Hang Gliding Italian Open 2016

REGULATION

01. General
The Italian Hang Gliding  Championship is an international event  included in the FAI  category 2 calendar for classes I and V.
The organizer is AeC Lega Piloti in collaboration with VoloLiberoMonteCucco.
+39 3476178918. (info@VoloLiberoMonteCucco.it)

02. Place
Flying area: Sigillo  (PG).
Operations Center: Hostel of free flight located in Frazione Villa Scirca, 06028 Sigillo (Italy)
+39 0757816237


03. Period
The race will take place from August 7 to August 14  2016.


04. Validation and ranking
The competition is valid for awarding the Italian Champion 2016  title with a minimum of two tasks played and 1500 points awarded.

The following rankings will be drawn :
Hang Gliding  Class 1 OPEN
Hang Gliding  Class 1 - Italian Championship
Hang Gliding  Class 5 OPEN (with at least 4 participants)
Hang Gliding  Female Class 1 (with at least 3 participants)


05. Participants
The registration of 50% of Italian pilots will be  guaranteed. The maximum number of participants is 100 pilots.


06. Registration
The pre-registration will take tart on the web site:  http://www.flafly.net/legapilotidelta/

before 20:00 of Saturday, August 6, 2016. Registration must be confirmed at the Operations Center Sunday, August 7 morning before 12 am .


07. Registration fee and payment
The registration fee is fixed in € 130.00 and includes:
• 1 dinner offered by the organization.
• T-shirt.
• Bag of food for all days of competition.
• Aid for safety with ambulance on race days.

Only if not held any valid task it will be returned to each driver registered 50% of the registration fee.
The organization will not provide any shuttle service for retrieval. Each pilot will have to organize themselves.
The organization can only try to make pilots to  get in touch with some local shuttle drivers who could provide this service for a fee. The pilots who want to use this service must notify the organization at least 15 days before the start of the Championship.


08. Award
Prizes will be awarded:
1st place OPEN
2nd place OPEN
3rd place OPEN
1st place Italian Championship Class 1 and Class 5
2nd place Italian Championship Class 1 and Class 5
3rd place Championship Italian Class 1 and Class 5

Class 5 will be valid only with the participation of at least 4 participants.
To collect their prizes, the pilots  must be present at the awards ceremony that will be held at the end of the final dinner.
We do not accept proxies. Not collected prizes will remain the organization.


09. Complaints
Any complaints must be submitted by 9.00 am the day after the publication of the provisional ranking or within 30 minutes of the publication of the final general classification.


10. Operations Center and Regularization participation
The operations center will be set up at the hostel of the flight Fraction Villa Scirca, 06028 Sigillo PG.
https://www.google.it/maps?q=43.349044,12.724141&hl=it&ll=43.349072,12.724142&spn=0.012233,0.02959&sll=43.349161,12.724082&sspn=0.003074,0.007398&t=h&z=16
As required for national competitions and according to FAI / CIVL regulations the following requirement must be met :
• Pilot license
• FAI Card
• Payment of the registration fee
• RCT insurance (policy number and insurance company)
Note: All documents must be valid
• You MUST use approved helmet (EN 966).
• You MUST, for safety, have a VHF radio tuned to the frequencies set by the organization.
• Every pilot must use a device for live tracking set with a sampling rate of at least 2 seconds. Every pilot, upon registration confirmation must notify their LIVETRACK24 ( www.livetrack24 .com ) account to the organizers, if not already done previously via email.


11. GPS, Software and Scoring System
Thanks will be downloaded using GPSDump software while for the scoring system FS (fs.fai.org) will be used
The GPS must record the flight altitude, both GPS and barometric.
It is up to the pilot to provide a cable with your computer to fit the organization.
WGS84 datum will be used.


12. RESPONSIBILITY 'AND INSURANCE
AeC Lega Piloti  and VoloLiberoMonteCucco (and all other participants in the organization) assume no responsibility for damage to persons or property which may arise in the course of the competition. During registration the pilot will be ask to sign a responsibility declaration.


13. SCORING
The Italian AeCI regulation and the GAP 2014 scoring system  will be used. Livetracking devices will also be used ad track loggers.

14. References
The main reference is the official website of the competition: http://www.VoloLiberoMonteCucco.it
Regulation FAI (edition May 1, 2015) is available on the FAI-CIVL
www.fai.org and national sporting regulations at www. aeci.it