Stopwatch Accuracy for FAI Free Flight World Records

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From: <leop_at_lyradev.com>
Date: 04 Jun 2018 02:00:17 +0000

The 2018 FAI rules for records required that the stopwatches used be calibrated to an accuracy of better than one part per million (10^6) or about one second in 300 hours. This is a standard which is very difficult to obtain with affordable and commercially available stopwatches. The FAI CIAM Plenary voted in April to amend this section to allow for a one part in one hundred thousand (10^5) or about one second per day. There are many stopwatches commercially available at reasonable prices that meet this standard.

Last Tuesday, May 29, 2018, the FAI CIAM published a Technical Notice that the new one part in 10^5 accuracy standard would take effect on June 1, 2018 (last Friday).

LeoP

Received on Mon Jun 04 2018 - 02:00:23 CEST