Safe Pilot v2017.1

The Queensland Paragliding Championships are back for 2025. The Queensland championships are founded in a tradition enjoyed by both new and experienced cross country pilots. Every year we tweak the format, adapting to the sites we have access to, and the demand for skills development within our flying community.

The weather patterns over very recent years have delivered less than optimal conditions. It seems the highly variable, less predictable, and unstable conditions are here to stay, so this season we propose to adapt the format, and be more flexible on dates to increase our chance of tasking in favourable conditions.

The 2025 season will:

• run tasks over 5 weekends ( 10 days ), throughtout the season from 1 March 2025, to 30 November.
• aim to run one weekend each month or so, based on weather forecasts on the preceeding Wednesday evening.
• aim to call some weekends at our neighbouring Club sites, eg Toowoomba and Killarney
• present the Winner at the Club Christmas event.
• start the season with an introductory talk aimed at PG3/PG4/PG5 looking to develop XC skills and grow community connections within the club. This will be held on a non tasking weekend, with a BBQ breakfast at the club house, and an early morning flyin. We will make sure your instruments have the correct files loaded, practice loading a task, and cover some background on the how, what and why basics on setting a good XC task.

I look forward to your participation again this year. Note:- Please download the 2025 waypoint file

Download ZIP FILE Here

Format

The TASK COMMITTEE may choose from a variety of TASK TYPES depending on the conditions. These may include:
• Traditional XC task/Speed Run Tasks
• Cross country with handicap - based on glider span and cyclider size
• Thermaling tasks. At this task we will stay local and measure how many meters we can climb in for example 1 hour. To avoid any dangerous manoeuvres to lose height, the clock will only run when we are climbing. For example if the cloud base for the day is 1300meters the task could be set from 600 to 1200 meters. The clock will then start as you climb through the 600 meters from below and stop as you climb through the 1200 meters. When you have 1 hour of accumulated climbs you are in goal and the most meters wins the day , the winner get the average top score from the comp at that point and everyone else proportionally less.
• Towing XC distance task. At this task we will organise a towing day or weekend where we fly as far as we can for a set time in a set direction starting from the time of the tow. A registration fee may apply on these days.
• Ground handling task. At this task we will kite our glider over a 50-100meter task with turn points. It will be scored in a similar way to normal task but with no handicap time added. The top score for the day will be the average of the top score in the comp at that point. 70% off the score will go towards distance; the fastest time will get 30% as speed points and the slowest time will 10% as speed points.
Not all TASK types may be used throughout the season, and will be chosen by consensus of our competition organisation and task committee teams. We hope that with a variety of task types, we may get more rounds in, broaden the skill development programme particularly over the winter months.

Retrieves

Unless we have some volunteer drivers, we will need to manage amongst ourselves. No one will be left out without a retrieve at the end of the day. We ask that if you get back to your car – see who else might be on the ground and need a pickup.

Communication

> WhatsApp Groups.....

Canungra Paragliding: All general competition info leading upto and in the day.

Canungra Retrieve Group: One of the great features of Whatsapp is that if you see a pilot needing a pickup, and your heading in that direction, its so easy to just click on the link and call that pilot directly, even if you don’t have their contact details in your phone.