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Competition
(photo : Vol Libre)
You can play with the air, you can fly for pure pleasure. You can also fly to compete against the best – both pilots and gliders!
Hang gliding and paragliding are held regularly, both as individual and team events, both as Category 1 (World and Continental Championships) or Category 2 (registered in the FAI Sporting Calendar as such) events.
All competitions, pilots and results
For problems and constructive criticism…
Concerning competition in general:
Contact Paula Sayer
Concerning the GAP and RACE programs:
Contact Agúst Gudmundsson
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 ]