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HG pre-Euro on the way

José Manuel (Juaki) Sánchez García, co-organizer, is proud to announce that for July 2014 the 19th FAI European Hang Gliding Championship will take part in Arangoiti - Navarra – Spain. Therefor....

Guido Gerhmann dies in a plane crash

  Guido Gerhmann, one of the most talented hang gliding pilot (he was the 1998 World champion) died in a plane crash early this month. He was 38. His friend Corinna Schwiegershausen, wrote.......

Paragliding Worlds deadline coming soon!

The entries deadline for the coming Paragliding World Championships is arriving fast! With 8 days to go we have just 85 pilots and 15 nation teams entered in total. Please hurry to submit entries!

New 2012 FAI Annual Report just out !

The FAI has released a new publication, the 2012 FAI Annual Report, designed to present the most notable achievements, developments, facts and challenges of the past year. It is meant to be a referenc....

Nicky Moss is new CIVL Competition Coordinator

  Early this year CIVL opened a position as Competition Coordinator to replace Brian Harris who held this position during 4 years (Thanks Brian, you did a great job!). We were pleasantly surp....

Interview with John Dickenson, recipient of the FAI Gold Air Medal

At the 2012 FAI Awards Ceremony held yesterday in Antalya, Turkey, John Dickenson was presented with the FAI Gold Air Medal by FAI President John Grubbström for his great contribution to the developm....

Pál Tákats (HUN): Paragliding Aerobatics Champion

At 16 years old, Pál knew that paragliding was going to be more than just the next new hobby sport for him. Dedicating his time to flying from the day he left school, he and his young and talented Hu....

Milica Bicanin (SRB) & Matjaz Feraric (SLO): PG Accuracy Champions

In 2008, and just 21 years old, Milica Bicanin from Serbia became the 1st women’s European champion in paragliding accuracy.  Flying on her home ground at Niska Banja, Serbia, Milica flew consi....

Horacio Llorens (ESP) Paragliding Aerobatics star

Winner of the solo Paragliding Aerobatics World Cup tour in 2008 and 2010, and either first or second in the FAI PG Aerobatics Ranking since 2008, Horacio Llorens is one of the stars of this young dis....

Judy Leden multiple champion and record holder

If you added up the number of miles this world champion aviatrix has covered during her thirty-year career in hang gliding and paragliding, the total would stretch several times around the equator. Wi....