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Event info
The French paragliding championship welcomes you at Montclar, France. It will be held from 1st till 6th of September, 2014 with no rest days. This well-known paragliding site has already hosted the french open 20 years ago in 1994, and the world championship 3 years earlier.
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Montclar is the well known flying site in the Southern Alps, famous due to its generous aerology. For the last twenty years this paragliding site has hosted many important competitions, such as the French open, World championship, British Opens and several Pre-PWCs.
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Prize funds and scoring categories
- Overall
- Women
- Teams
- French National
Contacts
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General questions
- Oragnization Competition
- 33607308005
- info@france2014parapente.com
Event info
The French paragliding championship welcomes you at Montclar, France. It will be held from 1st till 6th of September, 2014 with no rest days. This well-known paragliding site has already hosted the french open 20 years ago in 1994, and the world championship 3 years earlier. For these happy years, several others competitions took place here among whom a pre-PWC and 2 British open. The "St André-Dormillouse" is one of the most famous distance flight in the Alps, which have been done again and again, with a final rush to the the Serre-Poncon lake after un long ride on the highway of the crests of the Blanche... Serre-Ponçon and Montclar are also famous for its beautiful nature, which allow even water sports, rest in front of a varied landscape, hikes in the mountains, or still descent single road in bike. September is generally a good flighing season, and it promises us a great show during which 120 pilots will push the bar to reach the goal at first ! Good luck, boys and girls...
Selection and entry fee
Registration and payment are through ffvl website: http://parapente.ffvl.fr/compet/2447Gliders selection rules are here: http://parapente.ffvl.fr/communique-ffvl-n4-relatif-aux-ailes-competition
At French Open we are going to use Airtribune new live tracking solution with Android smartphones.
We kindly invite you to join us and use its benefits:
- High quality 1 sec tracking
- Built-in chat with retrieve
- Precise tracklogs as back up
- Possibility to analyse your track in replay right after the flight.
You will have a chance to evaluate the solution at our comp for your further needs.
To use it you need an Android smartphone (version 4+) and SIM card with Internet.
The app uses 50 kb of traffic per hour.An external USB battery allow you to use phone as long as you need regardless the length of the task.
Prize fund and scoring categories
1, 2, 3 ranked in Female
General schedule
Registration
Monday, 1 September - Saturday, 6 September, 2014
Contest flying days
Saturday, 6 September, 2014
16.00 Prize-giving and Closing ceremony
Daily schedule
11:00 – Task briefing
13:00 – Window opens
16:00 – Scoring ang provisional results
Accommodation and Activities
Accomodations offer for pilots: http://www.france2014parapente.com/se-loger/
How to get here
HQ is located at Blanche Ascendance club.
Montclar is located in Provence-Alps-Cote dÁzur region. You can come by A51 from Grenoble and Marcelle, N85 from Paris or N94 from Briancon. The nearest airports are Nice and Geneve.
France , 04140 , MONTCLAR , COL SAINT JEAN
Montclar France
Plane
Airports
The nearest main international airport is Nice (3 hours drive) or Marseille (2 hours). Both airport are serviced by several airlines from around Europe.
Car
An hour's drive from Gap.
St Jean Montclar is about a 10 hour drive from Calais/Dunkirk, about 3 hours from southern France and just under 3 hours from Nice Airport. There are other airports in the region too.
Car hire:
There are a multitude of car hire companies operating out of all the airports.
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Waypoint files
Organizers
Contacts
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General questions
- Oragnization Competition
- 33607308005
- info@france2014parapente.com
Socials
Category | Tagline | Participant | Phone | Description | Price |
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French National
- Charles CAZAUX (26)
- Honorin HAMARD (5312)
- Jonathan MARIN (5259)
The French Champions!
French National resultsWomen
- Seiko FUKUOKA NAVILLE (5609)
- Laurie GENOVESE (5478)
- Bénédicte SAURY-JOURDAIN (5119)
All French champions together!
Women results