Paragliding

Competitions
The main annual competition organised by the CHGC is the Canungra Paragliding Cup, which will be held again from 1-8 October 2011.
QLD State Championship 2010
The QLD State Championship 2010 will be run over a number of weekends in different flying areas. Ashley McMillan organizes and scores the event. The relevant dates are as follows:
  • Round 1 11.-12.9.
  • Round 2 25.-26.9.
  • Round 3 9.-10.10.
  • Round 4 13.-14.11.
  • Round 5 27.-28.11.
Further infos can be found on the state championship website.

Paragliding Weekend Series
This competition runs on most Saturdays and Sundays and is designed to encourage XC flying. If you want to get involved you just need to be on the hill on a Sunday, check in with the person organising the task for the day and submit your tracklog afterwards.

Please visit the Weekend Series Results page for further details.

Additionally there is now also the QLD OLC Comp for ALL PG clubs and pilots of Queensland.

Past Series Results
Winter 2007 (15 April 2007 to 23 September 2007)
Summer 2006-07 (15 October 2006 to 25 March 2007)
Winter 2006 (7 May to 17 September 2006)
Summer 2005-06 (6 November 2005 to 30 April 2006)
QLD State Championship 2007
Like 2006, the QLD State Championship 2007 was run over a number of weekends in different flying areas. The QLD championship has just received a B grade sanction from the HGFA, and the relevant dates are as follows:
  • Conondale Club 1.9.-2.9.
  • Fly Killarney 22.9.-23.9.
  • Toowomba (Wicked Wings Club) 13.10.-14.10.
  • Canungra 24.11.-25.11.
Presentation night will be at Canungra on the last weekend. Further details can be found on Matt Rosser's page.

Geoff Sexton wins, Brandon O'Donnell comes second and Gavin Zahner third.

QLD State Championship 2006
Round 1 was very wet and not overly well attended to, with the results being a bit marginal. Round 2 saw two tasks in Canungra, with more reasonable results: Saturday and Sunday. Round 3 in Kilcoy also had two taskable days, with the following results: Saturday and Sunday. Round 4 in Toowoomba provided a challenging but flyable closing to the event, with these results.

Here are the final Overall Results: First Geoff Sexton, Second Ian McFarlane, Third Ivan Annissimov.
Best Female: Melissa Darke
Best DHV1/2: Lachlan Fletcher in fifth place.

Current Canungra Site Records
  • Mt. Tamborine: Shane Hill 114km (2004)
  • Beechmont: Enda Murphy 325km (11.2007)
  • Flying Fox: Gavin Zahner 92km (29.10.2008)
  • Hinchcliffe's: Shane Hill 131km (14.1.2009)
  • Scotsman's: Ian McFarlane 72km
  • 4 Mile Lane: Brandon O'Donnell 46km
  • First crossing of Cunninghams Gap W-E: Phil Hystek (1995)
  • First crossing of Cunninghams Gap E-W: Andrew Horchner (2002)
  • Tandem Record: Ian McFarlane 43.5km (31.7.2011)
  • "Bolero" Record: Ian McFarlane 55km
Here are the flight tracks of some of these record flights:
  • Ian McFarlane + Passenger (31.7.2011) 43.5km from Beechmont on a Topo Map
  • Gavin Zahner (29.10.2008) 92km from Flying Fox on a Topo map (tracklog here)
  • Shane Hill (20.10.2007) 261km from Beechmont on a Road map and on a Topo map
  • Shane Hill (14.1.2009) 131km from Hinchcliffe: Track Log
  • Shane Hill (2004) 114km from Tambo on a Road map and on a Topo map
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