Blog | FAI Paragliding Pre Worlds 2018 - Macedonian ¬ Hungarian Open

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Registration

136 Pilots Confirmed
136 Pilots total registered

130 Pilots max allowed
19 Countries presented
✅ All certified wings allowed
🏆 FAI Status = CAT 2 🏅

left before start of event

Contacts

General Organizer, Meet Director
- Goran Dimiskovski
- +41 79 26 29 989
- dimiskovskigoran@gmail.com
General organizer, Safety Director
- Jovanoski Martin
- +389 71 740 028
- jovanoskimartin@gmail.com

Event info

FAI Pre Worlds 2018, together with Macedonian and Hungarian Open 2018, is designed as a prestigious event with a main goal of presenting the Krushevo flying arena to all categories of pilots. Friendly task setting with a main goal to reconfirm well known, or to establish a new task courses, will be implemented. Happening in the best period of the year for this flying site, attending this event is giving you an opportunity to fly a lot, in a competitive surrounding, confirming, or developing your flying skills, under the supervision of the team that has been granted the organization of 2019 FAI Paragliding World Championship. Nevertheless, the comp is back to back with the British Open 2018, happening at the same venue and organized by the same team.

Flying site

Situated at an altitude of 1350m, Krushevo is the highest town in the Balkans, 159 km from the capital Skopje, 55 km from Bitola, 32 km from Prilep, and only 68 km from the Macedonian - Greek crossing border “Medzitlia - Niki”. Main takeoff places are East and West starts. Very comfortable even for beginners they also enjoy excellent (in mountain terms) roads connections.
East Start 1420m ASL (41.340802, 21.256547)
It is facing east - northeast towards Pelagonia Valley. It is several minutes drive from the town and an asphalt road goes almost through the launch. When you take the paraglider out from the car, it is already on the place where it should be open. Lazy pilots will love this launch. East Start is a grassy shallow slope bordered by big trees from the South, which offers thick shadows in sunny days.
Home thermals are everywhere: on the left, on the right side from the take off and sometimes straight ahead.
All kind of different cross-country flights can be made from East start. Usual flights are out-and-return to town Prilep to the East, all kind of triangles and zigzags in the valley or over the ridge or distance flights to the South up to the Greek border. Coming back from the South is quite difficult because in "normal" summer afternoon light north wind is blowing through the valley. A good road connection helps coming back.
West Start 1440m ASL
It's a secondary smaller take off place facing west - southwest, it is 500 meters away from East Start. Cars, again, can be driven right up to the launch.
The same cross-country flights can be done from here. Landing fields under this launch are smaller than on the other side of mountain where there are very large fields, mostly grassy. This launch can also be used for beginners so landings should suit competition pilots too!

Selection and entry fee

Entry Fee:
190, 00 € up to 20th of June
220, 00 € up to 1st of August

Payment instructions:
In favor of:
Goran Dimiskovski
Chemin de la Flechere 13
1255 Veyrier
Switzerland

IBAN CH35 8018 7000 0243 4493 2
Bank details:
Banque Raiffeisen du Salave societe cooperative
Case postale 160
1255 Veyrier
Bank code: 80187
Intermediary bank:
Raiffesen Suisse Societe cooperative
Raiffeisenplatz
Case postale
9001 Saint-Gall
Suisse

Swift:
RAIFCH22

Out of the 130 spots 50 spots are reserved for Hungarian Pilots up to 1st of June.
Out of the 130 spots 10 spots are reserved for Macedonian Pilots up to 1st of June.

If this spots are not filled up buy Hungarian or Macedonian Pilots up to the deadline of the 1st of June, they are becoming available for all pilots.

Wild Cards:
Local organizers preserve the right to alocate 10 Wild Cards after April 1st not following the above mentioned criteria at any time of the selection process.

Selection criteria for this comp is based on the time stamp of your registration i.e first come - first served basis.

Payment:
Deadline for the payment of the entry fee is 7 days after official confirmation has been made to the potentional participant.

Prize fund and scoring categories

FAI Pre Worlds, Overall ranking, (all certified gliders, incl. CCC, all pilots, all nationalities) 1st, 2nd, 3rd

FAI Pre Worlds, Women Ranking, (all certified gliders, incl. CCC, only female, all nationalities) 1st, 2nd, 3rd

FAI Pre Worlds, Sports Class, (all gliders certified up to EN/LTF C, all nationalities) 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

Please note:
In case of less than 8 participants in a specific class, there will be a prize only for the first place.
If there are more than 8 participants in a specific class, there will be prizes for places 1-3.

Macedonian Open - Exclusively for Macedonian pilots - following Macedonian National rules (to be described in detail in the local regulations of the competition.

Hungarian Open - Exclusively for Hungarian pilots - following Hungarian National rules (to be described in detail in the local regulations of the competition).

