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Barberton, South Africa 
26 Jun - 02 Jul 2016
ParagliderCross Country
Blog & News
Day 1, Task 1 Provisional Results - 2016-06-26 21:57
The Provisional Results are published for Day 1, Task 1- Anton Naude
- Stephan Kruger
- Leon Viljoen
This year events - 2016-06-24 19:03
This year:
Jumping Castle for kids during the registration.
Events for bad weather days:
- Visit Cradle Of Life, game drive.
- Do a 4x4 trip to Eureka City... Possibly Gold Panning.
Evening Events:
- Wednesday Innibos: bus available at R200 pp + R100 entry.
- Thursday SAHPA AGM – finger food / cocktail eve.
- Friday Birthday party at Jatira – Mexican food for who wants to dinner.
- Saturday Price Giving Night – The dinner + Musician / entertainer.
Besides announcing here, Allan Livingston will mention the events at the task briefing of the 1st day and at the probable ‘No flying day’.
Scoring Change - 2016-04-13 13:30
Scoring Change
Over the last few days, I've received a number of questions regarding the changes that will happen in the downloading. Complaints from "I don't have a cable" to "now it will be impersonal" etc.Let me assure you, this will be for the better. I would like to share my view on how this will change.
Past:
All pilots stand in a queue for hours, drink in the hand chatting to your friends about your flight. When you get to the front of the queue, you offer Brad a drink because you can see that he is stressed. Either because your instrument dates from the Camera era or because he knows that you might have landed short and will be swearing when he confirms it. Brad struggles for 5 minutes and decides to reboot his machine (probably just playing for time). After he rebooted and noticed that 3 more pilots joined the queue and 2 additional pilots left their instruments with a short "Brad, I'll be back just now". Brad still struggles and tells you in his politest way "Leave your instrument, I'll see what I can do". You leave the scoring are not knowing how far you got, knowing that you need to charge your instrument but first need to get a drink and dinner. After your drink, you forget your instrument and when you return from dinner, there is nobody left in the scoring area. You see your instrument. Now you wonder; "can I take my instrument, or must it still be scored?" You are worried that it will get stolen (we live in SA) and you know you still need to charge it. Your lift back to the campsite shouts that you need to hurry. You decide to leave your instrument. The following morning you get back to scoring and need to get your instrument charged before the vehicles leave for take-off.
All pilots stand in a queue for hours, drink in the hand chatting to your friends about your flight. When you get to the front of the queue, you offer Brad a drink because you can see that he is stressed. Either because your instrument dates from the Camera era or because he knows that you might have landed short and will be swearing when he confirms it. Brad struggles for 5 minutes and decides to reboot his machine (probably just playing for time). After he rebooted and noticed that 3 more pilots joined the queue and 2 additional pilots left their instruments with a short "Brad, I'll be back just now". Brad still struggles and tells you in his politest way "Leave your instrument, I'll see what I can do". You leave the scoring are not knowing how far you got, knowing that you need to charge your instrument but first need to get a drink and dinner. After your drink, you forget your instrument and when you return from dinner, there is nobody left in the scoring area. You see your instrument. Now you wonder; "can I take my instrument, or must it still be scored?" You are worried that it will get stolen (we live in SA) and you know you still need to charge it. Your lift back to the campsite shouts that you need to hurry. You decide to leave your instrument. The following morning you get back to scoring and need to get your instrument charged before the vehicles leave for take-off.
Future/New Scoring:
You land (in goal preferably), your friends great you with a beer. You go into the Meet Centre and notice that your Live Tracklog is submitted but only the first part until you fumbled your phone when trying to take a selfie. Or that you don't have a Live Tracklog. Your friends are huddled around a computer comparing their flights. You bring a couple of drinks along and ask them to assist you in uploading your tracklog. The new guy that just started flying knows computers (and instruments) better than everyone else and quickly downloads your tracklog for you. You promise to buy him a beer after it is uploaded (not before because you need to keep him sober). He uploads your tracklog and your friends on the table next to you congratulates you since they could see your score updated. You all decide to go for dinner and continue the flying stories while enjoying a pizza.