The Santa Cruz Flats Race 2010 is on!

13th edition of the Cross Country event at the Brazilian Sertao.

THE XCeará OFFICIAL HISTORY NUMBERS TODAY ARE:
- 461,8 km - South American PG Record - Marcelo Prieto, Rafael Saldini e Frank Brown (Brasil)
- 302 Km - World Female Paragliding Record – Petra Krausova (Czech Rep)
- 452 km - South American Hang Gliding Record - André Wolf (Brasil)

UNBEATABLE RECORD ! - 12 years - 7 days a year - 100% of flyable tasks

XCEARÁ - Confidence of GOOD XC Flights !

Single XCXC task. Registration is free. Pilot meeting at HQ at 9h00

This is an open invitation to all HG/PG pilots in Ottawa (All Canadian pilots are welcome) for a X-Country competition and to fly with and challenge a world HG pilot champion, Linda Salamone, in her first visit to Canada. This event will be held on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of July.

Linda is one of the U.S's leading women competitive pilots. she was just recently ranked in the top ten in the world.

She kindly accepted my invitation to put Ottawa on her busy flying summer calendar between the pre-women's worlds in Germany and US National in Florida.

The Santa Cruz Flats Race 2009 is on!

Lasy year's most popular competition has changed dates to benefit from lingering monsoonal moisture that will hopefully bring cumulus this year. The dates are September 20-26 with a practice day on the 19th.

As usual, we will be staying at the Francisco Grande Hotel http://www.franciscogrande.com/ 800-237-4238 Please reserve your rooms ASAP, we have reserved a limited block of rooms that may not accomodate everyone.

Registration opens Monday morning, 9 AM eastern time here: http://goflyxc.com/2009/santa_cruz_flats