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2019 FAI Jeonju World Drone Masters

1~3 November 2019, Jeonju World cup Stadium, South Korea

Information Bulletin 1

Website: www.faiwdm.com

http://www.faiwdm.com/


Index

General Information .................................................................................................................................................................... 3

City of Jeonju ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4

Jeonju World Cup Stadium.............................................................................................................................................. 5

Transportation ............................................................................................................................. .................................................. 6

Event Information …….................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Participation ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9

Registration Fee .................................................................................................................................................................. 9

How to apply ............................................................................................................................. ........................................... 9

Official Language ................................................................................................................................................................ 9

FAI Jury ………………................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Prize ……………………................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Preliminary Schedule ......................................................................................................................................................... 9

Event timetable .................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Regulation ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 11

Qualification …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 11

Radio Control Frequency ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 11

Video Transmitter ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 11

FPV Cameras ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 11

Timing System …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11

Launch Mode …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 11

LED …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….... 12

Action Cam High-Quality Video Recording …………………………………………………………………………………………... 12

Identification Mark …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 12

Race Rules …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 13

Racing track ….................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Hotels ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Location Map ........................................................................................................................................................................ ............ 16

Safety Regulations ................................................................................................ .......................................................................... 17

All Staff ............................................................................................................................. .......................................................... 17

Runners ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 17

Organizer Contact Detail ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..… 18


General Information

Race Dates 2nd and 3rd of November

Location Jeonju World Cup Auxiliary Stadium

1055 Girindae-ro,

Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si

Jeonbuk, South Korea

Distance Airport – Racetrack 260 km (Incheon Airport)

Track Length 400 m

Local Time GMT +9

Currency Exchange Won (KRW): (1 USD = 1,215 KRW) ( 1 EUR = 1,329 KRW)

Contact 24/7

Phone Calls Country Code: +82

Adapter Plug Type C & F, 220 V, 60 Hz

Emergency Number International emergency number: 063-1330 (in Seoul, simply dial 1330)

Police: 112 (may be used for all emergencies)

Emergency Rescue (Fire and Ambulance): 119

Medical Emergency: 129

Hospitals Jeonbuk University Hospital

20 Gunji-ro,



Pharmacy Dongsan Jongro Pharmacy

6 Pyeonwoon-ro,



Weather In November, the weather in Jeonju is usually clear with the temperature

getting ready for winter. The average Temperature would be around 11

degrees Celsius with the lowest Temperature of 5 degrees Celsius.

Hence make sure you bring warm clothing like: winter jacket, good footwear

and hoodies with you to keep yourself warm.


City of Jeonju

Jeonju is the 16th largest city in South Korea and the capital of North Jeolla Province. The name Jeonju literally

means “Perfect Region”. It is an important Tourist Center famous for Korean food, historic buildings, sports

activities, and innovative festivals. In May 2012, Jeonju was chosen as a Creative Cities for Gastronomy as part

of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network. This honor recognizes the city’s traditional home cooking handed down

over thousand of years. Also, as a leading city of drone, Jeonju is the founder city of drone soccer.


Jeonju World Cup Stadium

Places around Jeonju World Cup Stadium is on the process of becoming Korea’s Complex Sports Town having

the only domestic indoor drone soccer field. The racing competition is planned to be held at the world cup

auxiliary stadium.


Transportation

By Bus Terminal 1

Take a Bus on 1st floor 12-B platform going to Jeonju

Terminal 2

Take a Bus on the B1 level platform 9 going to Jeonju


The price of the express bus to Jeonju would vary on the type of the bus and it would take about 4 hours.

4 hours


Bus Terminal Hotel

World Cup Stadium


Event Information Participation The number of registered pilots is limited to 50.

Registration Fee €80 Euro

* All pilots including pilots who are invited are required to pay the registration fee. Insurance is included in the

registration fee.

* Payment option

Paypal: [email protected]

How to apply Registration process must be completed at this address:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QWmIUl29ATV9xPOh6hqp9Idg0yjGkACotuFPafqIT3Q/viewform?edit_request

ed=true

Official Language Official contest language: English and Korean.

English language always prevails concerning all elements of the competition, namely FAI documents, competition

rules and Bulletins.

