1st World Cup in Wingsuit Performance Flying - Day 2 - 26th May 2015

The first-ever all female Jury: Lidia Kosk, Karla Cole, Susan Dixon (President) "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil"  A rather appropriate phrase for any Jury

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Day 2: Tuesday 26th May 2015: 18.30 hrs:

We have the minimum required to declare a Competition.  One round has been completed with all three tasks.  The weather is now beautiful - wall to wall blue skies and sunshine.  For this reason Mark Bayada (Meet Director) asked for the Jury to give permission to continue jumping until sunset (21.05 hrs), rather than finishing at 20.00 hrs as stated in the daily programme.  The Jury's decision was in favour and so another complete task will be finished tonight - the start of Round 2.  It really is hard to remember what the conditions were like at 7.00 a.m. todsy when we first arrived at the airfield, cold with complete cloud cover.

Kate Charters is conducting a Wingsuit Flying Judge Training Course during this week and her trainees are assisting the official judging staff with some of their more mundane duties, the concept of learning by doing, supplemented by classroom time. Her 8 students come from Australia (2), Canada (1), Great Britain (1), Hungary (2), Qatar (1) and USA (1).

Day 2: Tuesday 26th May 2015: 11.10 hrs:

The first 20 minute call for the opening round of the 1st FAI World Cup in Wingsuit Performance Flying has hit the tannoy!  By 16.15 we had completed the second task and within 30 minutes the first load was preparing to start the final task of the round, Speed.  The upper winds are quite strong and the competitors are expecting/hoping for some good scores. 

Two jumpers received a 0 score for their distance flight, due to their failure to follow rule 5.1.4 and 5.1.5 by turning 180 degrees on exit.  Fortunately neither caused a safety issue.  So far we have had three out landings, which is quite good for Wingsuiters!

Day 2: Tuesday 26th May 2015: 07.20hrs:

The first day of competitive jumping was scheduled for a 07.00 hrs start, but the low cloud base put paid to that, so everyone is on a stand to, probably for an hour or so.

During yesterday's competitors' briefing it was determined that the tasks would be set at Time, Distance and Speed, where possible, with 9 competitors per aircraft and with 3 out per pass. There was a lot of discussion from the floor about the wearing of additional electronic devices - headphones etc - and the competitors were reminded that such devices should not be worn in case of interference affecting the FlySight, as any interference from a third-party device would void the competitors score.

The draw for the jumpers allocation of aircraft was undertaken at the end of the meeting, followed by the tagging of each jumper's wingsuit by Kate Charters and Randy Connell. This 'tagging' is to ensure that only that wingsuit is worn throughout the entire competition. Similarly the competitors brought their helmets to the Judges' room where the designated FlySight devices were affixed to each helmet by Klaus Rheinwald and his team and where they would remain on charge and under the supervision of the Judges until they were called to the flight line.

Competitors' Briefing	Affixing the FlySights to helmets	Wingsuit Tagging

To allow adequate time for retrieving helmets and getting into their wingsuits, the jumpers are being given 20 minute and 10 minute calls in addition to the required 15/5 minute calls per IPC Competition Rules.