IPC Competition Rule Changes 2008

[ltdiver 3]

The IPC has updated their Competition Rules and the notification came through e-mail just this morning.

http://www.fai.org/parachuting/documents/sportingcode2008

For those of us involved in 4-way RW (and vRW), here are the changes they implemented.

http://www.fai.org/parachuting/system/files/fs_changes_2008.pdf

Looks like the video review 1/2 speed wasn't given the nod, nor the change in turn direction for block #13 (Hammer-Hammer).

However, they did implement the possibility of a lower jump altitude (7,000') and reduced working time (20 seconds) for those inclement days that don't allow full altitude.

IPC Comp Rules as well as your own National Organization Comp Rules (for me that's USPA). I've seen more than once that an IPC rule has been invoked when it wasn't covered in the USPA manual. For example, the 20% penalty rule when a team's exit could not be viewed by the videographer's film angle. Not in the USPA Comp manual, but it IS in the IPC Comp Manual and WAS used to penalize a team at the 2007 Nationals at SDC.>

ltdiver

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