Comps and Events

The second competition of the 2010 Paragliding World Cup tour finished today in Japan, with only two tasks flown. France's Lucas Bernardin (Ozone) was the first-placed Open pilot, and Tomomi Masuko (JP, Gin) top female.

The winner of the 2010 Transdromoise hike and fly race through the Drome department of France was Michel Guichard, whose prize was a brand new Dudek Zako Speed mountain paraglider.

Further places are now available in the European Hang Gliding Championship (for Class 1, flexwings) which is to be held in Ager in July.

The Canadian Hang Gliding Championship 2010 takes place in Lumby, BC, from 13 - 19 June.

The Nissan Outdoor Games is back for its sixth consecutive summer. Five teams of sportspeople and filmmakers will each make a five-minute film, this time in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France. The fifth team's director's chair is still vacant - Julbo are running a competition to fill this role.

The European Paragliding Championships in Abtenau, Austria, will be the first major competition to feature ‘real-time’ live tracking

Manfred Ruhmer is the new Class 2 hang gliding world champion, following two weeks of atrocious weather at the Women's and Class 2 Hang Gliding World Championships at Tegelberg, Germany.

The FIA El Yelmo International Air film festival in Andalucia, Spain, takes place on 1 - 4 July 2010. The deadline for submissions to the film and photo contests is 18 June.

California's Susanville Municipal Airport is hosting a fly-in on 21 August 2010, featuring air displays, aircraft rides and military fly-overs.

The Asian Paragliding Championships in Nishawa, Japan, kicked off on 2 May and have seen some good flying so far