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The 2nd FAI Paragliding Pan-American Championship will be held at Loma Bola, Sierra de San Javier, Tucuman, Argentina 1 to November 10, 2014. The Argentine spring will be delivering a beautiful thermals producing landscape that only a maximum of 150 ranked pilots will enjoy.

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Loma Bola is a mountain sports center, focused primarily on paragliders. Over 20 years of experience, we are pioneers in this activity, that it allows us to invite the public to a unique experience, enjoy guided flights and outdoor activities.

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  • 150 Pilots max allowed
  • 12 Countries presented
  • ✅ All certified wings allowed
  • 🏆 FAI Status = CAT 1 🏅
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Event info

The 2nd FAI Paragliding Pan-American Championship will be held at Loma Bola, Sierra de San Javier, Tucuman, Argentina 1 to November 10, 2014. The Argentine spring will be delivering a beautiful thermals producing landscape that only a maximum of 150 ranked pilots will enjoy.

Flying site

Loma Bola is a mountain sports center, focused primarily on paragliders. Over 20 years of experience, we are pioneers in this activity, that it allows us to invite the public to a unique experience, enjoy guided flights and outdoor activities.
Loma Bola is considered an ideal launch because of its location and excellent climatic conditions that allow flying all year with great confidence. Many flight schools operate there and it also hosts a lot of national and international events.
Loma Bola is a Nature Reserve Adventures in paragliding which ranks first as activities for their benefits of location, accessibility and flight conditions throughout the year made the site one of the best centers in the world flight.
We flew every day that the weather permits, our takeoff that features great amenities such as bar, parking, bathrooms, Internet access, etc. The local club ¨Los Caranchos¨ develop all the activities there. Located on San Javier Hills 4 km away from The Christ over the road to Villa Nougues a touristic center.

The exclusion area International Airport is about 10 km east of the launch, on the plain. This is not a requirement for achieving good work north and south as it flies over the mountains normally and in the case of raised sleeves south, the pilot will experience different landscapes, from the Yungas forest on the mountain, through citrus and strawberry plantations to large tracts of sugar cane. The whole area in which the work has raised many safe and very near access routes or locations that make an easy target rescue landings.

Loma Bola Take off - 1350 m ASL (-26.82263, -65.36873) 26º49’21.48’’ S – 65º22’07.41’’ W
The takeoff in Loma Bola has enough space for 5 - 6 pilots take off simultaneously. The entire surface has a very comfortable lawn sloping to cancel a takeoff at the last minute without consequences. It has a height of 800 mts and spring ceilings of about 1200 m above takeoff are achieved. Prevailing winds 5 to 18 km / h are from the South - Southeast and usually at this time of year fly between cumulus that guide the way.

Selection and entry fee

The limits
• The maximum number of pilots in the championship is 150.
• The maximum number of pilots that may be entered by a NAC is 40 total.
• The maximum number of pilots constituting a national team is 6 total and 5 of one
gender.

All applications made through the official web site must be confirmed by the NAC or their official representative starting from August 1st 2014.

Pilot qualification criteria for the Championship is: The reference ranking is July 2014 ranking published on August 1st 2014, therefore the rankings to be used will be August 2012 to July 2014 inclusive. A pilot has to have either: * Ranked in the top 500 Pan-Americans WPRS. For non-American guests, ranked in the top 1500 World WPRS or * scored a minimum of 20 WPRS points in any single FAI sanctioned event.
Pilot qualifications will be checked at 2th August 2014.

Select procedure

First allocation round will be made immediately after the pilot qualification check. First pass will allocate to each country a maximum of 20 pilot, the best ranked each country ranking.

Results from the first allocation round will be published on the official web site and it is then when the entry fee payment process starts. The deadline for payments will be August 15th2014

After the payment deadline the table will be updated. Any unpaid places will be re-allocated in the second round, which will be run until a total of 150 pilots are reached or no more applications are left. The deadline for the second payment will be August 30th2014.

After the payment deadline of the second round the team allocation table will be updated. Allocation for non-American pilots will be open, the selection will be make for WPRS. Any unpaid places will be re-allocated in the third round, which will be run until a total of 150 pilots are reached or no more applications are left. The deadline for the third payment will be September 30th2014.

After the payment deadline of the Third round the team allocation table will be updated. Any unpaid places will be re-allocated in the fourth round, which will be run until a total of 150 pilots are reached or no more applications are left. The deadline for the fourth payment will be October 15th2014.

The pilot who doesn´t pay on time, but is still interested in compete, keep the chance to be selected after the last allocated pilot in the last selection.-


Entry Fee
The Entry fee will be:
• 375 US$ per pilot.
• 150 US$ per team leader.
• Team leaders who are also pilots in the competition will pay only pilot entry fee.

