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VOSGES OPEN : FAI 2 COMPETITION

Organiser : les Eperviers du Treh

LAST MINUTE

Canceled due to bad weather,

Date

12 & 13 May 2007

Summary

As the Vosges mountains are near the german and swiss borders, we decided to open our competition to international class V pilots. You are all welcomed, there is not limit to the number of foreign pilots as in most other "Open" competitions. Please class I pilots, we beg your pardon for this time, if we are successfull, next year we will open it to you too.

This competition takes place on an ordinary week-end, this means 2 days only. As our goal is flying and not queuing for registration, waypoint downloading and so on, pilots are encouraged to do those activities before Saturday morning.

Schedule

Internet registration deadline: Friday May the 11th at 9pm

Headquarter: Syndicat Mixte pour l'aménagement du Markstein Grand-Ballon, little light green house on the right hand side off the church

Late registration and Waypoint downloading for those who didn't do it by Internet: Saturday from 9 till 10am at the headquarter.

Daily meeting point is at 10am at the headquarter where the take off site of the day will be given to you so as acces road, parking instructions and briefing time.

Be aware that with east wind conditions the take off window may open as soon as noon. So pilots should not loose time, in order to have their gliders ready before the start of the briefing

Registration

Registration fees

5¬ for early registered pilots having self loaded the waypoints into their GPS
20¬ for the pilots registrating and/or requiring direct WPT downloading Saturday morning, food brevage and retrieve not provided

Waypoints

Here below, pilots can download the waypoints file to their computer in order to transfer them to their GPS before coming.

Pilots not equiped with the necessary computer software or hardware can either

get help from their fellow club pilots
or get the Waypoints transfer from the organiser Saturday morning from 9 to 10am

Late arriving pilots will still have the possibility to manually enter the coordinates of the few necessary waypoints during the briefing and preflight operations. They will be written on the taskboard in DD°MM,MMM' format.

Waypoint file download

Here you can download the waypoint file on your computer,

Main area JPEG map with waypoints:

Waypoints list with some infos: ListeBalV1.pdf

And for those who still don't own any GPS software, we suggest you the GPSDump freeware with a tutorial explaining how to download the waypoint file to your GPS : http://lavl.free.fr/GPS-et-parapente.html

GPS

Those GPS-PC data transfer cables are available: MLR SP24XC, Garmin with rond inlet, Compeo & Foretrex 101 & 201. Pilots using other GPS models are requested to bring their own PC cable in order to be able to transfer their tracklogs for flight validation.

Scoring

The scoring will be done using the last GAP version available. Pilots having a FAI licence will also score to the WPRS

Local rules

See local rules : http://lavl.free.fr/Vosges-Open-LocalRules.html

Meet Director

Gilbert NICOLINI

Training flights

Pilots wishing to fly in the area during the week before the competition must be aware of the many airspace restrictions applying during the week days. Informations about this are provided at

How to get there?

Leave route N66 at the Fellering exit, cross the village, exiting the village take first right.

Route N66 is from Mulhouse to Epinal, Fellering - 68 (Haut-Rhin) is about 35km from Mulhouse.
-> waypoint A01xxx

Accomodation

Office du tourisme de Saint Amarin: +33 389 821 390

http://www.ot-saint-amarin.com/

and

http://lavl.free.fr/site-parapente-vosges/Hebergement-Thur.html