Continental Records for Hang Gliders & Paragliders

[Laura Nelson]

Time for African Continental Records?

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Dear Delegates,

Following the decision of the 2009 CIVL Plenary it became possible from 1st
May 2009 to set FAI Continental Records in both hang gliding and
paragliding. Since that date there have been 6 FAI World Records homologated which also appear to meet all the requirements for Continental Records which are set out in Section 7D of the FAI Sporting Code. However only one nation (UK) has also claimed the world record performance of its pilot as a European Continental Record and that is the only one that appears on the FAI website at http://records.fai.org/data?c=10 for any continent.

 The remaining 5 homologated World Records which have not also been claimed as Continental Records are:

Possible South American Continental Records:

Paragliders, Feminine, Straight distance of 324.7 km on 14.11.2009, Quixada,
CE (Brazil). Pilot : Kamira PEREIRA RODRIGUES (Brazil)

Paragliders, Feminine, Straight distance to a declared goal of 285.3 km on
14.11.2009, Quixada, CE (Brazil) - Castelo Do Piaui, PI (Brazil). Pilot :
Kamira PEREIRA RODRIGUES (Brazil)

Paragliders, Feminine, Distance using up to 3 turn points of 131.5 km on
10.11.2009, Quixada, CE (Brazil). Pilot : Kamira PEREIRA RODRIGUES (Brazil)

 Possible North American Continental Record:

Hang gliders, General, Speed over a triangular course of 100 km of 49.8 km/h
on 27.07.2009, Zapata, TX (USA). Pilot : Dustin MARTIN (USA)

 Possible European Continental Record:

Paragliders, Feminine, Out-and-return distance of 164.6 km on 10.11.2009,
Sorica (Slovenia) - Piombada (Italy). Pilot : Nicole FEDELE (Italy)

I urge the Delegates of the nations concerned to ensure that the Records
Administrator or other appropriate official in their NAC does not delay
further in sending an email to rec...@fai.org to also claim these World
Records as records for their continent. World record performances may be
exceeded somewhere else in the world eventually and I hope you agree that it
would be nice if the current magnificent flight performances could remain as
records for your continent as a mark of achievement and to inspire other
pilots in your continent to fly even further or faster.

Of course it will also be nice to see NACs submitting Continental Record
claims for flights that are the best performance in their continent even
though they are not the best in the world - that was the aim of introducing
these record categories.

Kind regards

John Aldridge
CIVL Vice President



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