Air sports people are aware of the need to maintain a balanced environment. All air sport participants have an influence on the environment, humans and wild-life, and affect the basic resources of life - land, air and water - by, for example:
The need for land: e.g. areas for taking off, landing, buildings, parking and access roads.
The consumption of energy: e.g. depletion of non-renewable resources.
Creating waste, noise and emissions: e.g. aircraft and vehicle use.
This means that we have to design our flying sites and conduct our operations with environmental awareness and sensitivity. The organisers and providers of flying sites cannot do this alone:
The responsibility for environmental awareness in air sports lies primarily with the individual air sport enthusiast
Air sport enthusiasts and their clubs must therefore commit themselves to the protection and improvement of the natural environment by means of... [see next pages]