The Entry fee includes:
• Transport to the take-off and retrieve on the main routes for all competition days,
• Emergency rescue and first aid medical service
• Upload of turn-point’s GPS coordinates
• GPS track-log download,
• Competitor and glider identification
• Color map
• ID card & safety/contact information,
• Lunch package, water,
• competition’s souvenirs,
• Free access to all championship events and parties,
• Free internet (Wi-Fi) access at the HQ and Scoring Point,
• Live tracking service

Prize fund and scoring categories

1, 2, 3 ranked in Overall
1, 2, 3 ranked in Women
1, 2, 3 ranked in Nations

General schedule

Saturday, 1 November, 2014
Official Registration and training day:
09:00 - 17:00 Official Registration and equipment inspection:
09:00 - 17:00 Training
18:30 - 19:30 Mandatory Safety Briefing: Saturday,
19:30 - 20:30 Team Leader Briefing: Saturday
starts 21:00 Opening ceremony:
Sunday, 2 Nobember - Monday, 10 November, 2014
Contest flying days
Monday 10 November, 2014
Prize-giving and Closing ceremony

Daily schedule

08:00 - Headquarters open
08:30 - Deadline for protests of the previous day
09:00 - Team leader briefing
09:30 - Transportation to Take off
11:00 - Meet Director / Task and Safety Committee meetings
11:15 - Pilots' briefing / Previous task official results / Task definition
12:30 - Take-off window opens
16:30 - Scoring office opens
18:30 - Safe landing report deadline
21:30 - Scoring office closes
22:00 - Provisional results
23:00 - Complaints resolution published
The daily schedule is subject to change. Any changes to the schedule will be announced by
the Meet Director at the Daily Team Leader Briefing or Pilot Briefing.

Accommodation and Activities

How to get here

There will be carried out registration, receipt of tracks and other activities.
The hotel is located at Calle Tucumán Miguel Lillo 365, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán.
http://www.hgitucuman.com.ar/
The organization will arrange the transfer from HQ to take off in Loma Bola and from the base of the hill to the HQ each day of competition.

San Miguel de Tucumán is located in 1300 km NE from Buenos Aires.

Argentina , 0000 , San Miguel de Tucumán , Tucumán , Calle Tucumán Miguel Lillo 365
Tucuman Argentina

Plane

To get to San Miguel de Tucuman from Ezeiza International Airport you can take a taxi or a bus to the city of Buenos Aires and then go to the Retiro bus terminal or take a flight at the Jorge Newbery airport to San Miguel de Tucuman.
Ezeiza International Airport "Ministro Pistarini"
Lt. Highway. General Ricchieri Km 33.5 - (B1802EZE) Buenos Aires.
Phone: (54 11) 5480 2500

Jorge Newbery Airport
Av Rafael Obliged S / n, 1425 Buenos Aires
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
Phone: 011 5480-2500

Benjamin Matienzo International Airport
Gallo Delfin S / N, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán
Phone: 0381 426-5072

Bus

Bus Station of Tucumán
Av JB Terán 250, San Miguel de Tucuman - Tucuman

Taxi

In San Miguel de Tucuman.
If you will arrive by land to the Bus Station of Tucumán where you can take a taxi to the HQ for about $120 AR (US $86).
If you took a plane, arrive at the Benjamin Matienzo International Airport. There you can take a taxi to the HQ with a value of about $250 Argentines (US $17).

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Waypoint files

Organizers

Federación Argentina de Vuelo Libre
Tel: ++ 54 9 1144177923
Contact: Eduardo Sanchez Granel
E-mail: efsg@fibertel.com.ar
http://www.favl.org.ar
Los Caranchos Delta Club
Address: Avda. Mate de Luna 3864 San Miguel de Tucumán, (4000) Argentina
Tel: +54 9 3814908454
Contact: Sergio Bujazha
E-mail: sbujazha@ciudad.com.ar info@lomabola.com.ar
http://www.lomabola.com
Sergio Bujazha
Meet Director
Mauricio Miguel
Safety Director & FAI coordination
Osvaldo Garcia
Rescue Coordinator
Cristian Poli
Transport and Retrieval
Mercedes Gijon
Social Events Coordinator
Matias Fortini
Scorer
Weather Forecast
Durval Henke (BRA)
Scorer
Javier Trejo
Take-Off Marshall
Maria Jose Araujo
Headquarters Coordinators
Armando Sosa
Goal Marshall
Francisco Rocha
Public and Press Relations
Sergio Herrera
Photograph&Video&Design
Dennis Pagen (USA)
FAI Steward
Kari Castle (USA)
FAI Trainee steward
Agust Gudmundsson (ISL)
FAI Jury President
Kurt Meyer (GUA)
FAI Jury member
Haroldo Castro Neves (BRA)
FAI Jury member

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Overall

  1. Bernardo Medina Sastre (116)
  2. Michel Guillemot (88)
  3. RICARDO ANDRES GOMEZ ARROYAVE (999)

Overall results

Women

  1. Andrea Jaramillo (37)
  2. Joanna Di Grigoli (122)
  3. Marina Olexina (700)

Nations

  1. COLOMBIA
  2. ARGENTINA
  3. USA

Nations results

Tasks and results

Task 1

05 Nov, 2014

70.6 km — Race to goal

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Task 2

06 Nov, 2014

62.8 km — Race to goal

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Task 3

08 Nov, 2014

79.4 km — Race to goal

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Task 4

09 Nov, 2014

65.2 km — Race to goal

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Task 5

10 Nov, 2014

44.2 km — Race to goal

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