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Event info

This FAI2 cross country paragliding competition is held in Eger (Eged hill), one of the most popular flying site of Hungary. The place has three launch grounds that allows pilots choose several directions depending on the wind.

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Flying site

The Nagy –Eged hill is 520m high. It is surrounded with other small hills (max. 500m) from north and a flatland from south. That is why the tasks flown from here are usually include flatland as well as mountain flying.

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  • 60 Pilots max allowed
  • 3 Countries presented
  • ✅ All wing types allowed
  • 🏆 FAI Status = CAT 2 🏅
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Prize funds and scoring categories

  • Overall
  • Sport
  • Fun
  • Woman

Event info

This FAI2 cross country paragliding competition is held in Eger (Eged hill), one of the most popular flying site of Hungary. The place has three launch grounds that allows pilots choose several directions depending on the wind. The comp dates are 18-21 of June, 2015.

Flying site

The Nagy –Eged hill is 520m high. It is surrounded with other small hills (max. 500m) from north and a flatland from south. That is why the tasks flown from here are usually include flatland as well as mountain flying.
Thermal conditions are moderate to medium strong thermals, in average conditions 2-5 m/s. Could base is usually about 2000 m.
The most favorable condition is NW-W wind, and usual flying routes are going towards E-S (also the best in terms of easy retrieval).
Here is a link to check out routes of some of the best flights from here: XContext
Nagy-Eged has been the official site for the Hungarian League for many years
Precautions: nothing serious - no airspace restriction, no dangerous areas.

SE Take off
N47°55.638' E20°25.041' , size enough for 10 gliders at the same time
SW Take off
N47°55.688' E20°24.698' wide enough for 10 gliders at the same time
NW Take off
N47°55.754' E20°24.694' smaller takeoff., allows only 3-4 gliders at the same time

Road connection:
Very good road connections to the landings, very easy to reach as well as in respect of retrieval. From both landings there are dirt roads reaching to the top of the hill (for cars able to drive off road).

Landing – coordinates:
landing W: N47°55.608’ E20°23.952’
landing S: N47°55.260’ E20°26.289’

Selection and entry fee

The Championship is open to all pilots from countries that are members or associated members of FAI. Entry Forms will be filled during the registration.
Pilots
The requirements for a pilot to enter this competition are: to hold valid FAI and pilot license. to prove the airworthy of his glider. not to exceed the maximum number of participants (the limit is 60).
Entry fee
Bank transfer:
Auner Amadé (CIB) 10700062-33361400-51100005 számlaszámra kell utalni a közleményben feltüntetve: "PILÓTA NEVE" (ha el tudjátok számolni a nevezési díjat, kérem jelezzétek számla igényeteket)

10.000 HUF per pilot (cc.30 euro) Entry fees will be paid by Paypal till jun 15, 2015 or during the registration. Paypal link

The entry fee includes: upload of turnpoint’s GPS coordinates, GPS tracklog download, color map. The entry fee does not include: transport to the take-off, retrieve, lunch package and anything that would make it expensive, but we help you for cost price.

Prize fund and scoring categories

AMI League is competition in cross country discipline and it is an open competition. Its results will be calculated in open category as single. Its results will be calculated in open (max EN-D or CCC), sport (max EN C) and fun category (max EN B) if there is 6 competitors per category.Woman category are also scored separately, if they have minimum 4 competitors. All categories compete for FAI points (WPRS). Please, look at the local rules as well as FAI Rule book (section 7, class O), as this competition is FAI 2 category, which automatically implies all FAI rules.

General schedule

Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2015
20:00 - 22:00 Registration
Thursday, Jun. 18, 2015
08:00 - 10:00 Registration
Thursday, Jun. 18, 2015
10:00 - Opening ceremony
Thursday, Jun. 18, 2015
10:15 - Mandatory safety meeting
Thursday, Jun. 18, 2015, 11:30 - First competition briefing
Thursday, Jun. 18, - Sunday, Jun. 21, 2015
Contest flying days
Sunday, Jun. 21, 2015
19:00 - Prize-giving and closing ceremony

Daily schedule

08:00 - Headquarters open
09:00 - Protest result deadline
10:00 - Transport to take-off
11:00 - Task and Safety Committee meetings
11:15 - Pilots briefing / Task definition
12:00 - Take-off window opens
17:00 - Scoring office opens at the main Headquarter
18:00 - Safe landing report deadline
20:00 - Scoring office closes
21:00 - Provisional results
22:00 - Complaints deadline or 1 hour after 1st provisional results

Accommodation and Activities

Free Camp Eger Aeroport
Nótafa guest house link: http://www.notafa.hu/eng/panzio.htm (3.500 HUF/person/day)

How to get here

You can take a train (runs many time a day) or also busses (same - busses running several times throughout a day)
Train - direct route. Bus runs every 2 hours.


Eger Hungary

Plane

The nearest international airport is Budapest.

Bus

There is a bus going to Eger from Budapest 2 times a day. Check the time table here: http://www.volanbusz.hu/hu

Train

There is a direct train from Budapest to Eger. Check the timetable here http://elvira.mavinformatika.hu/

Car

It take about 1,5 hours to get to Eger from Budapest via M3 (135 km)

Downloads

Waypoint files

Organizers

Amade Auner
General Organisation
Szilárd Babik
Meteo Director
Srdjan Stanojevic
Scorer

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Overall

  1. Balazs Racz (154)
  2. Peter Simonics (313)
  3. Dosa Richard (77)

Sport

  1. Boldizsar Bajor
  2. Attila Nyers
  3. Robert Valyi

Fun

  1. Gyula Horak
  2. Peter Szabo
  3. Srdjan Kesic

Woman

  1. Katalin Juhasz
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Tasks and results

Task 1

18 Jun, 2015

50.5 km — Race to goal

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