Racing and Membership

How to set up your pilot record, register for and view results of Safety Third Races.

Race Directors

Link	Description
First Time Pilots	First Time Pilots
Join the Team	Join the Team
Find Other Pilots	Find other Pilots
How to register for a race	How to register for a race
General Event Guidelines	Helpful information about our events
Event Formats	Racing Formats
Event Locations	Event Locations
Track Layouts	Track Layouts

Internet sites we use to coordinate our events

Why so many!

• Meetup is a huge social media site that brings people together to join groups unified by a common interest. The site has great features for member coordination, messaging, waitlist, group conversation, media posting, etc. We have over 800 members across all our meetup groups. Many of those folks have a passing interest and eventually come out and fly. Posting our events on meetup advertises our activity to the larger community of drone enthusiasts in addition to the core FPV Racers. Think of our meetup groups as our outreach to help grow the sport. In fact, the family of Safety Third Racing meetup groups is one of the largest FPV Racing Meetup communities in the world! We need to keep those meetups active so we continue to introduce FPV racing to everyone in the Tri State Area that want so to learn, build, and race!

• MultiGP is a kind of like a highly customized version of meetup just for FPV Racing. It has excellent features very specific to setting up FPV races, pilots, heats, scoring for events. Since we are one of the largest MultiGP groups, we use this site to register our pilots and award MultiGP points that are shared within the whole MGP community.

• Facebook - Hey enough said! Sometimes we post events on FB that link to the Meetup/MPG events to help advertize the events.

• Slack - If you are not on our slack, you are really missing out. Ask for an invite!

Event Materials

Event Materials

First time attendees - Fill out this form https://goo.gl/forms/EFVTqsyFa6qCaNuz1

Event Guidelines here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cz28hKxQE2Vz_NIrxx8QoCy0MYG_5mJdTL81tKl6S3o/edit?usp=sharing

Setting up your pilot record

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Creating a MultGP Pilot Record

Add a drone to your pilot record

Join the Safety Third Chapter

Registering for a Race

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Safety Third Racing Guidelines

Joining a Race

Checking into a Race

Racing Formats

FORMAT A - Max laps to qualify racing heats.

Format A	Description
Free Fly Practice for early arrivals	Pilots queue up according to frequency and fly 1 pack or 2 crashes. 2 min breaks for arriving pilots to set frequencies.
Pilot Event Speech	Race Director outlines the schedule of events
Structured Practice Round 1	All pilots fly in 5-minute heats, field retrievals after crashing allowed, working out freq/equip issues
Structured Practice Round 2	All pilots fly in 2-minute heats, field retrievals after crashing NOT allowed, prep for qualifiers
Qualifying Heats	All Pilots fly in 3-4 rounds for 2 min heats. Completed laps are recorded and accumulated. Qualifying pilots (usually 8) advance to elimination heats. No Spotters unless the pilots arranges one.
Elimination Heats	Qualified pilots race for 3 rounds against each other for 3 laps. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place are awarded 10,5,2 points respectively. You must complete 3 laps to qualify for points. Qualified pilots (usually 4) advance to semi-final heats. Heats are seeded based on the qualifying heats. Pilots must bring a spotter with them to the line.
Semi Final Heats	All points are reset. Qualified pilots race for 3 rounds against each other for 3 laps. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place are awarded 10,5,2 points respectively. You must complete 3 laps to qualify for points. Qualified pilots (usually 2) advance to final heats. Heats are seeded based on the qualifying heats if more than 5 pilots are racing. Pilots must bring a spotter with them to the line.
Final Heats	All points are reset. Qualified pilots race for 3 rounds against each other for 3 laps. 1st and 2nd are awarded 10,5 points respectively. You must complete 3 laps to qualify for points. Pilots must bring a spotter with them to the line.