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Event info
Apia 2018 Open Valle del Risaralda , will take place in Apia , Colombia from 24 to 31 January 2018. This is a FAI Second Category Event ID: , Event in Cross Country discipline.
Important: This will be mandatory to use the -APP live tracker, in your smartphone mobile, it will be necessary for recovery and rescue.
Flying site
Apía is a town and municipality in the Department of Risaralda, Colombia. It is located at an elevation of 1,630 metres, about 60 km away from district capital Pereira in the valley of the Apia river. The town has excellent views over the Tatamá Hill which is part of the Tatamá Nature Park.
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Prize funds and scoring categories
- OPEN
- SERIAL
- SPORT
- WOMEN
Contacts
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Meet Director
- Alejandro Bermudez
- +573147144333
- copavientos@hotmail.com
Event info
Apia 2018 Open Valle del Risaralda , will take place in Apia , Colombia from 24 to 31 January 2018. This is a FAI Second Category Event ID: , Event in Cross Country discipline.
Important: This will be mandatory to use the -APP live tracker, in your smartphone mobile, it will be necessary for recovery and rescue.
Using data for the mobile, has a cost of $ 15,000 COP, for a week, and we recommend for better coverage, Movistar, claro, tigo.
2018 Open Valle De Risaraida FAI 2 - Colombian paragliding championship Cross Country. It is the other round of XC Paragliding league and also the Second FAI 2 cross country event in the country for the season of 2018. For the third time the club Free Flight Winds organizes a valid National Paragliding Championship 2017, we believe have the capacity to have a high profile event logistics, we constantly work to promote our flying site, which thanks to its mountains, valleys and topography allows good distance flights around the valley of Risaralda and north of the valley.
Participants pilots can score points for the 2017 Paragliding National Championships for the National Ranking and the International Ranking of the FAI.
Since this takeoff in the coffee heart of Colombia, the 2 longest flights have been made in a straight line, both in paragliding and hang gliding, with flights of more than 210 kms and 6 hours in the air, besides having a magnificent landscape surrounded of natural park, rivers, coffee, sugarcane.
Apia Risaralda, is located 55 kms from Pereira airport
Selection and entry fee
Prize fund and scoring categories
Open Class (EN-CCC)
Serial Class (EN D- 3 bandas)
Sport (EN-A, EN-B and EN-C)
General schedule
09:00 - 17:00 - Official training day, Registration and equipment inspection
18:30 - 18:30 - Mandatory Safety Briefing
Thursday, January 25, - wednesday 31, 2018
Contest flying days
20:30 - Opening ceremony
Wednesday, january 31 , 2018
17:00 - Prize-giving and closing ceremony
Daily schedule
08:30 - Transport to take-off
10:00 - Meet Director / Task and Safety Committee meetings
10:15 - Pilots' briefing / Previous task official results / Task definition
10:30 - Take-off window opens
16:30 - Scoring office opens
20:00 - Provisional results
Accommodation and Activities
Pueden ir haciendo sus reservas,
Hotel Junior : +57 311 3909574
Hotel zulayma :+57 320 6916491
How to get here
Para llegar a el departamento de Risaralda se puede a por:
Train car: https://goo.gl/maps/6UyAz
Car: Desde Cali y a 3 h 48 min y 235 km : https://goo.gl/maps/qA1Yh
Apia, Risaralda
Apia Risaralda Colombia
Plane
The nearest airport is Pereira - Matecana International Airport. Avianca company makes flights from Bogota to Pereira several times a day.
Car
Apia is located in 55 km to the north from Pereira. It takes 1 and half hour to get there by car via 25 highway.
It takes about 4 hours to get there for Cali - 235 km.
Apia, esta Ubicado a 65 km de Pereira
car: https://goo.gl/maps/6UyAz
Car: Desde Cali y a 3 h 48 min y 235 km : https://goo.gl/maps/qA1Yh
Downloads
Waypoint files
Organizers
copavientos@hotmail.com
+573147144333
Contacts
-
Meet Director
- Alejandro Bermudez
- +573147144333
- copavientos@hotmail.com
Socials
Category | Tagline | Participant | Phone | Description | Price |
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Open Valle del Risaralda
2da Valida campeonato Colombiano 2018
APIA RISARALDA
SERIAL
- Cristian Eduardo Barrios (15)
- Andres Agredo Perez (1)
- Alejandro Bermudez (613)
OPEN
- Oscar Yesid Alvarez Cáceres (1234)
- Cristian Andres Agudelo Escobar (724)
- Guillermo Alejandro Salazar Ramirez (356)
Tasks and results
Task 1
25 Jan, 2018
50.6 km — Race to goal
Task 2
26 Jan, 2018
62.0 km — Race to goal