Competition
Wanted: top pilots for world air games test events - pilot selection underway
Submitted by GoAdmin on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 05:41.Pilot selection for the test events of the World Air Games, the most prestigious and extensive aerial contest in the world, is now underway. If you believe you are a contender and you meet the qualification criteria, then contact us straight away – especially if you have experience of Hang Gliding Speed Gliding and Hang Gliding Aerobatics. See below for details.
Sailplane competition flying
Submitted by Davis Straub on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 20:44.Sailplane competition flying -
William Jacques <<email>> writes: Check out this guy's instructions (especially the one labeled "Crater Lake Flight". Seems to me to be good stuff re soaring strategy.
Confidence keeps you up
Submitted by Derreck Turner on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 08:52.As you have recently posted on the Oz Report, I pulled off a very fortunate 5th place finish
in the recent Santa Cruz Flats competition. So was it glider performance?
The first day was my 2nd flight on this brand new out of the box glider with no special comp tuning. My only adjustment was to turn down the tip-wands a notch So why did i do so unexpectedly good?
Go faster
Submitted by Davis Straub on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 08:50.Big Spring Internationals
Submitted by David Glover on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 09:58.Eight full days of flying. No drop days for scoring - gets too weired. Practice day the 1st at the airport. Prize money on the Spot Landing Contest. Big Spring has superb flying conditions and this year with an eight day meet we'll be able to get in more flying.
Sport and Single Surface competitions in addition to the Open Class. Flex Wing, Sport Class, Rigid and Swift Classes.
All clear for 1st Pan-American Paragliding Championship
Submitted by GoAdmin on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 12:59.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!
CIVL Bureau Decision
Submitted by GoAdmin on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 13:23.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.
Pilot rankings – Photo opportunity!
Submitted by GoAdmin on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 01:54.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
World Air Games 2009
Submitted by GoAdmin on Thu, 06/14/2007 - 01:00.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
