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The Golden Site of Perpetual Flight
The 6th annual El Peñón Classic Race is back again this February 2018, hosted by Vuelo Libre Mexico in everyone’s favorite thermal heaven, Valle de Bravo, Mexico. This FAI Sport Class sanctioned event will see a wide variety of pilots flocking to enjoy the famously idyllic conditions, and exciting tasks.
Flying site
Valle de Bravo is known for being not only a good place to fly but also for its consistency of many good and reliable flyable days. The best flying season starts on January and it goes until April when the rain season starts.
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Prize funds and scoring categories
- Sport Class 1
- Women Sport Class 1
- Single surface
Contacts
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Organizer
- Rudy Gotes
- +521 722 3668846
- rudy@vuelolibre.mx
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Airtribune
- Daniel Velez
- +573104487870
- danielvelezbravo@hotmail.com
Event info
The Golden Site of Perpetual Flight
The 6th annual El Peñón Classic Race is back again this February 2018, hosted by Vuelo Libre Mexico in everyone’s favorite thermal heaven, Valle de Bravo, Mexico. This FAI Sport Class sanctioned event will see a wide variety of pilots flocking to enjoy the famously idyllic conditions, and exciting tasks. Pilots will be able to enjoy two practice days, and five competition days, with tasks ranging from about 40 km to 65km, before wrapping up the fun with closing ceremonies and pilot dinner.
For those who haven’t visited this magical spot, incredibly, every day is flyable, offering plentiful thermals and convergence lift. Valle itself is a gorgeous little lakeside town with plenty of activities, and top notch restaurants and bars to enjoy a victory mezcal, or recharge after a long day of flying.
The competition meet director this year is master rated pilot, and advanced instructor, Mitch Shipley, of whom all of you know on the comp circuit, as having a long record of supporting a fun, organized, and safe competition.
A landing clinic with Mitch will also be scheduled near the event for those interested in hanging a little longer in paradise and brushing up on the most crucial skill to safe flying.
The competition fee includes score keeping, competition director, t-shirt, ambulance, task and briefing, water and shaded area at take off, and dinner party at prize giving ceremony in the landing zone on the last day.
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Selection and entry fee
Prize fund and scoring categories
Se premiará con trofeo a los 3 primeros lugares de la clase 1 sport, a los 3 primeros lugares de la categoría femenina y al primer puesto de la categoría simple superficie.
General schedule
Feb 24 Training day
Feb 25 March 2, six tasks.
March 2 Closing Ceremony
General Schedule
Saturday, Feb. 24, 2019
Training day
09:00 Depart to Launch from HQ
11:00 Training task briefing
12:00 - Take-off window opens
17:00 - 19:00 Pilots registration at HQ
19:00 Mandatory safety briefing
Sunday, Feb. 25, 2019 to Saturday, March 2, 2019
Contest flying days
09:00 Depart to Launch from HQ
11:00 Task briefing at Take off
12:00 - Take-off window opens
Saturday, March. 2, 2019
20:00 Prize-giving and closing ceremony
Daily schedule
10:30 - Meet Director / Task and Safety Committee meetings
11:00 - Pilots' briefing / Previous task official results / Task definition
12:00 - Take-off window opens
17:00 - Scoring office opens
21:00 - Provisional results
Accommodation and Activities
There is wide range of accommodation available in Valle del Bravo. We suggest you to use www.airbnb.com or www.hotels.com/ to explore the options in your price range and personal requirements.
Things to do
This is the season of the Monarch Butterflies. Visit the Piedra Herrada Sanctuary in Valle de Bravo to see where these beautiful creatures reside after the long migration from Canada
How to get here
By plane: You can arrive to either the Toluca International or Mexico City International Airport. From there you need to arrange transportation to Valle de Bravo, which is a 3 hour drive from the Mexico City Airport, and 1.5 hours from Toluca. We can help organize transportation from the airport if needed. Please contact us with any questions you have at rudy@vuelolibre.mx
Headquarters: Vuelo Libre Mexico
De Manuel 100, Sta Maria Ahuacatlan, 51200 Valle de Bravo, Méx.
51200, De Manuel 115, Sta Maria Ahuacatlan, Valle de Bravo, Méx., México
Valle de Bravo Mexico
Plane
First, get your flight directly to Mexico City.
Web: http://www.aicm.com.mx/
Having the extra ride on an airplane to the Toluca airport is a waste of money and not that much time saving as you could believe.
Bus
To take a bus ride to Valle go to bus station named "Observatorio" (Observatory). Taxi from Mexico airport to bus station cost $200 Mexican pesos (around 11 euros)
Time schedules for the Valle the bravo bus may vary, but basically you will find daily departures from 5:00 AM up to 5:00 PM, one every hour. (For example, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15 and so on)
Be sure to buy and to ride the "Libramiento" bus route to Valle and *NOT* the "Amanalco" route. The new "Libramiento" route will take you to Valle in less than three hours thanks to the fact that about half of the way uses the new highway.
Car
You can rent a car at Mexico city airport
Web: http://www.aicm.com.mx/
Take off is located 45 min drive away of Valle de Bravo in direction to Temascaltepec.
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Organizers
rudy@vuelolibre.mx
mobile ph +521 722 3668846
Contacts
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Organizer
- Rudy Gotes
- +521 722 3668846
- rudy@vuelolibre.mx
-
Airtribune
- Daniel Velez
- +573104487870
- danielvelezbravo@hotmail.com
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Success.
Excelling performance.
Women Sport Class 1
- Sara Weaver (13)
- Patricia Garcia de Letona (909)
- Emma Godinez (5)
Tenacious women on big air conditions, dealing with ease on the sport class gliders.
Sport Class 1
- Fermin Tello Toledo (22)
- Cloch Jaramillo (45)
- Daniel Jaramillo (579)
Fighting until the end. The sport pilots on the competition showed us how to race from the start. Leading points almost went to these three guys alone. First place was Alfredo Tello Toledo (Potro) but he did not use Airtribune for registration so Im using his brother Fermin (Poni) for filling up his place.
Sport Class 1 resultsSport Class 1
- Daniel Velez (CO)
- Zac Mayors (USA)
- Rudy Gotes (MEX)
The 4 Open class pilots attending the event got the first 4 spots, flying Sport class gliders of course.
Sport Class 1 resultsTasks and results
Task 1
25 Feb, 2019
Class 1 Sport — 43.5 km — Race to goal
Task 2
26 Feb, 2019
Class 1 Sport — 57.6 km — Race to goal
Task 3
27 Feb, 2019
Class 1 Sport — 61.8 km — Race to goal
Task 4
28 Feb, 2019
Class 1 Sport — 53.5 km — Race to goal
Task 5
01 Mar, 2019
Class 1 Sport — 64.6 km — Race to goal
Task 6
02 Mar, 2019
Class 1 Sport — 35.6 km — Race to goal