WXC - CIVL World XC online contest

WXC - a World Wide HG and PG Cross Country online contest

The basic philosophy of WXC is to interconnect all online XC contests around the world to create a World XC online contest. It runs alongside existing contests, allowing pilots to compare their flights across regions and compete internationally. Essentially, the WXC is a network of online contests. It is completely free of charge to pilots and requires no additional effort on their part. Existing online contests will continue to operate in the normal way, according to their local rules.
The idea behind the WXC is to encourage and motivate pilots to fly more often, fly further and to undertake more challenging tasks, such as out and returns and triangles. Online contests have been around in the hang gliding and paragliding community for decades. Initially, many started out as manually operated XC leagues in regions or countries. Technology changes like the world wide web and the GPS have transformed these XC leagues, so now they are hosted on the Internet, and can be administered by the pilots themselves when claiming flights.

Today there are many online XC contests established around the world. And there are many countries, regions and clubs looking to launch their own online competitions. Typically, a pilot participating in an online contest, submits his flights to his preferred or local contest. If this online contest is a registered and networked contest, his flight will automatically be submitted to the WXC for scoring.

The scoring of online contests around the world varies, so WXC will re-score the flight according to WXC rules (see:http://wxc.fai.org), to allow all flights to be compared fairly. Pilots cannot submit flights directly to the WXC, they can only be submitted through an existing online contest which is registered and networked to the WXC. All flights submitted to online contests networked to WXC are automatically submitted to the WXC server for scoring in the WXC. All Online contest servers are welcome to join the WXC network. Already several contests have signed up to the WXC and more will follow. Connected contests can be seen in the left hand column of the WXC web pages. Normally, flights must be submitted to the WXC within 14 days of the actual flight, and older flights are not accepted.

Following early trials during 2008 CIVL launched the first full WXC season trial on 1 October 2008, which ran to 30 September 2009. This was the first full season to trial the operation of the CIVL World XC contest. The 2009/2010 season is now underway.

Pilots must have a valid CIVL_ID. This is allocated automatically to all pilots who have participated in any FAI sanctioned competition since 01.01.2001. Pilots should first check if they are registered (and update their info and upload photos) at http://civlrankings.fai.org Click the 'Pilots' link.
Pilots with no CIVL ID, can register here.
The WXC web is at: http://wxc.fai.org

Online contest organisers and others looking for more information, please Contact Agust Gudmundsson