The proposed Formation Skydiving dive pools for the year 2002 have now been published
on the FAI web site, together with some information on the subject prepared by Pal
Bergan, Chairman of the IPC Formation Skydiving Committee.

This update corrects pilots scores and team placings for the Paragliding
rankings.
There are no changes to Hang Gliding, Class 2, PG Accuracy or speed gliding.

PARAGLIDING

The paragliding rankings see the addition of the Mun Gyeong Open. The
Osttirol Open PG 2000 (Pre PWC) was deleted. The Carpatian Cup was
cancelled.

The top 5 places remain the same with Steve Cox (SUI) leading, Achim Joos
(GER) 2nd, Christian Tamegger (AUT) 3rd, Kaspar Henny (SUI) 4th. 5th equal
are Hans Bollinger (SUI) and Tsuyoshi Tsuji (JAP) who moves up 2 places.
Jean-Marc Caron (FRA) and Martin Brunn (AUT) move up a place to be equal 8th
and Jimmy Pacher maintains 10th place.

Louise Crandal (DEN) keeps her in the lead of the female rankings, in 38th
place. There are currently 884 pilots.

COMPETITIONS

Forthcoming hang gliding competitions that qualify for WPRS points are:
Category 2: Australian Open; Bogong Cup; Australian Nationals; Venezuelan
Open; South African National Championships; Flytec Championships (USA);
Millau Classic.
Category 1: Euro HG Champs, Slovenia.

Forthcoming paragliding competitions that qualify for WPRS points are:
Category 2: Canungra Cup, Australia; Ruitoque Open; Bogong Cup: All Africa
Championships: Australian Nationals; Australian Open; Manilla Open; Flytec
Championships (USA); PG pre-World Cup, Portugal;
Category 1: Euro PG Champs, Slovenia;

Forthcoming Class 2 competitions that qualify for WPRS points are:
Millau Classic, Euro Champs Slovenia, Class 2 Worlds, USA.

Details of these competitions can be found on the CIVL web page:
http://events.fai.org/hgpg/civl-calendar.asp

Any queries/questions regarding the World Pilot Ranking Scheme should be
sent to Paula Bowyer, e-mail paula@fai.org.

Information and an application form for CIVL category 2 sanctioning are
available on the CIVL website http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/ or from Paula
Bowyer.

COUNTRY RANKINGS

There are some changes in the paragliding country rankings. Switzerland
still leads France (2nd) and Austria (3rd).
Germany moves up a place to 4th, swapping places with Japan (5th). Denmark
and Great Britain stay in 6th and 7th place, Slovakia and South Africa
remain in 8th and 9th, but Korea leaps from 17th to10th. Netherlands has
also made a big gain, from 41st to 32nd.

Full details of the country rankings (PG and HG) can be found on the World
Pilot Ranking System website. Pilots should check that their personal record
shows the correct nationality, particularly as there are a number of hang
glider and paraglider pilots of unknown nationality.

All amendments should be e-mailed to Paula Bowyer (paula@fai.org) Full
details of the rankings can be found on the FAI/CIVL website at
http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/rankings/