08 Dec 2015
French paraglider Tim Alongi, 24, is the new FAI World Air Games Paragliding Aerobatics Champion. Alongi also won the silver medal in the Sychronised Paragliding Aerobatics competition, along with his partner - and solo silver medallist - Eliot Nochez, also from France. When we caught up with...
09 Dec 2015
It was a double celebration for Team France last night (December 8), when French pilots Tim Alongi and Eliot Nochez were awarded the gold and silver medals for the FAI World Air Games Solo Paragliding Aerobatics event. A crowd of more than 200 people cheered on the new champions, as they stepped up...
30 Dec 2015
The IPPI Card is now available per year. Federations that decide so can issue the Card to all its licensed pilots for a small yearly fee. Licenses are renewed every year, so IPPI level can be adjusted accordingly. The IPPI card was introduced in 1992. Since then, national associations and pilots...
16 Jan 2016
The Agenda and Annexes for the upcoming FAI Hang Gliding & Paragliding Commission (CIVL) Plenary Meeting are now online here. 2016 Plenary Lausanne (Switzerland) 20-21 February 2016 Agenda For your information, further documents will be published online when they become available. Meeting...
26 Jan 2016
2015 and 2016 have seen a number of Category 2 competitions appearing on the FAI calendar and then disappearing, sometimes just before the competition takes part, because they are ‘de-sanctioned’ on the request of the organizing NAC or by FAI (the NAC being suspended). CIVL Bureau believes that in...
03 Feb 2016
The Local Regulations of the 5th FAI European Paragliding Accuracy championship in Paluknys, Lithuania, are now published in our Documents pages.