rules, usable offline on a phone, tablet or laptop. The manual explains how a contest day runs. The practice competition lets you rehearse it without consequences: 54 invented participants in six teams, five groups in the duration task, and it disappears by itself after 48 hours.

Manual for competition control for F3B Create a practice competition — sign in for that

New For pilots

Training log

Everything you fly outside a competition in one place: duration flight, distance flight, speed flight — one entry per flight, with location, wind and weather. Across a season you see your spread instead of single good days. The comparison is against yourself; there is no ranking across everyone who trains, because without a common group it measures the weather and not the pilots.

As an app to place on your home screen — it runs without a network, and on the flying field that is the normal case. You enter a flight right after it, while you still remember how the wind stood; syncing happens by itself as soon as there is reception again. The entries are yours and are never public.

4 entries are open — marked yellow in the list

Current competitions

Completed 35 in total

The 20 most recent of 35 completed competitions.