Competition Rules and Information The 2008 Ozone Chabre Open will be held from Friday June 6th to 13th.

Friday will be registration day with a practice task on Saturday.

The last task will be set on Friday 13th June

Registration will open for the 2008 event on 15th February 2008. If the event is oversubscribed then a selection criteria will be applied in late February.

Venue The competition will be based at Laragne Campsite and will utilise Laragne-Chabre, Sederon and Aspres take offs.

RulesThe 2007 rules are below, 2008 rules, information and entry fees will be updated before registration for that event.

Organisation The event will be organised by the local club - Chabre Vol Libre, with further support from Les Loups Volants, Sederon and Allez-up Holidays.

Sponsorship The main sponsor of the event will be OZONE

Format The event will be run, as far as possible, according to FAI Category 2 rules set out in Section 7B for paragliding Cross country competitions. The event is restricted to certified gliders .

There will be an overall winner of the competition, there will also be an overall winner based on handicap, There will be class prizes and trophies based on the rating of the wing (DHV,CEN or Afnor). There will be a separate class for those who have minimal experience.

Eligibility & Equipment - Pilots; i) Maximum 120 pilots.
ii) Competing pilots must hold the French Brevet Pilote confirmé or equivalent.
iii) Competing pilots must have full liability, medical and repatriation insurance.
iv) Competing Pilots must satisfy themselves that they are adequately experienced to compete and fly in the prevailing conditions at Laragne in June.
v) Pilots must carry 2m radio utilisable in the bands between 140 and 145 MHz
vi) Pilots must carry a recently repacked reserve parachute
vii) Scoring will be by approved GPS, check list on Compe GPS website for details of approved type, see link.

Selection In the event of the event being over subscribed a priority selection criteria for pilots may be introduced
A number of places will be reserved by the organisation.
Team entries will be prioritised (see teams below).

Approved GPS list Scoring will be using CompeGPS check out their website under /support/hardware for details of supported GPS'. We have cables for the common models but bring your own cable if you've got one and label it as yours. Pilots are responsible for ensuring they have a cable available to download their GPS.

Eligibility - Gliders i) Paragliders must be Certified - this is a class competition and no open class gliders will be accepted. Gliders should have appropriate DHV/Afnor/CEN stickers, gliders not bearing stickers will be scrutinised as will all prize winning gliders.
ii) Only paragliders Certified to DHV standards 1, 1-2, 2 or 2-3 or Afnor Standard or Performance or CEN equivalents are acceptable.

Eligibility - teams i) Teams made up of 4 pilots, scores for best 3 in each task to count
ii) Teams will contain a maximum of one DHV 2/3 glider and at least one DHV 1 or 1/2 glider
ii) A number of places will be reserved for club or school teams.

Format - competition a) The competition is proposed as a fun paragliding XC event. It may also include;
i) An accuracy element in goal field.
ii) Other competition tasks other than XC flying

Format - tasks i) Tasks will only be set in appropriate conditions
ii) Tasks will be preceded by a weather and site briefing and information from meet director and where possible top pilots on their planned route for the task
iii) Tasks will, where possible, be set to maximise pilots in goal - (>50%)
iv) Tasks will generally be set within the confines of the Durance, Buech, Meouge and Jabron valleys - centre of map 60 of IGN Top 100 maps - Cavaillon / Digne Les Bains. A basic turnpoint map of this area will be provided.

Retrieves There will be a full retrieve service along the course of the task and transport to take off each day from the briefings. There will also be transport to events where these are held away from organisation headquarters or Laragne.

Entry Fee - non transferable a) Provisionally subject to grant aid availability;
(i) 220 Euro - pre registered competitors, OZONE may sponsor pilots of Ozone wings.
(ii) 60 Euro - non-competitors - events entry
(iii) 250 Euro - non pre-registered competitors
b) Entry fee refund of 150 Euro up to 1st May, zero thereafter, for cancellations.
c) Accepted entries are non transferable.

Events There will be several events held during the week including;
i) Entertainment - 2/3 evenings with bands or discos
ii) A final night prize giving with meal.
iii) Talks by paragliding celebs on safety, comp flying and mountain flying
iv) Debriefs after each tasks by leading pilots, tracklog displays.
v) One or more evening meals
vi) Ozone Demo Wings will be available for test flying.

Prizes a)The overall and handicap winners will be awarded the prize of a sailplane flight with multiple world record holder Klaus Ohlman - see glider flight on left for details of one of the 2005 winner's flight.
b) Prizes awarded for first second and third in class subject to numbers of participants.
c) Prizes for teams on the basis of accumulated points of the top 3 per task in each team.

Prize Draw An Ozone wing (solo) will be raffled on the final night with all pilots having their name entered in the draw for this fantastic prize.
The winning pilot must be present to collect their prize !!!!!

Pre-registration Will be open from 15th February on the competition website

Payment/AcceptanceFebruary 28th 2008.

2006 waypoints download (compegps wpt file)