Paragliding

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 CIVL online database of pilots, competitions and results which includes pilots and nations ranking system has just been enhanced with the option of including photographs of pilots. Check out the Womens' Paragliding ranking

http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=329&ladder_id=3&ranking_date=2007-08-01&
or Paragliding Nations ranking
http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=328&ladder_id=3&ranking_date=2007-08-01&
to give you an idea of how it will look.

For the next edition of the World Air Games the FAI has decided to go for a new and more media concentrated and media friendly set up of the event.
The event for approximately 20 different air sport disciplines should be:
· organised at (or close to) one location
· one week duration
· focused on media and public friendly air sport disciplines
· attended by the top pilots of the air sports

The new, improved World Pilot Ranking System (WPRS) is up and running!
A new formula for calculating the World Pilot Ranking System (WPRS), proposed by the CIVL Scoring & Ranking Systems and Software Working Group, was discussed and agreed at the Plenary meeting in Talloires, France, in February 2007. The agreed implementation date was 1st March, 2007.

The new formula marks a significant improvement on the old versions, and importantly, the same formula can now be used for all disciplines. The disciplines covered by the WPRS include: Paragliding XC, Paragliding Accuracy, Paragliding Aerobatics (Syncro and Solo), Hang Gliding XC Class1, Hang Gliding XC Class 2, Hang Gliding Class 5 and Hang Gliding Aerobatics. Within each discipline, the rankings for Nations and Women are also listed.