General schedule

Program:

Training day:
5th of August

Official Registration:
5th of August, 16h00 – 19h15
Hotel Montana, Competition Headquarters

1st National Opens Orgnizers meeting:
5th of August, 18h30 – 19h15
Hotel Montana Meeting Room

Mandatory Safety Briefing:
5th of August, 19h30 – 20h45
Hotel Montana Congress Hall

Welcome drink:
5th of August, 21h00
Hotel Montana Bar and Terrace

Contest flying days:
6th of August to 11th of August
(maximum of 6 competition tasks)

Prize-giving and Closing Ceremony:
11th of August 20h00
Krushevo Main Square or Montana Hotel
(depending on weather conditions)

The program is subject to change.
Any changes of the program of the competition before the start of the competition will be announced at the website of the competition. After the start of the competition, changes will be announced by the Meet Director at the official daily briefings and posted on the official board at
headquarters.

Daily schedule

Competition days:

08h30: Headquarters open
08h45: Team Leader meeting - Complaints , Protests status - result
09h30: Transportation to take off
10h15: Task and Safety Committee meetings (flexible timings)
11h15: Pilot briefing/Task briefing (flexible timings)
12h00: Take-off window opens (depending on the actual weather conditions) (flexible timings)
16h00: Scoring office opens
21h00: Provisional results (depending on the last pilot being retrieved) (flexible timings)

The daily schedule is subject to change.
Any changes of the daily schedule before the start of the competition will be announced at the website of the competition. After the start of the competition, changes will be announced by the Meet Director at the official daily briefings and posted on the official board at headquarters.

Accommodation and Activities

Hotel Montana Palace is providing all services during the comp.
HQ, parties, Opening and closing ceremony.
Highly recommended accommodation venue.
http://www.montanapalace.com/

How to get here

Krusevo is about 2h30 drive (160 km) from Skopje Airport. Local transportation, from and back to, Skopje airport will be provided by the Organizers.
Fee applies.

Gjupsko Maalo, Krushevo, Macedonia (FYROM)
Krushevo North Macedonia

Plane

International airports in Skopje and Ohrid connects Macedonia with several major European cities. Close regional airports in Belgrade, Sofia and Thessaloniki can also be used, as they are all within a few hours' drive from Macedonia.

Low cost airlines flying to Macedonia
TurkishAirlines http://www.turkishairlines.com - Turkey, Russia, Brazil, India, Israel, Spain, Canada, China, Korea, Norway, France, CzechRepublic, SouthAfrica, Japan, UnitedStates,Ukraine.
SWISS http://www.swiss.com - Denmark, Brazil, India, Israel, Spain, Canada, Norway, Poland, France, CzechRepublic, Japan, SouthAfrica, UnitedStates
WizzAir, WizzAirUkraine http://wizzair.com/ - Great Britain, Italy
Air Berlin http://www.airberlin.com, TUIfly http://www.tuifly.com/de/index.html - Germany, Spain, Canada, Switzerland, UnitedStates
Pegasus http://www.flypgs.com - Denmark,Israel,Ukraine
CroatiaAirlines http://www.croatiaairlines.com -Netherlands, France, Croatia
Adria http://www.adria.si/ - Slovenia

Bus

A number of bus lines connect Macedonia with all neighbouring countries and other European cities. Buses are frequent, and offer relatively inexpensive fares and professional service. Usually they depart from Skopje bus station.
Travelling on public inter-city buses in Macedonia used to be quite an interesting experience, since it usually included loud folk music and the risk of having to travel next to very different people with sometimes not so pleasant habits, subject to many urban legends and jokes. At present, public buses have improved and most of them have air-conditioning as well. Still, if you decide to travel by a public inter-city bus, do check it first before buying a ticket.

Train

An international train, operating daily, twice a day, connects Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Thessaloniki (Greece) via Macedonia. It stops at Tabanovce (the Macedonia-Serbia border crossing point), Kumanovo, Skopje, Veles, Gradsko, Negotino, DemirKapija, and Gevgelija (Greek border crossing point), as well as a few small villages. From Skopje, Veles and Gradsko there are train connections to Prilep (35 km from Krusevo).

Car

The international highway E-75 runs north-south from Serbia to Greece, bisecting Macedonia. This is the most common route for overland tourists to take for entering Macedonia. There are also good roads connecting the country with Bulgaria to the East and Albania to the West.
Krusevo is on around a 2 hour drive (160 km) from Skopje Airport, via Motorway "Alexander of Macedon"/A1/А1 and A1, or on about 1 h 36 min drive (119.7 km) from Ohrid Airport via E65 and R1305 (note that this path is not a highway).

Rent-a-car
Numerous car-rental companies, run by both Macedonian companies and local representatives of recognized Western companies are available in Macedonia. Among the latter there are Sixth, Avis and Hertz, whereas among the most prominent Macedonian companies one should name Biveks, Ineks, Mn, Ni-Mar Komerc and Putnik-Eurodolar.
Rental car prices in Macedonia generally start from 40-50 euros per day, though for longer periods the rate can be somewhat lower. In order to rent a car, be prepared to present a valid passport and driver's license from your home country.

Driving tips
Driving in Macedonia by car: While roads in Macedonia are generally good, drivers should watch out for falling rock zones in mountainous areas, and dogs, cows and sheep in rural areas. Drivers should also note that in Macedonia it is illegal to talk on a mobile phone while driving, seatbelts are mandatory and headlights have to be on during the day.