Hubbard's personal best third placing among Australia's best gliders puts him within reach of national selection for the 2015 World Hang Gliding Championships in Mexico.

It is something that has eluded him throughout his career as a hang gliding pilot.

"They take the top six on the ladder and, although they haven't updated the positions, I'd be up there," Hubbard said.

"If I get the opportunity I'd be mad not to - even though I've got reservations about it, I think I should go anyway.

"I've been doing it a long time and I haven't been in a position to accumulate enough points, with the exception of one year where I got picked to go with the Australian team over to the European Championships, but my wife was due with our second child.

"I only ever did one major competition a year which was normally Forbes. Now the kids have left, I've backed off work a bit and I have the chance to compete a bit more and it's making it a bit easier for me to qualify."

The six-day AA standard Dalby event brings together those in contention for national honours as well as some international competitors.

Hubbard's consistency throughout the competition, together with a first and a second placing on day 1 and day 2 respectively paid dividends with the final results leaving him just 362 points adrift of the winner Steve Blenkinsop and New Zealander John Smith.

Although Hubbard felt his lowest position of 13th could have been better, it was a gamble at high altitude that could have produced something special.

"I was trying to beat the gaggle [the circling gliders in an upward thermal] and I made a decision to go for it to another thermal and I looked back over my shoulder and they were climbing so well - I thought I've blown it," he said.

"You need to take that risk - if I'd have flown to the gaggle there were probably a dozen pilots in there and by the time you get there you are near the bottom and need to climb. I thought I could have got further up if I had of stayed on my own, but it didn't work out that way and I probably should have played the percentages.

"You get points for your position in the field, which includes lead-out points, that rewards people who are out in front pushing. The guys who sit in the gaggle and suck off the rest are penalized in a way because they are not prepared to take the risk as you can sit on people and cover their moves."

Hubbard also took the chance to work closely with good friend Len Paton from Forbes to gain an advantage over the field, something which is common in competition.

"We've been flying together for a long time - we were on the same radio channel and we were able to help each other," Hubbard said.

"If you were out in front, you could call where a good thermal is. If they're not in a good lift they can take off and head for it.

"We were helping each other beat the rest of them and then when it comes down to the last glide from the last thermal, it's every man for himself."

The season-ending competition, an international standard AAA meet at Canungra near Mount Tamborine on the Gold Coast in October, will be the final hurdle and decide Hubbard's fate.

A similar result will see Hubbard packing his poncho bound for Mexico.

"I hope to go well and book a spot in the team, that would be nice and I'd be rapt," he said.