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Can anyone tell me how overfly is calculated and how it works in National races please....

If two lofts sit in a straight line from the race site, the loft farther away has "overfly" equal to the extra distance between them.Calculation: Race results are determined by velocity (distance divided by time). A pigeon with overfly must fly that extra distance, meaning its total recorded miles are higher.Time allowance: Because the longer-flying pigeon spends more physical time in the air covering that extra distance, calculations adjust to balance the time-per-mile difference between lofts.

Diamond Dave wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2026 2:01 pm Can anyone tell me how overfly is calculated and how it works in National races please....

Overfly is not calculated as such. As every competitor fly's a different distance Dave. So to make it fair for all, the longer you fly the more time you are allowed. So a fancier flying 400 miles will get twice the time to clock an arrival, than somebody flying 200 miles. Everybody's race closes at a set velocity, 220 ypm for the NFC. So as the race unfolds the race the race will close where ever you are at 220 ypm.
You won't know when your race time ends without working it out.

Dave the race is worked out by highest velocity as you know, to arrive at that, you take your miles, multiply them by 1760, to get the miles to yards, you then add your yards, and then multiply by 60, to what we call your sixtieths. You then take your actual flying time, hrs to min, and then to seconds. your total number of seconds, is then divided into your sixtieths, to give you your yards per minute.