The CIVA Rules Committee and the Glider Aerobatic Committee have now finalised the package of proposals submitted by delegates, and this document is available to read here . Despite the major reduction in competitive flying this year due to international Covid-19 restrictions, no less than twenty-six proposals have been assembled from seven countries. As usual these will be formally reviewed…

The CIVA Bureau has now been advised by the Polish WGAC / WAGAC organisers that this event will also be deferred into 2021, the national and international Covid-19 restrictions in place making it effectively impossible to stage this dual-category event as expected. As revised information and the updated calendar for 2021 and the following years becomes available it will be…

As the effects of this extraordinary virus continue to spread throughout the world and impact all our lives, the CIVA Bureau has issued an advisory statement that you can read on the Approved Forward Championships page. We urge you to develop and adopt the safest health and working practices that you can, and of course look forward to seeing you…

The CIVA bureau is continuing to monitor the news and government advice from around the world, and of course would recommend that you all do the same. A central resource of valuable advice on this subject is being maintained by FAI at https://www.fai.org/news/fai-statement-coronavirus-covid-19-situation and we recommend that you use this as a reliable point of information.

CIVA Regulations Part-1 (power) and Part-2 (glider) are now available in the Document Store here and also on the Documents page of the FAI / CIVA website. As usual Matthieu Roulet and Manfred Echter have been the busy authors, and both documents embody all the updates and changes that were voted through at the Duxford plenary conference last November. If…

Following discussions between CIVA bureau members earlier this year, we are pleased to announce that Ringo Massa has been awarded an FAI Air Sport medal for his outstanding development work with the aerobatic sequence design software OpenAero, universally used now to create sequences in every category. Based originally on the OLAN 'One Letter Aerobatic Notation' project launched by Michael Golan many…