Erick Angles <http://ozreport.com/emailer.php?toName=atout.vents&code=61746s757420646s742076656r7473206174206672656520646s74206672/>
writes:

This competition has been quite challenging for the pilots as this
is was the first official competition ever organised in Chile. As well as for
me, being a young meet director and having to deal mostly with experienced
pilots who fly well, but never participated in a comp and didn’t really
understand what was a Meet Director or what entailed to be in a Cat. 2 FAI
Event.

30 Pilots from 6 nationalities and the sports class was well represented. We
have had tasks every day up to 161 Kms for the flex and 88Kms for the Sports
Class so that’s 6 tasks total. The flying conditions were not easy though as
this is not plane and simple ridge racing has you could expect it to be.

The updated final results after we adjusted them for the pilots who landed to
assist the pilot who did the tumbling on Task 1:

https://airtribune.com/hgiquiqueopen2016/results

Official Prize Ceremony pictures by photgrapher Kaethner Mar from Argentina
here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7D_ZqiU5fLiZHBDUloyaVlsRlE

There was 1 fatal accident (collision with a free flying PG pilot who is
deceased and the hang glider competition pilot who is still in the hospital, but
out of danger) on training day and two incidents (tumbling on Day 1 and blown
take off on Day 2, luckily resulting in no injuries what so ever). I have just
finished to file the accident reports with CIVL.

And here are all the links gathered for easier access…

Video from loading the gliders in Santiago etc.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fQI0ls2MQ

Video from Training day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDOakpkCw0Q and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LT8szvZzds

Video from Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlScvwXMJ08

Video from Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwTQYEgboGs

Video from Day 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oHdDleLdho

Video from Day 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltrg8D9zegk

Video from Day 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGUx8i65TC0

Day 6 and General Promo video with lots of flying footage will come soon. I have
gathered over 450GB of videos during the comp so here is the Youtube channel
link to subscribe as there will be more videos edited for sure in the next few
months.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5GNAPzy1TFHdomyNLTBDdw

This was my first South American culture experience and I have to say that this
has been the most amazing free flight experience of my life. I have never met
such beautiful people inside and out. So warm, welcoming, generous, humble
people and so loving and caring about each other. Bonds were made straight form
the go between all pilots from the various nationalities present at the meet.
The way they cared about the injured pilot going at the hospital every day and
chipping in for his plane ticket so he could be transferred back for surgery in
Santiago etc. was just amazing.

I would like to thank all the pilots and partners involved. The whole staff, The
local organisation Club Alas Delta Deportivo, Viente de Frente and my good
friend Gerardo Rocha who won the sports class, Christian Cid
(christiancid.com),
XC Magazine and Icaro 2000, The City of Iquique, Airtribune and Elena, Brett XC,
and Atout Vents (co organiser of the event)…

We hope to see many more pilots from many more countries for the second edition
in 2017 which we hope will also be the first National Chilean Championship
(Open).