WXC Registration

The New Zealand XContest league has been linked up with the FAI/CIVL WXC.

"The philosophy of the WXC is to connect current and new online contests into a network of contests. Pilots use their favorite contest to claim flights. Without any additional step the flight is also claimed to the CIVL WXC contest, along with flights from pilots all over the world."

Pilots with a vaild CIVL ID on their XContest profile will automatically have their flights sent to the WXC, no other work required.

CIVL IDs (If you have one) can be found here. Make sure to update it on your XContest profile!

http://wxc.fai.org

Championship Results

Last Season Wrap Up

(April 1st 2019 to March 31st 2020)

Big shout out to all pilots who flew and logged their flights in our biggest season to date. A total of 1923 flights, which has almost doubled in two seasons. We had 12 flights over 100km including Louis’ record breaking 196km triangle. A bunch of site records broken and from all accounts a pretty cracking season. Congratulations to Louis who has won the championship for the 2^nd season in a row.

Here are a few highlights:

• A 196km FAI triangle, (Tapper, 196km, Treble Cone)
• A 124km North Island flat triangle, (Tapper, 124km, Kaimai)
• A new open distance record for Kaimai (MacDonald, 84.1km, Kaimai)
• A new open distance record for Moirs Hill (Ripley, 98.2km, Moirs Hill)
• This epic flight across the alps (Hughes-Games, 107km, Mt Murchison)
• Biggest non-triangle free-flight (Karnik, 130km, Coronet Peak)
• Twelve NZ 100km+ flights

This current season is already kicking off with a few XC flights down south and we are looking forward to an epic summer!

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2020 NZ XC Champions and Category Winners

* 1st place and 2020 NZ XC Champion: Louis Tapper

* 1st Runner Up: Mark MacDonald

* 2nd Runner Up: Nick Neynens

* 2020 Women's XC Champion: Sanae Noguchi

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Check out all the results here

Macpara Book draw

Congratulations to Jeff Ripley who has won the Macpara book draw for the 19/20 season! Jeff has won his choice of book from the CrossCountry online book store.

Macpara NZ are once again sponsoring the book draw for their fifth season in a row. To be in the draw all you need to do is submit one (valid) local flight on the New Zealand XContest.

Big thanks to Nick Taber and Macpara for keeping the XC spirit alive.

New Season

The new XContest season has started for New Zealand and flying is permitted again!

Have fun and STAY SAFE!
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North Island records tumble on super Thursday

Mark MacDonald and Peter Jones both broke the Kaimais open distance record on Thursday. Mark flew on further to now hold the record at 84.1 km.


Meanwhile, further North, Evan Lamberton dusted the Moirs open distance record with a flight of 88.56 km.