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Safety and training
(photo : Malbos/CIVL)
This Subcommittee develops the distribution and promotion of IPPI Cards and encourages all countries to use them to ensure pilot proficiency for both visiting pilots and their own pilots when travelling abroad.
It assembles and analyses statistics on hang gliding and paragliding in member countries.
It takes part, as far as possible, in work carried out by other international organisations for making standards that will affect hang glider or paraglider pilots.
It provides a forum for the exchange of information and discussion of safety and training matters.
This Subcommittee is chaired by Scott Torkelsen.
Contact Scott Torkelsen
Scott has been flying paragliders since 1987 including World, European and World Cup as well as National championships. He is still a very active pilot, however he only competes in National championships now. Has been a board member of the Danish NAC since 1995 as well as previous President of the Danish hang gliding and paragliding association (DHPU). He is still a delegate for CIVL and EHPU. He has maintained a full time chiropractic practice since 1987 and is an active lecturer throughout Europe on skeletal injury, biomechanics and rehabilitation to both humans and animals.
The IPPI Card
CIVL proficiency badges
CIVL proficiency badges are standards of achievement, intended to provide a graduated scale of difficulty to measure and encourage the development of a pilot’s flying skill, particularly in cross-country flying.
And The World Could Fly
...tells the story of how piloting for the masses became a possibility and then a reality. Edited by Stéphane Malbos and Noel Whittall, this new book is produced by the international Hang Gliding and Paragliding Commission (CIVL) to celebrate the centenary of FAI. [ read more ]