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How to set a RecordWhat’s up in May 2013?
Guido Gerhmann passed away. Our deepest sympathy to his family and friends. Nicky Moss was chosen to be our Competition Coordinator Officer. Congratz Nicky!
The 2013 version of Section 7 for Hang gliding and Paragliding have been published and are available on the Document chapter of our website. Somehow the Paragliding Accuracy, Records and badges, Aerobatic S7 are still to be published. Pilot selection for the coming Paragliding World championships in Sopot, Bulgaria, came to an end. 150 pilots from 39 countries should participate. FAME, the FAI Sports Marketing and Events Company, FAME, the FAI Sports Marketing and Events Company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CIVL. Both will to create project teams, with financial backing, to facilitate the creation and presentation of hang gliding and aerobatic events. Important and successful lobbying was done for FAI to improve its financial organization. Commissions will have a much better access to their accounts, now separate, hence will know at anytime where they stand. CIVL will test/spearhead the new organisation. Committee are exchanging extensively in our Basecamp working area…
What’s up in May 2013?
Guido Gerhmann passed away. Our deepest sympathy to his family and friends. Nicky Moss was chosen to be our Competition Coordinator Officer. Congratz Nicky!
The 2013 version of Section 7 for Hang gliding and Paragliding have been published and are available on the Document chapter of our website. Somehow the Paragliding Accuracy, Records and badges, Aerobatic S7 are still to be published. Pilot selection for the coming Paragliding World championships in Sopot, Bulgaria, came to an end. 150 pilots from 39 countries should participate. FAME, the FAI Sports Marketing and Events Company, FAME, the FAI Sports Marketing and Events Company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CIVL. Both will to create project teams, with financial backing, to facilitate the creation and presentation of hang gliding and aerobatic events. Important and successful lobbying was done for FAI to improve its financial organization. Commissions will have a much better access to their accounts, now separate, hence will know at anytime where they stand. CIVL will test/spearhead the new organisation. Committee are exchanging extensively in our Basecamp working area…
(Our picture: Guido and Gold)
13th FAI Paragliding World Championships Local Regulations Published
THe Local Regulations for Sopot, Bulgaria, 19th FAI Paragliding World Championships are now published in the Document chapter of this website. CIVL Meeting RegistrationDear Delegates, Wednesday 13th to Sunday 17th February 2013 at: Hotel Mövenpick Maison du Sport International
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FAI Assistant Sports Manager Alessandro Ploner (ITA) and Italy Kings of the Hang Gliding Euro
The 12th FAI Hang Gliding European Championship came to a close on September 8th. On the Individual podium: Alessandro Ploner (ITA), Dan Vyhnalik (CZE) and Primoz Gricar (SLO). On the Team podium: Italy, Slovenia and Spain. All results are on the organizer's website. What’s up in early July 2012?
Two Asian Championships have been run in June. The 3rd Paragliding XC in Linzhou (China) had Japan win in the 3 categories: Overall, Female and Nation. The 1st Paragliding Accuracy in Wai-ao (Chinese Taipei) had Japan win in Overall and Female, and Indonesia in Nation. Registration is open for the 2013 World Games test event in Cali (Colombia). The World Games takes place every four years, and is the second largest international multi-discipline sports event. Of 33 non-Olympic sports participating in the 2013 event, only Paragliding Accuracy and Parachuting Canopy Piloting have been selected to represent airsports. A letter has been sent to EHPU and PMA to re-state CIVL position on the evolution of competition gliders. The Competition Structure Working Group has published an intermediary report. The CSWG hopes to get comments and suggestions from delegates and pilots. The Athletes and Ranking data base
Surf our website! As you go in the data-base, many options open: Events, Rankings, Pilots, This & That, Search and Register... Check your profile, results and others' here. Also Awards, Badges, Records... If you've been in a Cat 2 competition since 2000, you should be in there. Older results for Cat 1 are in there too.
What's up at CIVL...
(Photo Ojovolador. And the one on the Front page too.) A regular report...
Rod Fuller: 1937-2012
Seventy-five year-old Australian Rod Fuller was the first person to fly the flexible wing hang glider designed and created by John Dickenson in September 1963. The photograph of Rod flying along the Clarence River, towed by a water ski boat, in the Grafton "Daily Examiner" signalled the initial spread of hang gliding around the world. What is not generally known is that the flying partnership of Rod and John Dickenson perfected the principle of flight control of the revolutionary new wing. In the early days the pilot swinging from a single hang point for control was a completely untested technique. The length of the hang straps, the relationship of the hang point to the centre of pressure, the position for and aft of the A frame and the height of the A frame itself, were all variables whose interplay had to be tested to determine effective flight control. Rod and John between them established the principles by which control authority could be maintained safely in a flexible wing vehicle. Rod was well and truly bitten by the flying bug and went on to become well known and respected in the Australian Gliding fraternity. He became a Gliding Instructor and qualified as a Repairer and Glider Inspector. In 2011, CIVL awarded Rod its Hang Gliding Diploma. In the above picture, Rod is seen getting ready for take-off in Octoiber 1963, one month after his first flight. Of the first flight, John Dickenson told...
"Me and a few friends went to the water ski area and had four attempts to get my first full size glider off the water: We had three centre-of-gravity adjustments in the form of three ring bolts attached to the keel. I made the first attempt and it was too far forward so the kite just kept its nose down and flapped the fabric. After skiing a mile or so not being able to get it in the air, I returned to the beach and had another one of the club members try it because I was exhausted. He did just the same thing. Then another one attached the harness on the rear ring, did a jump start and went straight in the air to about 80ft, pulled the A-frame to his chest, and went straight down into the water. He was badly shaken but not hurt otherwise. So we hooked on to the middle ring and had another of our most confident skiers, Rod Fuller, do a jump start and get it out of the water. He flew it, exactly how I had suggested to him that he should, for over a mile, which was about the record for ski-kites in those days. That was one Saturday afternoon in September 1963, in the back country of northern New South Wales, and that’s one of the reasons why there was never much publicity about it. When the glider was finally developed, nobody heard about it.” The Jiao-Xi 2012 CIVL Plenary sum up
The 2012 CIVL Plenary was held in Jiao-Xi, Chinese Taipei, from February 16th to 19th. A sum up... The Competition structure working group More Articles...
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