General Briefing 2025

IT WILL BE UPDATET BEFORE AND AFTER THE GENERAL BRIEFING!

Welcome to Disentis!

• Marc Demont, former President of the local Club (area, landings, and, and, and - and task setting)
• Schmo, Marco Schmed (infrastukture, take off)
• Nicolas Huper (Safety)
• Oliver Flügel (Trackers)
• Marco Vergari (Airspace, Task App)
• Rüdiger Gördes (Take Off Marshall)
• Michaela Fürer (HQ and Retrieve)
• Renato Ruginelli and Peter Stierli (drivers of our two Buses)
• Karin Koch (Coffee at Caischavedra and much more)
• Heinz Schlauri, Uwe Schneller, Silvan Manetsch, Pelle Stolt, Sepp Müller and many assistants without a specific job, but always ready for us!

All together more then 25 assistants! Many thanks to all of them!

• Andy Busslinger (photographer, will arrive Thuersday)
• Renato Barnetta (Media)

And my successors:

• Jörg Ewald. Jörg will lead most of the briefings, Meteo, Tasksetting, Scoring)
• Jérôme Kägi (Meteo, Tasksetting, together with Jörg and our team)
• Raphael Oerer (Event Manager from 2026 on)

Sponsors

• Jack&Jones (Davide Licini, T-Shirts, Gifts)
• Niviuk (Prizes, Vouchers of CHF 2000)
• Gin Gliders (Prizes)
• La Sportiva (Prizes, great Gore-Jackets)
• Valser (Bottles, Cash)
• Kaffeepause (Mark Raddatz: good Koffee)
• Digital Republic (free Sim Cards)
• SSSD, Giusi Flepp (office)

And the big support of Catrina Resort, Graubünden Sport and the Swiss Hangliding Federation.

Information, Communication

We use a Telegramm Group for all Infos (meteo, timing, task-file and so on). You can register yourself with this link:

Official Chat 2025 (at the moment it is open):
https://t.me/+BhkGZhsPPBxlM2Jk

Open chat:
https://t.me/+5HdkAYjEbIIxODM0 

Program

Our Website (program) is up to date. These evenings are planned according to the weather:

General

Campers:
Only for Camper-Vans and Minibusses. NO Tents (it is a political issue). Do NOT use the Car-Parc behind the Hotel (some places should be free for Hotel Guests)
12.-/p/night, excl. tourist tax
- Please pay your amount at the reception of Catrina Lodge. You will get a receipt, which must be placed under the windscreen.
- only 1 shower (please respect women :-))
- toilets are open during the night
- cleaning once / day (from the Loge)

Wireless:
- HQ
- all along the cable-car (first login is difficult, you find the information at the cable car station)
- free Sim-Cards from Digital Republic (help for activation)

Gliders:
You can leave your gliders downstairs at HQ (not locked)

Shuttle from the campsite:
If necessary, we organise transport in the morning from the camping and the town-center

Sandwiches at Caischavedra:
If you want a sandwich, it's better to order (and pay for) the day before.

Coffee, tee and croissant at middle station:
Thanks to our sponsor kaffeepause.ch we will have 2 Coffee machines in the middle station for good coffee. Croissants are offered from the organisation.

Photos/Video:
- Official photographer is Andy Busslinger
- I will make videos
- The link for free download of this material will be published at Telegram.

Retrieval

Retrieval with offitial carrier RHB, MGB and Postauto. We will publish a promotional code for the return journey via Telegram. It is the same code for the hole week. 
We have to use the SBB App or their website at sbb.ch.

Instructions: Retrieval 

Tracker

• Oliver Flügel
• Please remember your tracker number
• The trackers will be handed out at the middle station Caischavedra
• Switch on tracker before start (left button, then right button / short operating instructions). At the gate you will be asked, if your tracker is on.
• most trackers you cannot switch off yourself
• Tracker return: Normally at HQ.

