The deadline for the submission of proposals for CIVA has now passed and several countries have provided many ideas for the improvement of Sporting Code and CIVA Regulations. These proposals can be downloaded here.

The CIVA Rules and Judging Sub-Committees will meet in Ljungbyhed, Sweden on 4 August 2004 to consider the proposals that relate to power aerobatics. The CIVA Glider Aerobatics Sub-Committee will meet in the Czech Republic during the EGAC.

Members of the aerobatic community are invited to submit their views to their national CIVA delegates or the relevant Sub-Committees. CIVA meets in Madrid, Spain on 25-26 September and will act upon the Sub-Committee recommendations at that time.

The 2004 versions of the CIVA Programme Q (Knowns) are now available for viewing here.

These flight programmes can be viewed online or downloaded as VSD (Visio) files and the necessary contest forms produced from this format. They are effective 1st January 2004 and will be flown at all FAI Aerobatics Championships scheduled next year.

Mr. Jose Luis Aresti of Spain passed away yesterday, 18 November 2003 in Madrid.

Born in Bilbao, Spain, he began flying in the 1930's and was an aerobatic flight instructor in the Spanish Air Force during World War II, providing them their first aerobatic flight manual. Aresti went on to found several pilot training schools after the war and became active in the airshow circuit around Europe flying the Bucker Jungmeister.

Very active in the early years of CIVA as the Delegate of Spain -- which would host the WAC at Bilbao in 1964 -- his work on an aerobatic catalogue is what he became most known for. It was in 1964 that the "Aresti Aerocryptographic System" was introduced and approved by CIVA. At the time, some 3,000 maneuvers were catalogued along with difficulty coefficients (we know as K-factors today) and was used up until 1987. He was highly instrumental in obtaining government support for aerobatic flying in Spain which led to very successful aerobatic teams from Spain at WAC.

President of CIVA in 1968-1969 and its President of Honour up until his death, he was awarded the FAI Silver and Gold Medals for his work on the catalogue. He brought a professional standard to the cataloguing of aerobatic figures and provided a "shorthand" that was used internationally for decades --- thereby touching the lives of thousands of aerobatic pilots --- by enabling a competitor to easily diagram his or her aerobatic figures and sequences regardless of their native language.

Mr. Aresti's work touched the lives of thousands of aerobatic pilots around the world.

The deadline for the submission of rules proposals to CIVA closed last month. All of these documents are now available on this website.

Various CIVA sub-committees will be meeting this summer to consider these proposals. Rules and Judging will meet in Lakeland, Florida, USA, just prior to the World Aerobatic Championships on 24 June. The Glider Sub-Committee will meet in Hungary during the World Glider Aerobatic Championships.

Each committee will publish its recommendations thereafter and these recommendations will be considered by CIVA when it meets in plenary session in November. The meeting will take place on a cruise ship between Stockholm and Helsinki.

The 2003 versions of FAI Sporting Code (Section 6 - Aerobatics) and Parts 1 through 3 of CIVA Regulations (Unlimited, Glider, and Advanced) are now available for download here.

These documents include all of the rules changes approved at the plenary meeting of CIVA in Germany last November. The documents are in PDF format. Any comments on these Regulations should be directed to the President of CIVA, Mike Heuer at CIVAPres@compuserve.com.

The deadline for submission of rules proposals for 2004 is 1st April 2003.

The 2003 Known compulsory sequences are now available for Unlimited power, Advanced power, and Glider aerobatics. The power sequences are also referred to as the Q programme as it is a qualifying flight in Unlimited and Advanced.

These sequences are proposed each year by various member countries of CIVA and final selections are made by CIVA at its plenary meeting in November. Proposals for 2004 should be directed to your respective national Delegate to CIVA. Deadline for submission is 1 April 2003.

Please click here for the sequences.

The deadline for the submission of rules proposals for 2003 by Delegates to CIVA has now expired. Ten member countries of CIVA submitted documents by the April 1st deadline.

These proposals will be considered by the various CIVA Sub-Committees this summer. Rules & Judging Sub-Committees are scheduled to meet in Murska-Sobota, Slovenia during the Advanced World Aerobatic Championships. Sub-Committee recommendations will be published in late August 2002.

Ultimately, the recommendations will decided upon at the plenary meeting of CIVA which will take place in Madrid, Spain during the first weekend in November 2002. The aerobatic community is encouraged to contact your national delegates to provide input on these rules proposals. Members of Sub-Committees can also be contacted here.

Click here to go directly to the proposals themselves which are available for download in PDF format.

The 2002 versions of the FAI Sporting Code, Section 6 - Aerobatics and Parts 1 through 3 of CIVA Regulations are now available. These new documents are a result of extensive discussions held at sub-committee meetings and the CIVA plenary meeting in Prague in November 2001.

The files can be downloaded here and are in PDF format.

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