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Event info
Shumen-XC is pleased to invite you to the annual edition of its Open Distance Cross Country competition. It will be held from 06 till 11 August.
As we like the endless flatlands surrounding the plateau of Shumen, we decided not to put limits in our competition tasks! Shumen XC Open is not the traditional competition with pre-defined route.
Flying site
Shumen plateau is situated in the northeast part of the Bulgaria and is known as the most thermic country part. The place used to be a National Gliders education center in the years of communism. The plateau with it`s 3 take offs for wind directions from North through East to South, surrounded with endless flatlands is a really good point to start your long open distance flight or in the days with less wind your big triangle.
Expand page for more details- left before start of event
Contacts
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General questions
- Stanislav Velchev
- +359895522715
- svelchev@gmail.com
Event info
Shumen-XC is pleased to invite you to the annual edition of its Open Distance Cross Country competition. It will be held from 06 till 11 August.
As we like the endless flatlands surrounding the plateau of Shumen, we decided not to put limits in our competition tasks! Shumen XC Open is not the traditional competition with pre-defined route. A suitable vector (direction) is chosen each day according to the wind forecasts. Winner is the pilot who manages to fly furthest before the deadline. Race the wind, chase the clouds, and reach the furthest horizon!
Video from last year’s comp.
Selection and entry fee
Registration start date August
Entry fee 30 Euro
Bank transfer:
Bank: ProCredit
Bank Bulgaria Name: StanislavVelchev
Bank account number: BG12PRCB92301029511327
[BGN] BIC Code: PRCBBGSF
PayPal: svelchev@gmail.com
Cash on registration
Entry fee includes
- T-Shirt
- Lunch Packet
- Transport from HQ to Takeoff
- Scoring
- Live tracking
Prize fund and scoring categories
1st, 2nd and 3rd ranked - Serial in the competition
1st, 2nd and 3rd ranked - Teams in the competition
General schedule
12:00– 18:00 Training flights
18:00 – 23:00 Registration
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
9:30 – 10:30 Mandatory Safety Briefing
11:00 – 11:30 Transport to the take-off
Wednesday, 7 August 2013 - Sunday, 11 August 2013
Contest flying days
Sunday, 11 August 2013
Prize giving and Closing ceremony
Daily schedule
10:00 - Deadline for the previous day protests
11:30 - Transportation to Take off
19:00 – Scoring office opens
22:00 – Provisional results
Accommodation and Activities
How to get here
HQ is located at Hotel Rai in Shumen.
Shumen, Ohrid 26A str.
Shumen Bulgaria
Plane
The nearest airports are in Sofia and Varna.
From Sofia Airport:
Taxi from Airport to Central Bus/Railway stations: ~7 Euro (max. 10 Euro)
- by train with Bulgarian Railways: ~400 km, ~13 Euro
- by bus from central bus station: ~400 km, ~18 Euro
From Varna Airport:
Taxi from Airport to Central Bus/Railway stations: ~7 Euro (max. 10 Euro)
- by train with Bulgarian Railways: ~100 km, ~6 Euro
- by bus from central bus station: ~100 km, ~6 Euro
Car
Shumen is located on the main road Sofia – Varna.
Downloads
Waypoint files
Organizers
Stanislav Velchev
Tel: +359895522715
Email: svelchev@gmail.com
Yavor Plashilski
Tel: +359895522709
http://shumen-xc.org
Retrieval coordinator
Scorer
Contacts
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General questions
- Stanislav Velchev
- +359895522715
- svelchev@gmail.com
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A record is broken!
Shumen competition was always unusual. But this time we may well call it outstanding. Shumen plateau offers perfect conditions for open distance flights. Still our pilots refused to fly within its geographical boundaries and ventured far beyond. It resulted in flights of some 100-150 km even up to 200. But we felt that this is not the limit. Our forecast predicted a suitable weather for very long fights, so we just waited for the day and tried to guess who will manage to tame the wind and thermals. And it happened! Though the winner was not at all unexpected. On the fourth day Niki Velev - who has already won three previous tasks made a new Bulgarian National record flight of 313 km, crossing the whole country from East to West - from Shumen (which is not far from the seaside) to Sofia region. The previous record 303 km was made in 2011 and belongs to Daniel Dimov. Well done Niki! We are very proud this record was set at Shumen XC Open 2013!