Standard Flights are where you fly cross-country in whatever direction you wish, which is usually downwind. Depending on whether you are flying with a GPS, you can enter your flight as either an Open Distance or a Turnpoint Flight. Only Open Distance flights can be submitted with witnesses as evidence. For Turnpoint Flights you must submit the tracklog of your flight, downloaded from your GPS or flight instrument.
Open Distance flights do not have any turnpoints and will score the straight-line distance from the start point to the finish point. If you submit a tracklog, the start and finish points do not have to be your takeoff and landing. However, for witness flights only your takeoff and landing points are valid.
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| UK Records | |
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| Male: | 253.4km (Richard Carter 2011) |
| Female: | 125.0km (Judy Leden 2004) |
| Tandem: | 172.3km (Tim Guildford & Louise Maurice 2005) |
A Turnpoint Flight is an open distance flight with a start and finish point, and up to 3 intermediate turnpoints. This means that you can use flight optimization software to compute your best distance. The start and finish points may be different to the actual takeoff and landing points.
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| UK Records | |
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| Male: | 255.7km (Richard Carter 2011) |
| Female: | None |
| Tandem: | None |
| For UK records turnpoints must be at least 10km apart. For a new record to be set, it must exceed the existing Open Distance record by 1km. | |
