Mark Tulloch from Vancover wins the Hang Gliding Race and Claudio Mota from Victoria wins the Paragliding Race!
Congratulations to Mark and Claudio for completing the Lumby Air Race turn points Sunday June 15th to make the competition valid. $1000.00 cash was spit between two of the best pilots in Canada for their patience, good judgements, skills and efforts! Claudio also picked up $50.00 for PG spot landing as did Richard Bruneau and Stew Trowsdale picked up $100.00 for HG spot landing.
Though only 1 official race round was completed, many flights were flown from Saddle and a few from Coopers to keep the action going. Moist unstable weather with a strong westerly flow forced us to use Saddle Mountain launch for the entire 3 day competition. Mark raced the required minimum 3 laps around the 2 Saddle Mountain Turn points (10k) in 21 minutes and then completed a 10k FAI triangle in 21 minutes to finish his race scoring 26.66 points. http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/937231  
Claudio completed the required minimum 2 laps on Saddle and then went to work on his FAI triangle as well scoring 25.55 points. http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/937235  
The Celebration of Life and Light Saturday evening was great FUN!! Thanks Joy Far and the Belly Dancers for the great Mexican Food and dancing and thanks to all the musicians for the great live music. also...
Garth and I would like to give a special thanks to all the Pilots and volunteers for showing up and to the sponsors that help make it all possible including.....
Lumby Days Society, NORD, Super A Foods, Wills Wing, North Wing, Muller Wind Sports, Sun Dog eye wear, Raven Aviation, The Freedom Flight School and The Freedom Flight Park. 
Next year a full 7 or 8 days of racing is being considered to allow more pilots to compete and a chance for more better weather racing days. Stay tuned on this blog for details and dont forget that the winners of the 2014 season long Lumby Air Races for the 10k, 25k, 50k and 100k FAI triangles will be awarded cash prizes on Thanksgiving Day 2014. so remember....to always....Stay Calm, BeBOLD and Wait for the Sign : ) 

More event photos at 2014 Lumby Air Races Photos
Video from Russ Alcock at Lumby Air Races Video

Mark, Randy and Claudio

Garth, Randy and Mark

Garth, Randy and Claudio

As an incentive to promote local flying for 2014, The Lumby Air Force will put up cash to be shared for new official local triangle records with HG or PG launches from Coopers or Saddle Mountain or for flights originating by tow from the Freedom Flight Park. 
The 2014 race will be over Sept 30th. The prizes will be given in December for the fastest time around a pilot designated 25km, 50km and 100 km FAI triangle as determined by official track logs uploaded to the British Columbia Cross Country League http://www.westcoastsoaringclub.com/comps/bcxcleague.php 
and properly authenticated and witnessed. 
There will only be an OPEN class for PG and HG for local records and any records that become official FAI world records in any FAI class will be given an extra bonus. 
All entries must be received within 10 days of the flight to qualify for the prizes.
Congratulations to...
2013 Season Long Race winners Al Thielmann for 100 km PG Triangle Race and Andrew Berkley 50 km PG Triangle Race.

to enter online Click Here 
http://lumbyairraces.weebly.com/resources.html 

 

48 pilots entered and the awards were handed out Sunday evening.
The winds were much stronger than usual and made tasks difficult to accomplish.
Monday turned on and some records were broken for speed PG FAI 100k triangle and longest airtime for a foot launched flight.
Congratulations to Al Theilmann, 106.2 km FAI triangle (7 hours 19 min) , Andrew Berkley 79.6 km triangle (7hr. 45 min), Peter Spear 83.6 km triangle and all the other pilots that had good flights from Coopers on that Monday.

More awards will be given out for anyone launching from Coopers or Saddle, after this years Lumby Racing Season is over Sept 30th, for anyone that can break a local or FAI record for the 25km, 50km and 100km fai triangles. If you think you are in the running please email me and have in your subject line " New LAR 2013 Record" Thanks Randy Rauck

More details to follow soon

Final LAR 2013 Results
Hang Gliding
Stewart Trowsdale wins Open and King Post class 
2nd Open Tim Middlemiss , 
3rd Open Tie  Gaetan Pellerin and Dave Wagner
2nd King Post John Theoret .
3rd King Post Tie  Garth Hemming, Robert Krider, Cole Krider 

Paragliding
1st Tom Clark
2nd Bill Goglin
3rd Jim Orava
4th Tonya Solaris
5th Peter Spear
6th Corine Orava
7th Andrew Berkley

We will do this again in 2018. Be sure to upload the waypoint file to your GPS for 2018 and bring your cable.

In the air is NOT the place to learn your GPS. On the evening before the competition we are holding a GPS Tutorial Course for those that want to get up to speed on their particular models with plenty of time for testing scenarios. Register through the footer below and specify your desire for this course and your make/model. Also, be sure to bring your GPS transfer cable.