The competition will continue a weekend after in Indonesia. All informations regarding: - A Programme, - Rules, - Prizes and fees, - Transportation and accommodation, - Registration to the competition, - A trip to Mt. Kinabalu, - A Registration form
The first series of PGAWC in 2012 will be held in Indonesia. Therefore, we would like to give some short information regarding this competition, as below:
Competition Event
PGAWC Indonesia 2012, will be like this: Organizer : DKI Jakarta Member : Gendon (Chief), Wahyu, Tony Yuda, Rivan, Elzar, dan Wim Salim Date : March 9-11, 2012 (Official Practice Day: March 9, 2012) Location : Gunung Mas, Puncak, West Java Take Off : 1300 ASL Landing : 1000 ASL Distance : 1,2 km Accomodation : Wisma Arga Mulya (hostel near from Landing Area) Registration : EUR 150, including: Registration • Accomodation* • Meals (breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)* • Local Transportation (Take Off - Landing)* *during competition days
This year it took us much more time to prepare a competition schedule for PGAWC season 2012 and this is also the reason for publishing it a little bit latter. Sorry.
What we can say is, we are glad that a higher number of competition organizers has applied and for this year we tried even harder to join two competitions: one weekend after another in order to make it easier for pilots, regarding travel planning.
Here is a competition schedule: 09-11.March Indonesia 15-19.March Malaysia 05.-06.May Monte Negro 08.-13.May Albania 01.-02.September China 28.-30.September Germany And superfinals 06.-07.October Austria
Some small changes still can happen but in next couple of weeks we will prepare more detaied information about organizers, competition sites, accommodation & transportation informations and of course, a possibility to register for a competition.
Some weeks ago 2011 season has ended and we already done some preparation work for a next 2012 season. One of the earliest steps is also a preparation of competition schedule and for a new season.
Some of you are already familiar with everything written bellow but please, when you have some questions; do not hesitate to write to an e-mail address bellow.
Looking forward to receive your offers and thank you very much in advance. PGAWC Team
Entering criteria for organizers: - potencial competition organizers for PGAWC 2012 season are asked to send an offer – proposal, latest till 30th October on e-mail matjaz.feraric@guest.arnes.si , - an organizer, who applies for the first time, had to organize at least one FAI cat 2 competition with at least 20 competitors in the past. - A coordinator will comunicate among organizers and prapare a list of organizers and a competition schedule for 2012 season. Selection of organizers will be based on following factors: i. Allready Succesfully organized PGAWC or FAI 2 competition, ii. First time organizer of PGAWC, iii. Applied allready for last year`s season or earlier, iv. Spreading and promotions of discipline also to new locations or countries, v. To show the seriousness of an offer by paying on PGAWC account an amount of 1000 EUR (for organizers, Technical delegate, overal season prizes, …) , vi. To explain possibillities regarding accommodations, transport, what else can offer to competitors, how an organizer will take care about a general promotion of competition, promotion of discipline and media coverage of the whole event. Organizer
obligations: - After a confirmation of selection from PGAWC, organizer of WC competition has to register a competition to FAI till 15th of December that this competitions appear on FAI comp. calendar at the very beginning of next year. - Competition have to follow FAI rules, - One practice day and at least two competition days have to be forseen for a competition, - pilot`s registration have to be proceed via internet on www.pgawc.org, - only pilots with valid FAI sporting licence can attend PGAWC competition, - organizer have to ensure price money in a sum of 1.000 Eur and trophies for individuals, female pilots and teams - pilot entry fee for one competition is 50 EUR, - organizer provides lunch and competition transportation for pilots and accommodation for technical delegate and one foreigner competition judge, - organizer have to provide competition results and photo material to technical delegate for internet site.
With a competition on a last sunny weekend, we succesfuly completed another PGAWC season. It started in February in Trakai –Lithuania, continued in March with Neustift in Stubai Walley – Austria and weekend later in Vrsac- Serbia. Followed by two Asian competitions: in June at Puncak –Indonesia and weekend later at Ranau –Malaysia and completed with finals in Wasserkuppe –Germany.
Speaking about 2011 season in numbers: we hosted 236 pilots, from 76 different countries, competing in 58 teams and completed 26 competition rounds. Record breaking number of pilots at the competition was 104 pilots in Serbia. We are happy to write that on a total ranking, 29 female pilots can be found. Beside this, a lot of pad scores and big progress in team competitions, as a sign of a higher number of skilled pilots, would also be a good news of this season.
Despite the hard times in general, accuracy landing population is growing persistently: we have new pilots from old and new accuracy countries, new competition host countries (not only of World Cup but also in accuracy FAI2 competitions in general), bigger interest of media and wider interests from sponsors, as well. Local TV and press did a good coverage of events and we have seen some articles in magazines like Thermik, Japanesse Paraworld, English Skywings, … and we attracted much more attention on World paragliding forum, and of course pgawc web page, not to mentione Youtube or Vimeo.
From a competition side, Europe is still in the lead but Asia is comming closer, very fast. When we check a list of FAI supported competitions in Asia: a lot of National Championships, Asian and Beach Championship and of course, World Cup competitions.
Competition organizers did a great job trying to make them interesting also beside competition itself. A lot of different shows, cultural events, barbeque parties, movie presentations, fun competitions, a lot of support regarding accommodation&transportation, a lot of practical prizes for pilots; by their possibilities, of course. All these things made competitions week very attractive to increasing number of pilots.
Very important part in all this goes to PGAWC sponsors: Airwave, Skywalk and Kimfly. With their contributions, we managed to cover a big part of general costs and also prizes for a final ceremony. In return, we tried hard to promote their presence in our sport, through the whole season on many different ways.
A promotion of paragliding, of accuracy landing, a promotion of competition sites and competition organizers and of course promotion of our sponsors, will also be a main goal for a 2012 competition season. Beside this, we will work even harder on promotion in magazines and web pages and on offering a full support to new competition organizers.
An important goal for 2012 season is to organize again the most of competitions outside high summer season. In that case we will attract more pilots who will normaly go to holidays or XC flying. Beside this, we will do our best in order to attract even more equipment manufacturers and make this discipline even more interesting for competitors, spectators, competition organizers and of course: sponsors and here we are very open to your suggestions, as well. With a high quality competition level and without any dangerous situations or injuries during competitions, it will not be so hard to achieve.
Overall current ranking 
Speaking about 2011 season in numbers: we hosted 236 pilots, from 76 different countries, competing in 58 teams and completed 26 competition rounds. Record breaking number of pilots at the competition was 104 pilots in Serbia. We are happy to write that on a total ranking, 29 female pilots can be found. Beside this, a lot of pad scores and big progress in team competitions, as a sign of a higher number of skilled pilots, would also be a good news of this season. 
