Sunrise over Lake Geneva ...

@ the civl Plenary in Lausanne...

The proposal for Competition Class has been amended during the SubCommittee discussions over the past 2 days.

Amendment 2Competition Class Regulation (Annex 19b) Is added:

1.4 Test Flights
A video is to be produced and made available to CIVL. The following manœuvres must be demonstrated. The reaction of the glider must be within EN-D-norm, but pilot input is allowed.
- Spiral dive
- Symmetric front collapse
- Exiting deep stall (parachutal stall)
- Recovery from a full stall
- Asymmetric collapse (not like EN-D: Only 50% of the trailing edge / 45°)
- Change of course after collapse
- Quick height descent possibility in straight flight

Amendment 3PG-SC addition to its recommendations (Annex 19a)

- CIVL will set up a working group in order to develop and implement through EN WG6, a new EN class standard that merges the PG SC technical limitations with new and appropriate test procedures to create a new competition paraglider class.

- To bring stability to the sport, no modification to S7b 12.1 and 12.1.1 will be done until the 2015 CIVL Plenary.


These proposals require a 2/3 majority vote to pass which with the current Delegate / proxy list means 22 votes of the 33 present.

More later ...