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 - running alongside existing contests, and 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.

Following early trials during 2008 CIVL is launching the first full WXC season trial starting on 1 October 2008, and running to 30 September 2009.
2008/2009 will be the first full season to trial the operation of the CIVL World XC contest. 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. BUT for this first trial season, some contests may not connect until later. So FOR THIS SEASON ONLY, when contests are first connected to the WXC network, all flights from the start of the season (1 October 2008) will be accepted.

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 fot more information, please Contact Agust Gudmundsson