FAI Jury - Bruno DELOR (FRA)

- SoonCheon PARK (KOR)

- Sotir Simeonov LAZARKOV (BGR)

Prize ⚫ 1st Place $5,000

⚫ 2nd Place $2,500

⚫ 3rd Place $1,500

⚫ 4th Place $1,000

$ = USD

- The top 3 players will be given direct qualification to the 2019 Ningbo FAI World Drone Racing Championship.

Preliminary Schedule Nov 1(Friday): Model Processing & Official Practice

Nov 2(Saturday): Qualifying Round

Nov 3(Sunday): Final Round

* Please note schedule may be subject to change due to inclement situation.

Nov 1 (Friday)

11:00-12:00 Rule Meeting

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Model Processing

14:30-16:00 Practice Round 1

16:20-17:50 Practice Round 2

18:00-19:30 Practice Round 3 (Night Race)

* We will support Lunch (Korean Lunch Box)

Nov 2(Saturday) T.B.A.

Nov 3(Sunday) T.B.A.

mailto:[email protected]

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Event Timetable

Nov. 1 (Friday) Nov.2 (Saturday) Nov. 3 (Sunday)

Time Racing Soccer Clash Events Racing Soccer Clash Events Racing Soccer Clash Events

09:00-

10:00

10:00-

11:00

Qualifying

Round

Experience

Zone

International

Friendly Drone

Soccer Match

Experience

Zone

11:00-

12:00 Rule

Meeting

Drone Soccer

Introduction

and

Showcase

Experience

Zone

Drone Sports

Experience

/

Chimac

Picnic

Drone Sports

Experience

/

Chimac

Picnic

Drone

Sports

Experience

/

Chimac

Picnic

12:00-

13:00

13:00-

14:00

Course

Practice

Youth Drone

Soccer

Invitational

Match

Exhibition

Match &

Experience

Zone

Qualifying

Round

Jeonju City

Drone Soccer

Competition

Experience

Elimination

Round

International

Friendly Drone

Soccer Match

Exhibition

Match

& Experience

Zone 14:00-

15:00 Invitational

Match 15:00-

16:00

Invitational

Match 16:00-

17:00 Exhibition

Match

& Experience

Zone

Finals

17:00-

18:00

Exhibition

Match

&

Experience

Zone

18:00-

19:00

Opening Ceremony

Qualifying

Round

Jeonju City

Drone Soccer

Competition

19:00-

20:00

Awarding Ceremony

20:00-

21:00


Regulation FAI Sporting Code Section 4 Aeromodelling Volume ‘Volume F9 Drone Sports (Edition 1st May 2019)’

Download -> https://www.fai.org/sites/default/files/ciam/wcup_drones/sc4_vol_f9_dronesport_19-3_0.pdf

Qualifications All pilots with an FAI license

Notes:

- FAI Sporting Licence is not required for helpers

- Specific situations regarding FAI Sporting Licence of the eventual individual competitors invited by FAI will be

treated case by case

- Every FAI Sporting Licence must be registered in the FAI database

- The holder of an FAI Sporting Licence may be required to produce an official document bearing their

photograph and signature as proof of identity

- If you do not have FAI Sporting license, please acquire the license at the link provided below.

◼ https://droneracing.aero/registration

Radio Control Frequency 2.4GHz, Crossfire available

Video Transmitter TBS Unify Pro 5G8 HV – RACE (SMA), ImmersionRC tramp HV, Rush.

* The VTX must be able to adjust the transmission power, from 25mW to 200mW.

* Basic 25mW

We recommend the pilots to use personal receiver. However, if the pilot would like to use the Ground Station

provided by the organizer, the pilot will have to prepare the cable and jack to fit in the pilot’s personal goggle as it

would not be provided. (Please refer to the picture below)

FPV Cameras NTSC Cameras must be used during the race (NTSC is the video standard in Korea).

Timing system A Electronic timing system (back up is manual timing)

Launch Mode Launch Mode is not available.

https://www.fai.org/sites/default/files/ciam/wcup_drones/sc4_vol_f9_dronesport_19-3_0.pdf

https://droneracing.aero/registration


LED - 40 LED’s minimum (4 on bottom and 4 on top on each of the 4 arms of the model + 8 on the sides of the

body

- RGB controller to program the assigned colour before each race

- Mandatory colours: Blue – Green – Orange – Pink – Purple – Red – Yellow

- Competitors are allowed to use their own LED light unit subject to strictly respect the requirements and as

long as the competitor can change easily the colour just before the race

Action Cam High-Quality Video Recording From the 1st Elimination Round, each quad must have Action Cam with at least 1024p resolution for video

recording purpose.

