2024 Paragliding Accuracy League

Accuracy Leagues Previous Winners

 

Year Paragliding Accuracy
2005 Andy Shaw
2006 Andy Shaw
2007 Nick Simmons
2008 Nick Simmons
2009 Don Bodill
2010 Andy Shaw
2011 Andy Webster
2012 Andy Webster
2013 Andy Webster
2014 Billy Elliston
2015 Matthew Bignell
2016 Andy Webster
2017 Simon Sykes Jnr
2018 Andy Shaw
2019 William Lawrence
2020 Katie Sykes
2021 Simon Sykes
2022 Andy Shaw
2023 Matt Bignell

 

Paragliding Accuracy League Rules

  1. The league is run over one calendar year with the winner announced when there are no more eligible competitions. The British Paragliding Accuracy National Championships and any British competition run to FAI Section 7C rules have league status. Other Cat 2 competitions are eligible for league status as long as the leagues officer is advised of UK pilot’s attendance within one month of the event taking place. All the above competitions require their date to be announced more than two months (e.g. 20th of a month to 20th of month two months later) prior to the event taking place.
  2. The league is open to all BHPA members of any pilot rating. However, the league is not open to pilots who fly in the national novice competition.
  3. At each competition the number of league points awarded to the top placed British pilot will be equivalent to the number of British pilots in attendance up to a maximum limit of 30 points. The second placed British pilot will get one less point and so on. Tied pilots will get the same score that is equivalent to the higher placing they occupy. Pilots who gain the maximum score in a competition (ZAP every round) will only get one point, however, pilots who do achieve scores will still be awarded points based on the number of pilots that they have beaten.
  4. A pilot can turn up late to or leave early from a league competition if two weeks prior notice is given to the meet director for unavoidable foreseen circumstances. If a pilot has a valid reason to be late or leave early, then he / she will be allowed to catch up or bank flights at no detriment to their league points. The pilot’s position in a competition resulting from the above shall be at the meet director’s discretion. If a pilot needs to leave a league competition early then they should be asked to bank an estimated number of flights. If this estimated number of flights turns out to be insufficient then the pilot must take the maximum score. Also where a pilot has to bank flights or catch up flights, the flights should not be consecutive and there should be a reasonable amount of time between flights.
  5. If unavoidable unforeseen circumstances should occur within two weeks then the matter will be treated as per competition rules where permission to fly out of order is at the launch marshal’s discretion.
  6. Pilots best three out of four or more valid paragliding accuracy competitions will count to the end of year league title.
  7. In the event of a tie for any of the places, the total distance scores obtained by the tied pilots in the competitions at which they all competed will be calculated and the pilot with the lowest total distance score will be awarded the higher position in the league. If there is still a tie situation then the pilot with the lowest individual score or most number of lowest individual scores at all competitions at which they competed will be awarded the higher position.
  8. The winner of the league will be awarded the returnable Airways Accuracy League trophy.
  9. The above league rules can not be changed by a unanimous pilot vote.
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