18 Aug 2011
Following the tragic events at the FAI World Paragliding Championships in Piedrahita and the subsequent temporary suspension of Competition Class paragliders in Category 1 events, the Hang gliding & Paragliding Commission (CIVL) has announced the formation of the Paragliding Competitions Safety...
27 Aug 2011
The founder members of the CIVL Paragliding Competitions Safety Task Force have now been formally appointed and approved. Task Force chairman, Gregory Knudson, has gathered together a core group of individuals from within the paragliding community, and will be calling on additional specialists as...
28 Aug 2011
The CIVL Incident Report Form can now be completed online. The CIVL Bureau is asking NACs, competition organisers and competition pilots to complete report forms concerning recent incidents. Organisers of Cat 2 competitions are now required to confirm the number of incidents at events, and to...
17 Sep 2011
The 2012 European Hang Gliding (Class 1) Championships, to be held in Kayseri, Turkey, will now be run one week later than originally scheduled, from 26th August to 8th September 2012. CIVL Bureau agreed to the request from the organisers to change the dates of this event to avoid overlapping with...
12 Dec 2011
CIVL and the Paragliding World Cup Association (PWCA) have agreed on a continuing programme of cooperation aimed at creating a worldwide synchronised paragliding competition system. Stage one is early publication on the FAI competition calendar of all the planned PWC Cat 2-sanctioned tour events as...
19 Feb 2012
By the close of the first day of the 2012 CIVL Plenary, held in Jiaosi Town, Chinese Taipei, CIVL had unanimously agreed to release a statement confirming its intention to support a new competition class of paraglider for use in FAI Category 1 championships. With this statement, CIVL is making it...
