29 Sep 2014
Alexandra Grillmayer from Hungary and Dejan Valek from Serbia won the 4th FAI European Paragliding Accuracy Championship in the women's and men's categories. The competition took place in Vrsac, Serbia, from 31 August to 7 September 2014.
01 Oct 2014
CIVL has received this letter from the Mexican federation on safety in Valle de Bravo.
12 Oct 2014
To Manufacturers, Test Laboratories, Delegates and Pilots, To implement the new CIVL Competition Class (CCC) paragliders is indeed a very complex task. Unfortunately, the coming Category 1 event (World in Colombia) is only a few months after the last one (European in Serbia, flown on EN gliders...
19 Oct 2014
Agust Gudmundsonn wrote to the Delegates: "At the FAI General Conference in Pattaya, Thailand, this weekend a new FAI Executive Board was elected. The fact I was elected as FAI Executive Board member is the reason for this message to you. The new FAI Executive Board has three new members and they...
27 Oct 2014
The late Paragliding European championship was the first Category 1 event where the Conical End of Speed Section (CESS) was tested. The least that can be said is that it was not a success: imprecision of instruments, fairness issue, debatable flight strategy and more. If CESS is to remain an option...
01 Nov 2014
When writing that the implementation of Conical End of Speed Section was suspended in Category 1 events until further notice (see previous News), the Bureau meant that all Final Glide Decelerators were suspended, including Arrival Altitude Time Bonus (see GAP 2014 point 5.6). The altitude bonus in...