Livetracking-Link:
https://livetrack360.com/livetracking/2d/6972

Meteo

- Meteo-Briefing ONLY AT TELEGRAM in the morning. We make only an update at the Briefing.

www.meteo-shv.ch, www.meteo-fsvl.ch
   - User: info@disentis-open.ch
   - Key: DO20

Safety

Safety phone (forwardet to Nicolas Huber) +41 77 478 39 02 
Headquarter and Retrieve phone  +41 77 275 18 03

The REGA (Swiss helicopter system) is informed about our competition.

• Serious accidents:
  Call the REGA
  1414 (Swiss phones) or +41 333 333 333
  112 (this goes to the police, but will be forwarded)
  Download the REGA-App (Swiss phones only). You can call very easy emergency.
• "normal" accidents:
  Call the safety number. We will act accordingly (and call the REGA if you are safe).
• Tree landings and rescue:
  Call us! We have professional tree operators and we will inform the REGA about the incident.
  
  

Radio

Main radiosystem is PMR

• Channel 7-38. To enter manually: 446.08125 / 250.3 rt-cdc 
• Infos to PMR
• 157 400 (limited to  take-off and landing site, Martin in the air)

Telephone number

Level System, Task-App
https://www.swissleague.ch/task for anonymous level messages. It workes only with our trackers!

Complete instrucktion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pninh5rS_3zZp7OnMkw8VvIGrrclqaCuhrTpqzR7WsU/edit?usp=sharing

At XCTrack:
Individual buttons can be displayed with this link: https://www.swissleague.ch/task?widget=level2 - Widget id 1, 2 or 3 for the respective level button or also combined, e.g. widget=level12 for the buttons level 1 and level 2.

• swissleague.ch/task?widget=level1
• swissleague.ch/task?widget=level23

The task status (running / stopped) can be displyed in a seperate widget:

• swissleague.ch/task?widget=status

In this case, however, the login must be done in a separate widget!

But messages are still possible by all means (radio, phone).

• Level 1 = good flying, good conditions.
• Level 2 = at the limit, but still ok.
• Level 3 = you should stop the task 

You can report back with this App (you don't get a answhere „report back successful“, but you see your report back in the App).

Registration SMS

Once only at registration “para start so” (Swiss Open) to the CCSS-Number +41 79 381 60 10. You will not get your tracker, no start, without SMS !

• We assume that everyone starts every day.
• Report back every day (App or SMS para stop to +41 79 381 60 10) 

Tasksetting-Team

• Marc Demont and Martin
• Jörg Ewald and Jérôme Kägi
• Pilots: Roger Aeschbacher and Steph Morgenthaler
• Task supervisor (checks details). Manuela Pfrunder
• Dedicatet person for feedback (feedback goes to this person, often this person can answer questions): Davide Licini

Who else will join the (Tasksetter) team? 

Election.

Provisional task will be published at Telegram at least 20 min prior the briefing. All pilots are encouraged to think critically about the task and give feedback early enough.

Task Stopping

• Marc Demont, Martin and Jörg
• In addition, an "independent, experienced pilot" is to be elected. Davide Licini?
  
  

Rules

Rules at this Disentis Open:

• Penalty for wildlive restrictions: 1 pt / m
• Penalty for official airspaces: Zero for the task
• Scoring Formula GAP 2025
• The FTV “reject rate” is set to 25 %.
• Parameter: 70km nominal Dist., 1:40 nominal Time, 30% Goal, 5km min. Dist, 95% Take Off

Airspace
www.disentis-open.ch - Airspace

Wildlife protection
www.disentis-open.ch - Wildlife

Flight Area

Landing site

• Wind conditions:
  Valley wind, normal is 15-30 kmh
  South wind, is ok when weak (convergency)
  Wind from West and North is not normal
• Cable? No, but powerline
• Danger: The house at left and right

Landing Trun, Ilanz and other will be explained at task briefing

In the event of an off-field landing

• fold your glider (if not, other pilots think you need help)
• Immediately leave meadows
• fold your glider on low gras or small roads

Take Off site

• Wind normally comes from SW (from front-right)
• Danger: Chairlift

Flight area Disentis
www.disentis-open.ch - Flight Area Disentis

https://map.geo.admin.ch

Map with valley wind systems and downwind zones
- valley wind systems
- downwind-zones

Short introduction to the area
by Cross Country Magazine

Thank you! Lets have a good and safe week!

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