Lonestar lonestar xc championship

Lonestar Hearne, Texas

The LoneStar XC camp is designed for all levels of paraglider pilots, who want to improve thermal and XC skills in a low stress environment. Texas offers consistent strong smooth lift with amazing cloud streets. 100 mile flights are common place in Hearne, Texas.

Daily clinics and discussions about flying XC and all related topics.

There will be (2) open distance tasks during the 6 day event.

This is the site of the two longest race to goal tasks ever completed in the world. 198 kms.

Lonestar 2026

The event takes place in late July-early August.

No dates have been defined yet for the next edition.

Entry fee is $300, 10% goes to prize money, and includes t-shirt, XC retrieval, scoring, awards ceremony and dinner. Tow/retrieve fee is $300.

We average 5 out of 6 days flown and many pilots fly personal bests, scoring, prize money and awards ceremony.

Plenty of hotels, restaurants and Big Miles!

40 pilot limit.

Spot or other GPS tracking device highly recommended.

Scoring

Each pilot must have an approved GPS device that can record their track log from each day's flight. These tracks should be downloaded and emailed to our score keeper. We use FAI-approved score software, following the established rules and using the standard algorithms.

Waypoints

You can download the waypoints for the competition here

Name T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 Total
Dennis Johnson 859 942 43 164 968 154 3,130
Rick Fullmer 902 173 356 924 0 0 2,355
David Prentice 370 363 1000 33 936 844 3,546
Chad James 287 69 80 221 477 318 1,452
Trent Okeson 736 1000 28 966 1000 765 4,495
Brandon Brantley 1000 269 953 509 580 692 4,003
Wes Aycock 77 407 28 76 162 68 818
Austin Entrop 588 359 225 24 118 247 1,561
Connor Iseli 947 483 430 1000 919 726 4,505
Jiri Rutner 317 40 34 130 26 0 547
Valter Castilho 731 774 912 57 967 675 4,116

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