Latest News, Bulletins & Updates
John Gaillard
I am very sorry to tell you that on Sunday 7th August our friend and colleague John Gaillard passed away peacefully at home. John had been strongly involved in the aerobatic sports movement in South Africa for a great many years, where his passing will be deeply mourned. He was also currently a CIVA Vice President, had previously chaired our…
WAC-2022 Bulletin 2 published
The organisers of the 2022 World Aerobatic Championships at Leszno in Poland have now published Bulletin 2 for this event. The new Bulletin is now available from the WAC-2022 championship page on this website.
CIVA Proposals for 2023
The package of proposals submitted by Delegates for review at the 2022 plenary conference in Switzerland is now available in the CIVA Document Store. These proposals will be reviewed by the Rules, Judging and Glider Aerobatic Committees at their meeting in Poland on August 3rd, during which a live-stream broadcast to the CIVA News YouTube page is planned to enable…
Mid-year Free Discussion Reports
Since 2021 CIVA has held two mid-year Free Discussion sessions for delegates, these being established to provide an open environment where all participants can present and debate ad-hoc topics of general interest away from the formal structure of the agenda-driven Plenary Conferences held by CIVA toward the end of each year. As requested during the first session in May 2022…
Free Known Power and Glider master figure submissions for 2023
All NACs and aerobatic delegates are now requested to discuss the submission of new Free Known Master Figure sets with their pilots, for Program-1 use in 2023. Submission of OpenAero .seq files for the three Power categories and two Glider categories should be made to either of the dedicated email forwarding addresses established for this purpose. Please visit this page…
WIAC OK, WY52AC cancelled
WIAC The World Intermediate Aerobatic Championship is due to run at Toruń in Poland from June 3rd to 11th. The organisers website at yak52wiac2022.eu currently shows a good number of entries, and they confirm that this championship will definitely go ahead as planned. WY52AC The number of entries for the 2022 World Yak-52 Aerobatic Championships has been disappointingly low, a…
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