With something for everyone, the CIVL Plenary meeting combined discussions, resolutions, clarifications, training and practical sessions. Diverse topics included new scoring software, new rules on team entries and scoring, resolutions on air marshals, progress on HG pitch stability discussions, continental championships for 2010 and a myriad details. The full minutes will be available very soon.

After a difficult few weeks for the Brazilian organisers, it has just been confirmed that the 1st FAI Pan-American Paragliding Championship has been given the ‘all-clear’ to proceed. It will now definitely happen in March 2008!

The Canungra Cup (PG XC event in Australia) was organised as a two round competition this year and the organisers applied for each round to be sanctioned as a separate competition, each with a set of non-overlapping dates. They subsequently sent in results for a single competition covering the combined dates and these were inadvertently input to the WPRS in this form. After complaints were made, the matter was referred to the Bureau which decided that the results should be split and input to the two separate competitions, as they were applied for, sanctioned and published on the FAI Competition Calendar.

The minutes of the CIVL Bureau Meeting held in Reykjavik, Iceland, 18 to 20th October, are now available for downloading. The document records the decisions made by the Bureau following detailed discussions and reviews of competition, subcommittee and working group reports generated since the last Plenary in February. http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/meetings/bureau

Highlights from this year’s Bureau Meeting in October, in Iceland include:
• Agreement that Italy will hold the Women’s World Hang Gliding class 1, World Hang Gliding Class 5 and possibly Class 2 Championships combined in July 2008.
• Agreement that CIVL will run a trial World Online XC Competition in 2008.
• Significant progress in the new FS flight scoring and verification system. Beta version should be available before the end of the year.
• World Air Games – promising to be a highly prestigious event in Turin in 2009.
A word of warning – the 1st Pan American Paragliding Championship, scheduled for March 2008, could be in jeopardy if Brazil does not pay its FAI membership fee.