MISSION 2024 ECLIPSE COMPETITION MANUAL
Section 3 General Competition Rules, continued
<G5> Drones at the field must be ready to fly. Teams must be prepared when they bring their drones to the field. For example, teams must ensure that their batteries are charged and their drone controller is paired with their drone before placing the drone on the field. <G6> Flight team members are the only team members allowed at the field. During a match, each team may have up to 3 team members at the field and must remain in the identified pilot and/or visual observer stations. <G7> During a match, f light team members may touch their own drone if the drone has not completed take off. If the drone has not taken off, then students may momentarily reach into the flight zone to retrieve their drone and troubleshoot. Common troubleshooting may include:
a. Turning the drone on or off. b. Plugging in a battery. c. Pairing the drone to the controller. d. Making a quick repair.
Once ready, the team should place the drone back into a legal starting position to re-enter the match.
<G8> Be prepared for minor variances. Field and game element positions and tolerances may vary by ±3” unless otherwise specified.
<G9> Match replays are allowed, but rare. Match replays (i.e., playing a match over again from its start) are at the discretion of the Event Partner and Head Referee, and will only be issued in the most extreme circumstances. An example of an extreme circumstance would be the event venue losing power during a match. <G10> No electronic communication devices allowed. Flight team members may not have/use any sort of electronic communication device in the pilot station or visual observer station. This includes any device that provides camera or video images. Devices with communication features turned off (e.g., a phone in airplane mode) are allowed. <G11> The Q&A system is an extension of this competition manual. All teams must adhere to all Aerial Drone Competition rules as they are written and must abide by the stated intent of the rules. Every team has the opportunity to ask for official rules interpretations in the Aerial Drone Competition Question & Answer system. All responses in this Q&A system should be treated as official rulings from the Aerial Drone Competition
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