posted Dec 3rd, 2013 - The Aerodyne French Girls caught the attention of the Sun Path Products NSL News on Sunday when they posted the second highest score of all 4way teams at the 4th Dubai International Parachuting Championship 2013 in Round 5.

It happened again in Round 7, and it is only fair to show the combined leaderboard of the 4way Open and 4way Women events to honor this special achievement. This time, the French national team in the female category also climbed up the combined leaderboard. SDC Rhythm XP was in 3rd place after Round 5, and the Aerodyne French Girls have taken away the spot for the moment.

The French team needed help from Barkli, of course. Only a bad Russian round in combination with a great French round turns out with such a result. However, it is the second time that it happened, and the French team seems to be ready for an opportunity at any time. SDC Rhythm XP is also suffering from a head cold that JaNette Lefkowitz has to deal with, which surely doesn't make it easier to come up with perk performances.

4th DIPC 2013		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	11,H,12	F,15,10	A,N,E,Q,8	K,4,L,6	M,C,20,5	13,O,16	3,17,18	21,7,1	G,22,14	P,19,9	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa (BE)	23	24	32	27	29	22	23	-	-	-	180	25.7
2	Barkli (RU)	20	23	31	24	23	20	16	-	-	-	157	22.4
1	Aerodyne French Girls (FR)	17	20	24	22	26	19	18	-	-	-	146	20.9
3	SDC Rhythm XP (US)	19	19	26	22	25	17	17	-	-	-	145	20.7
4	Qatar Tigers (QA)	18	18	26	23	19	17	17	-	-	-	138	19.7

The original Aerokart Deep Blue world champions of 2010 were in a similar situation when they were the French national team in the female 4way category. Sophie Deremaux, Berangere Duplouy, Francoise Simons-Hamouchi and Amelie Tirman were worlds ahead of the other teams in the same 4way category and oriented themselves more with the help of the Open Class leaderboard.

The Aerodyne French Girls do have very serious opposition with the Golden Knights, as the exciting competition at the World Cup 2013 was showing very clearly. However, the Golden Knights are not in Dubai, and the Open Class leaderboard helps the French Girls in a similar way as it was in 2010.

The final scores of SDC Rhythm XP at the 4th DIPC will not only help to estimate the relationship between the Aerodyne French Girls and Golden Knights. It will also be an opportunity to crunch the numbers and see how the current relationship is between NMP-PCH Hayabusa and Arizona Airspeed...