Hang Gliding and Paragliding Volume 44 / Issue 3: March 2014 | Page 50

ABOVE William Deley climbing out over the

Butte Valley | photo by Reavis Sutphin-Gray.
BELOW Pilot briefing at Whaleback | photo
by Jugdeep Aggarwal.
EN A and EN B gliders (Category 3).
This has resulted in a much leveled
playing field.
One of the key objectives of the
league is to allow those pilots who
cannot make all 17 tasks an opportunity of winning. So, similar to the
PWC league, pilots’ final scores are
taken from their own scores for half
of the tasks set, enabling a pilot to
win, even if he or she did not attend
all tasks. Clearly, however, it is more
advantageous to attend as many tasks
as possible.
Since this is really only a fly-in with
a mission, registration costs have been
kept to a modest $15 per person, per

50

HANG GLIDING & PARAGLIDING MAGAZINE

race. For this, pilots get to compete and
be scored in the tasks that are scored in
an identical way to the bigger competitions. $5 of the fee goes to a communal pot, which gets split between the
drivers and any large vehicles that are

used. Non-competing pilots are always
welcome, since they help map out the
air for competing pilots.
Regular attendees have gotten into
the swing of things, reducing the task
load on the organizer substantially.