For safety reasons the take off at Laragne-Chabre will be closed for the period of the Hang Gliding Worlds - 20th June to 4th July 2009, to non authorised pilots between midday and the opening of the start gate. There are several other sites in the region where pilots can fly including those at Aspres, Sederon, Colombis and St Vincent, St Genis etc. Worlds HQ staff will be happy to give details of other available sites and how to get to them.

The website for the Worlds is HERE

Cheers,
Nicky

BUT

I think the front page should not keep on changing and should be as simple as possible while still making it obvious how to get to the most used parts of the site.

Editing rights to the front page should be restricted to one or two people

We should achieve a consensus before changing it i.e. maybe we could have some hidden prototype front pages developed and tweeked and when were happy with it then freeze it at least for 1 season.

craig

The front page needs to be very much simpler with routes to the important stuff very much more obvious.

Please can you give me a list of what you consider important.

At the moment, at least on my screen with at least
two different browsers there are overlapping pictures covering up text

where please? and what browsers

We have a real problem with multiple places for information being published.

with new techs available we try different things to see what sort of response we get.
the collective site is an attempt to get to more non comp pilots. yes a lot of stuff is duplicated to see if there are advantages/disadvantages. If we don't try we don't know.

Most pilots are completely not interestefd in getting involved with how to puit stuff on a website themselves

So we are discovering

I just don't think it can ever work as a wiki that everyone is supposed to edit!

Again, if we dont try, we don't know. But, that certainly seems to be the case.

I have two big problems.

1. a lack of constructive criticism (so i thank you for you comments)
2. Content. (i dont care how i get it. but without its pretty pointless.)

Hows was the comp in italy. wanna tell us about it (not just the guys on the mail list)?

At the moment, at least on my screen with at least
two different browsers there are overlapping pictures covering up text.

We have a real problem with multiple places for information being published. Cross over between different websites. Such things as entry forms need to be in one place and one place only. One reason is the difficulty of navigating here means people are going elsewhere.

Most pilots are completely not interestefd in getting involved with how to puit stuff on a website themselves. They might send stuff to someone who's job it is to manage the website though. I just don't think it can ever work as a wiki that everyone is supposed to edit!

There have been one or two that have experienced difficulty. some from behind firewalls at there office of work, and some macs and weird stuff :-)

BUT…

I dont know what is good and what is wrong… so PLEASE, AS HAVE I REQUESTED ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION…

All you guys that have an opinion on this…

Please advise.

The previous website was superior. All that is needed is someone who can update a conventional site and that should be a job for a specific competitons panel post.

Everyone is saying this off the record so its about time the truth was stated.

This maybe something useful for you guys.

http://nxcl.collectivex.com/

See you in Àger!

Nicky
www.ager2010.com

We hope to be awarded the Europeans in 2010 but whatever happens the Open will be run from 11th - 18th July 2009 ( task days)
Competition information is on the website Àger Open

Please be patient for the next few days while I sort out any teething problems with the registration system. If you have any problems with rego please email me : nicky[at]ager2010.com

We look forward to seeing you in Àger!
Nicky

The full article

British Open Series – will again comprise 3 x 5 day events all of which will be over bank holiday weekends.

• 1st Round: Fri 1st to Tue 5th May – Long Mynd/Mid-Wales with comp HQ same as last year.
• 2nd Round: Fri 22nd to Tue 26th May – Yorkshire Dales/North Yorks with comp HQ at Green Dragon, Hardraw (same as last year).
• Final: Fri 28th Aug to Tue 1st Sep – SE Wales with comp HQ in Crickhowell (details to be finalised)

All of the above detail has yet to be confirmed with local clubs and landlords of comps HQs.

Nationals – unfortunately some information required to finalise this is not available yet but the panel have chosen dates so that pilots can book holidays; these are Sunday 19th to Saturday 25th July 2009.

Option 1 – venue Ager with our Nationals running immediately or soon after the Pre- Europeans. CIVL is still considering the Spanish bid to run the 2010 Europeans at Ager but dates for the practice event have not yet been announced, however they should be very similar to the 2010 dates (4-18 Jul).

Option 2 – the fall-back position is to go to Laragne over the same period.

Please note that arrangements for comps in other countries are always subject to agreement by the local club and the national governing body.

John

Grant Crossingham

Robin Hamilton

Carl Wallbank

Gary Wirdnam

The following first reserve is expected to be added to the above four man team once the total number of entries is confirmed based on the WPRS nation ranking on 1 Feb 2009. Until all teams with four pilots entered in the worlds have been offered a fifth place, this 5th pilot will not be scored for the team event or be eligible for a team medal.

Bruce Kavanagh

The following additional reserve pilots have been selected in priority order:

Gordon Rigg

Dave Matthews

Kathleen Rigg

Thanks to our sponsor for the event Eurocell Ltd

Results XC 1st keith matthews 41k 2nd richard hunt 16k 3rd mike cushion 14k
Spot 1st keith matthews 25points 2nd steve meadows 20 points 3rd steve biggs 15points

The Panel

Full results >>>>

Day 2 is a race from Merthyr SW to Ross on Wye with a further distance section to Castlemorton Common. Day started really dreary and unsoarable but picked up later. The pilots who were ready for the change in conditions will probably do best with the later ones struggling.