A new special format competition that we have called "Water
touch".
Best points for touching the water the longest distance before landing
on land or on the landingraft. Bonus points for spinlandings.
Open for all pilots (registration
not open yet)
It's not a totally new consept,
because it's what most acro pilots try to do in competitions before
landing on the raft, and parachutist have competed in this for years.
But it's the first time we organize this kind of competition in Sweden.
The competition
consist of to main formats.
Longest swoop.
The title says it all. Make the longest line possible in the water
before landing dry on land or the raft.
Extra points for spinlanding.
Distance
will be measured from a line where the pilot touches the water
first to the point where the pilots touch the last time. Points: 1m = 1 point, quality of spinlanding 0-5 points.
Landing outside the designated landing gives a 50% reduction in
points.
Sweet glide.
Touch the water within the borders of the course but as far as
possible from the landing. Then glide to the designated landing on
the beach or the raft.
Extra points for spinlanding. Points: 2m = 1 point, quality of spinlanding 0-5 points.
Landing outside the designated landing gives 0 points.
The designated landing will mainly
be the raft for safety reasons, but can also be a restricted area on
the beach.
The competition will be open for all
pilots. Lower category pilots will be asked to perform a
spotlandingtest before beeing allowed in the competition.
Entry fee is only 150.-swedish kroner
to cover the transport to take-off.
Pilots allready registrered in the acro competitions will not be
charged any extra fee.
Registration for this competition is
open until the competition starts.
Pål is training for the longest swoop.
Here is Pål and Vera testing the 2008
swooping coarse.
More training. Here using the
speedbar to control the dive towards the water.
