03 Apr 2007
During the past month, the following decisions have been taken by the Bureau, on behalf of CIVL: 1. The CIVL Bureau agreed that Wayne Sayer will be a trainee CIVL steward at European HG test event in Greifenburg in June, incurring no costs to CIVL nor to the event organisers. 2. It has been pointed...
11 Apr 2007
Following the recent announcement that France has been awarded the FAI World Hang Gliding Championships in 2009, the Organiser Agreement was signed on 7 April on the Montagne de Chabre at a veritable Presidential Summit! The photo shows: front row: president of CIVL, Flip Koetsier, president of...
02 May 2007
The following decision has been taken by the Bureau, on behalf of CIVL: During the process of implementing the changes to Section 7 which were agreed as Item 20 at the 2007 Plenary Meeting, it was found that important messages could be lost from Sections 7A and 7B. For example: "The purpose of the...
14 Jun 2007
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...
08 Aug 2007
In July the sad news about the loss of Angelo Crapanzano reached us. The world will miss this very special and great man. Angelo meant much to the hang gliding world. In addition to designing and producing emergency parachutes through his company Metamorfosi, Angelo was one of the inventors of the...
26 Oct 2007
Highlights from this year’s Bureau Meeting in October, in Iceland include: • Agreement that Italy will hold the Women’s World Hang Gliding class 1, World Hang Gliding Class 5 and possibly Class 2 Championships combined in July 2008. • Agreement that CIVL will run a trial World Online XC Competition...
