Major Changes to Navigation Event
As A Result of New Rules

Monroe, LA - At the Spring NIFA Council meeting in early May, the council adopted changes to the rules for the Navigation Event. Below are the major changes to the Navigation event as a result of the rule changes.

•	Prohibition of electronic devices (avionics) has been removed
•	A penalty for underestimation of fuel is now in effect. Previously we allowed a 10% window for underestimation.
•	Fuel penalty is now calculated exponentially vs. linear in the previous rules. This explanation is included in the next version of the Judges Manual.
•	Deviation from planned groundspeed to actual flown ground speed has been added as a scoring parameter.
•	Missed checkpoint penalty has been changed from 600 points to a variable scale anytime the flight is outside the .75 mile radius. See explanation in the Judges Manual.
•	Missed checkpoint penalty has been changed from 600 points to a variable scale anytime the flight is outside the .75 mile radius. See explanation in the Judges Manual.
•	Additionally, this symbol or geographic reference when seen must be recorded on the sectional used by the contestant.
•	A choice of true airspeeds will be offered by the Chief Judge e.g 85kts, 95kts, 105kts, 120kts…... We have been doing this over the past 5 years and now specify it in the rules.
•	Scoring parameters for this event may include penalty points for altitude and course metrics.
•	Failure to plot within 2nm on sectional will result in DQ.
•	Exceeding estimated flight time on any leg has changed from 10 minutes to 5 minutes for DQ purposes.
•	DQ section of the rules has been reorganized and includes many of the references that were previously located in other documents.

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