Author Archives: Albert Berchtold
Tommy Dellibac wins meet 4 in Raeford
This years meet in Raeford was another great event. Thirty competitors showed up from around the US along with Yuri Chernechov from Ukraine who finished off his training trip to the US with this meet. There were Eighteen competitors in the … Continue reading
PRO/AM test competition in Raeford
Chatting with Greg Windmiller from the Golden Knights we came up with a fun plan for this weekend’s FLCPA meet in Raeford. After the draw is done and exit orders are assigned, we’ll be matching up each PRO with a random Amateur … Continue reading
PD Tveir 2012
With the support of Performance Designs in celebration of their 30th Anniversary, we are proud to announce a fantastic *Pro Only” meet for the 2012 season. In an effort to keep things new and fresh we’ve come up with a new challenging format … Continue reading
2012 FLCPA season is heating up!
With the third meet in the books, lets take a look at how the season overalls are shaping up. In the PRO class, Tommy Dellibac is in the lead with 196.9 points after two meets, followed by Curt Bartholomew with 195.4. … Continue reading
Tom Dellibac wins FLCPA meet #3
This past weekend was FLCPA meet #3 at Skydive the Farm. 35 competitors came out for the meet 19 Pro, 16 Amateur. This being the venue for this years CP Nationals, it was great to get some runs in on … Continue reading
FLCPA #3 at Skydive the Farm this weekend
On the heels of 64 competitors at Meet 2 everyone’s got their eyes set on Skydive the Farm to see if we have the same turnout. I’ll start the list…don’t forget to preregister…… 1. Albert Berchtold 2. Greg Windmiller 3. … Continue reading
FLCPA #2 Weathered out
Sixty four competitors showed up for the second meet of the 2012 FLCPA season. The practice days were busy through the entire week leading up to the Saturday event. The forecast didn’t look too good, and by the end of the … Continue reading
HUGE turnout expected for FLCPA #2
This weekend will be the second of five meets this season. The first meet in ZHills last month drew 44 competitors, and this months meet is looking like it will be even bigger. My guess is we’ll have around 60 … Continue reading
New selection process for US National team
The USPA recently updated their process for selecting the US National Canopy Piloting team. Historically CP has taken the top 8 in a world meet year, and 12 for a world cup from the overall placings. The new criteria used … Continue reading
CP Fatality in Perris
This past weekend I sat at the USPA winter board meeting in San Diego, CA working to assist our board in continuing to improve our CP competition/rules. About 80 miles away the first meet of the California Canopy Piloting League was kicking … Continue reading
FLCPA League Director elected to USPA Board of Directors
Last year when Eric Florio was hired by USPA as director of communications he had to relinquish his seat on the board of directors(USPA staff members may not sit on the Board). This left an empty seat on the board. In accordance … Continue reading
USPA implements new CP Rules
This weekend the USPA BOD voted to carry out the new distance course for the open class that the IPC approved earlier this month. The new rules for the distance are to be published by the IPC on March 1st, and will be implemented into … Continue reading
USPA 2013 CP Nationals venue selected
This weekend the USPA board of directors gathered in San Diego, CA for their winter meeting. One of the items placed before the competition committee was a proposal from Skydive City in Zephyrhills Florida for the 2013 USPA National Championships of Canopy … Continue reading
CP World Cup 2013 venue announced
Some hot news for all you swoopers out there. The folks from Russia put in a bid for the 2013 World Cup of Canopy Piloting which was reviewed and accepted by the IPC earlier this month. Where: Cheboksary, Russia-600km east … Continue reading
FAI votes on new CP rules
This past week was the 63rd FAI plenary meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. February 7-12, 2012. Here’s the changes coming for this year… They had major rule changes to propose for acceptance by the Plenary, both for the Distance and the … Continue reading
Post FLCPA meet review of new potential rules
January 21, 2012 we held the first FLCPA meet of the season at SkydiveCity in Z-Hills FL. We ran the new courses to try and stay ahead of the game and get some people running them in competition. One of the nice things about … Continue reading
FLCPA Meet #1 Rocked!!!!
What an amazing start to the 2012 season!!! 44 competitors(24 amateur and 20 Pro) showed up to Z-Hills for the first meet of the season. We put the proposed FAI rules to the test and had some interesting results. I’ll write … Continue reading
FLCPA Meet #1 begins tomorrow morning!!!
It’s the end of the practice day here in z-Hills and with the number of swoopers around, you’d think it was US Nationals. There are 47 pilots(so far) registered for meet one of the 2012 FLCPA season. 22 in the PRO class and 25 in … Continue reading
Registered for FLCPA Meet #1?
1. Albert Berchtold-preregistered/member 2. Brian McNenney-preregistered/member 3. Zach Stone-preregistered/member 4. Marko Markovich-preregistered/member 5. Kritter Weiss-preregistered/member 6. Ryan Levesque-preregistered/member 7. Curt Bartholomew-preregistered/member 8. Jeanie Anderson-preregistered/member 9. Bart Ragowski-preregistered/member 10. Tommy Dellibac-preregistered/member 11. Jessica Edgeington 12. Rob Wallace- preregistered/member 13. Kaz Sheekey 14. … Continue reading
NEW Rules & Courses for 2012
There are some upcoming rules for the FAI that are slated to have their final review and potentially passed at the plenary meeting coming up in February. These include some pretty big changes to our courses and rules for the … Continue reading