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Official SDHGPA Site XC Records

SDHGPA Official Site Records


Record Definitions and Qualifications:
Straight Line Records are Distance Made Good / Max Distance between any two points on the flight path / Max Distance in Leonardo

Out and Return: Measured by Max straight line x2 if full out and return completed or Max straight line distance + return distance length from further point out.

Triangle:  FAI triangle distance as measured in Leonardo without multipliers

Prior Records: Flights are listed as Prior records if the flight held the record for any length of time even if the site record was subsequently broken on the same day.
Notable Flights are recognized flights that Pioneered an XC route:
  • Furthest flight in a given flight path or route
  • 1st flight in a given direction/ route that pioneered the route
  • 1st flight in a given direction/ route to reach a milestone or prior hurdle on a given route
To qualify for Site Records: 
  • The full flight must be a Clean Flight without flight violations.  Any flight that results in a documented legal infraction (FAA or local law enforcement), will disqualify that flight from being a site record. Simply, flights violating air space will be disqualified and not scored for the SDHGPA XC contest or Site Record listing. Also, all Site Requirements also need to be fulfilled to comply with landowner and local ordnances for the Site. Laguna, Palomar, Big Black, and Little Black require USHPA and SDHGPA membership to be current the day of the flight per use agreements and permits.
  • Flights after 2012 must have tracklogs submitted to Leonardo

​Other Records and Notable Flights
​First San Diego 100 milers (HG):
​105, 103, &101, Horse to Twenty-nine Palms area, Steve Koji, Glen Volk, and Cindy Windsor, 5/28/84
Tandem record (HG): 54 miles to La Quinta?, Dave Seaberg and Sandy King, ~1990
Altitude record (HG): 16,500’, at Laguna launch, Bill Helliwell and Mike Tryon, 5/23/01 
Altitude record (PG): 16,500’, at Horse Canyon, Tad Hurst, 9/2/02
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