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Angerer Open 2008 (20.02.08)
“I’d like to give you all a warm welcome to the ‘world championships in glide angle flying’”, Dieter Kamml, chairman of the DCB Ruhpolding, said during the briefing at Führmann-Alm. This was the thirteenth time that DCB Ruhpolding had held the Angerer Open, the traditional hanggliding glide angle fl...
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Stubai-Cup 2008 - A total success - English Video is online!
(26.01.08)
Despite of critical weather conditions all over the place, like foehn storm over the Europa Bridge, the Stubai valley was once more protected from the mountains and provided favorable flying weather all day long. The legendary micro climate is well known these days and lots of people came. This was ...
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Meeting DHV / PMA / EAPR
(21.12.07)
The planned changes to the "DHV Gütesiegel" certification program for 2008 have been submitted to the civil aviation authorities (LBA) for ratification. These changes are designed to filter out particularly dynamic behaviour in paragliders rated at DHV 1 or DHV 1-2, in order to keep these class...
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DHV Gütesiegel 2008 Update
(27.10.07)
The DHV is worldwide the largest association of hang- and paraglider pilots in existence, and is most concerned that the sports are professionally represented and accepted by the greater flying community. The dedicated safety work of the DHV has lead to the acceptance of hang- and paragliding as ...
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DHV-Gütesiegel 2008
(08.10.07)
After an intensive test and analysis phase and two meetings with the manufacturers and their test pilots, the DHV has finalised the necessary changes for the new DHV Gütesiegel requirements 2008.
The main points of these changes concern recovery characteristics after collapses and during diving spi...
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Free Flight 2008
(18.09.07)
For the ninth time the world’s largest international Para-, Hang gliding and Ultra Light fair and event show takes place at Garmisch-Partenkirchen from 14. - 16. March 2008.
Free Flight 2008 – targeting producers till end customers - we would like to invite you to be part of our ongoing ...
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www.xc.dhv.de instead of OLC
(06.03.07)
The DHV has terminated the contract with “Segelflugszene gGmbH” with immediate effect. It is the positon of all participating national paragliding and hang gliding associations that “Segelflugszene gGmbH” failed to produce a functioning version of the new software OLC 2.0 in time. Since 1st Marc...
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New videos on DHV-TV (english)
(28.09.06)
German TV presented the magazine take off featuring the womens hanggliding world championships. See here!
Lufthansa Board Cinema (Magazin On Air) is featuring hang gliding world champion Corinna Schwiegershausen. (Corinna is working there as a flight attendant (steward...
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Germany´s anti hero
(07.08.06)
Scene: a typical wine-bar in the middle of the Palatinate, a region in the south-west of Germany. Leading actor: Karl Slezak, safety consultant of the DHV (German paragliding and hang-gliding federation). Other actors: the members of the "Südpfälzer Gleitschirmflieger Club", the local paragliding as...
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New DHV 2-3 class performance paragliders
(26.05.06)
Competition performance with certified safety?
Almost 10 years ago, in response to worrying accident statistics, the DHV started a campaign for flying class 1 and 1-2 paragliders. As a result, the market share of these canopies has increased ten-fold.
Stress-free and safe flying has nev...
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Airworthiness Certification: the facts about the CEN- Norm and the DHV Gütesiegel Standards
(05.03.06)
There is currently a lot of confusion over the CEN-Norm testing standard for paragliders. The facts about the tests, and the arguments for- and against it are summarised here for a better understanding of the problems associated with it.
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