Recorded video (SD card) must be submitted to race organizer after you finish the race.

The ownership of the submitted video footage belongs to the organizer, and pilots may not use them for

commercial purposes or promotion of other races.

Identification Mark Each model shall carry in a clearly visible the three (3) letters national identification mark followed by the FAI

Sporting License ID number

The letters and numbers must be at least 6 mm high and appear at least once on each model.


Race rules

- 4 pilots will race in a same group. Each quad should take off within 30 seconds of the start signal, any quad

remaining on the start line after the 30 seconds will be automatically deemed defective and automatically

disqualified. Once a disqualification is given the pilot must disarm the quad and place controller down.

- Each race is composed of three (3) laps.

- Lap times during the three (3) allocation laps will be used for qualifying. Each racer’s fastest individual lap

time for the 3 rounds (each round total lap) will be used for qualifying.

- Top 32 pilots wil be advance to finals

- All rules regarding the penalties and race composition is based on FAI rules (F9U, FPV Racing World Cupt

Rules). We adopt “Elimination stage” method for finals according to FAI rules

* 5-min. Rule 5-min. rule is applied to pilots during the race. It means that a pilot is given 5 minutes from the moment his or her

name is called for the race to the one he or she is ready to start the flight. Any pilots who fail to get ready for the

race within 5 minutes will be disqualified.


Race Track


Hotels

The Classic Hotel

Price: \110,000 for Deluxe double or twin room per night

Address: 19-21 Ohgong-ro, Ihseo-myeon, Wanju-gun, Jeonbuk

Hotel Maru

Price: \80,000 for king bed or twin bed room per night


Idun Hotel

Price: \70,000 for Deluxe double and Premium double and \80,000 for Superior twin room per night



Location Map

No. Facility Name No. Facility Name

1 Drone Racing Stadium 9 Rule Meeting Room

2 Audience Pathway 10 Drone Clash Showcase

3 Drone Register Zone 11 Drone Sports Experience

4 Player Awaiting Zone 12 Food Court

5 Judge/Operating Headquarter 13 Emergency

6 Drone Soccer Field 14 VIP Seats

7 VIP Lounge 15 STAGE

8 Media Room


Safety Regulations

All Staff

There are certain rules, which everyone involved in the event need to follow, while working on the event

site. These rules apply for each event and it is important that they must be strictly adhered to. Following

you will find the rules, which apply to everyone working for the competition:

1. While flying, no Staff is allowed to enter the race track nor stay anywhere on Track. Nevertheless,

if a person has not enough time to exit the Track, she/he needs to find a protected area as soon

as possible. Exceptions are cameramen located on the track and photographers (These Persons

NEED to wear helmets at all time, whilst being on the track)

2. In case a drone, which crashed into the net, is catching fire, the closest person located to this

drone has to get IMMEDIATELY a fire extinguisher and put out the fire, from outside of the

track, regardless if drones are still flying. In case of fire, the race will be stopped immediately by

the Chief Judge/Race Director.

Runners

Runners, which work for the competition must follow special rules, as they are exposed to threats while

working on the race track.

Before the first Practice of the race weekend, all Runners will receive a 20-minute safety briefing. In

order to identify dangerous situations and correct handling of the drones.

Following you will find the rules, which apply to all Runners working for the competition:

3. The above Rule Sets 1 & 2 also apply to every Runner located by the track.

4. Every Runner must wear gloves and a helmet.

5. The Head Runners (which have received Radios) must report to the Head Drone Marshall, that

the Track is “free”, when all Drones have been recovered and all Runners have exited the track. If

not, Head Runners must report that track is still “blocked”. The Track is only free, when the Head

Drone Marshall has received from all Head Runners clearance!

6. At each position of a Runner, a fire distinguisher (CO2) or a bucket of sand needs to be

available.

7. In case of smoke from battery, a Runner needs to UNPLUG battery as fast as possible and put

the battery inside the bucket with sand.


Organizer Contact Details

Korea Aero Model Association(KAMA)

Contact Person: Sooncheon Park

Email: [email protected]

Mobile: +82 10 3712 4742

FUSPO (Local Organizer)

Contact Person: Jin Song

Email: [email protected]

Mobile: +82 10 4363 2031

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