I'd like to propose a Cross Country league is an informal series of cross country competitions running from around March through to about October held at flying sites within driving distance of Central Arizona. The league is set to help pilots of all abilities in improving their flying skills by flying set courses with other pilots. These are essentially a fly in with a mission.
The league is open to hang-glider and paraglider pilots who are happy thermalling with other pilots and who are able to land safely not-necessarily in the designated landing zone.

Below is a proposed set of Rules

1) The league will run every month from March through to October
2) Two competitions to be held every race weekend- weather permitting. In the unlikely event that the weather forecast looks bad for the whole weekend the competition will be postponed to the next available weekend. If that weekend is also cancelled, then the tasks for that month will be cancelled.
3) The same scoring formula will be used throughout the season which will be either PWC or GAP2002. Each task gives a maximum of 1000 points to the winner provided both nominal time and distance have been exceeded.
4) Cumulative scoring. To win the league, it is not necessary to fly every task. since the points each pilot has accum,ulated win half of the tasks flown will be used. If a pilot has flown more than half of the tasks, then the best points will be used.
5) If there are an odd number of valid tasks, then the scores are taken from one more than the half tasks flown.
5) There are 3 categories to the competition based on the safety rating of the gliders.
DHV /LTF rating EN rating AFNOR
Category 1 2-3 and competition D competition
Category 2 2 C performance
Category 3 1 and 1-2 A and B standard
6) Should a pilot change their glider to a different rating glider then the catergory glider that the pilot is entered into is based on the highest rating of a the glider flown in the league during the season.
7) At the start of each day there will be a weather briefing before the task is set.
The cost to compete in each task is TBD ($10) which is refundable should the task be cancelled.
9) Setup waypoints at a website.
10) All pilots must have completed the pilot registration and waiver before they compete.
11) All pilots must fly with a serviceable 2m radio, a serviceable reserve parachute and a GPS device that is able to record their tracklog.
12) RULES OF THE AIR. All pilots must obey the rules of the air: first pilot in the thermal sets the turn direction, pilots entering the thermal must approach from the outside, normal ridge rules. Failure to observe standard rules (including no cloud flying) will result in the pilot scoring nil for the task and not being allowed to compete in any more events.
13) If at the end of the league two pilots have the same score, the winner will be the one who has scored higher in individual races.
14) A task is invalid if no pilot makes the first waypoint or the minimum distance whichever is the shorter.
15) Re-launches are only allowed if the pilot fails to make the first waypoint.


Is anyone interested in something like this?
Does anyone have any experience with tracklogs and scoring software?

What flying sites would work for cross-country flying?

I'd like to hear your comments to something like this.

Andy