Dear Hang gliding Competition Pilots,
As the 2019 competition season comes to an end, planning begins for the forthcoming 2020 events.
In 2020 we have 2 competitions which may interest pilots The panel would like to invite all pilots who would like to put themselves forward to be considered for selection for these events to do so before the 4th October 2019
1. Florida

The BHG Comps Panel would like to  congratulate the following Pilots for being selected for the British Team competing in the 2019 Class 1 World championships in Fruili. 
The team selected is as follows. 

Automatic selection 

Panel selection. 

The Competition Panel are pleased to announce that a team has now been selected for the 2018 European Championships in Macedonia. The current published team size is for 5 members. It is anticipated the number of team places will rise to 6.

The panel would like to congratulate the selected team, who are:
1. Grant Crossingham
2. Gordon Rigg
3. Dave Matthews
4. Carl Wallbank
5. Ollie Chitty

The Competition Panel are pleased to announce that a team has now been selected for the 2018 World Class 5 Championships in Macedonia. The current published team size is for 3 members. It is anticipated the number of team places may rise to 5.

The panel would like to congratulate the selected team, who are:
1. Paul Harvey
2. Tim King
3. Mike Armstrong

The panel also considered a number of reserves in the event of further team places becoming available or if a team member has to unexpectedly drop out.

Dear Hang gliding Competition Pilots,

As the 2017 competition season comes to an end, planning begins for the forthcoming 2018 events.

Krushevo

In 2018 we have the 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship, along with the 8th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 5 Championship. The dates for both championships are 8 to 21 July 2018 to be held in Krushevo, Macedonia.
The panel would like to invite all pilots who would like to put themselves forward to be considered for selection for these events to do so before the end of the weekend of the 14th/15th October 2017

We are delighted to Welcome Simon White onto the Panel for the up coming season. 
We would also like to say a big thank you to Richard Hunt and Graham Phipps for their contributions to the panel over the past year/s
Current Panel Members can be found here.
 

We now have confirmed dates for this year's British Open Series - BOS2017; details can be found on the dedicated BOS website 

The BOS is a flexible and accessible series of UK based national competitions, that includes a Rigid (class V) Class , Flexwing (Classs 1) and Club Class, for those pilots who wish to move up, but are not yet ready to commit themselves fully to national championship level. You will find pilots from this level right up to national squad level taking part in these friendly comps.

Series trophies will be awarded at the end of the Third meet.
 

To all those budding artistes out there,
Once again we are looking for a design for our National Hang-gliding competition which is being held in Monte Cucco, Italy in June.
Last year we had some excellent ideas and a lot of creativity and we're hoping that this year you'll be able to come up with even better designs.
There is no rule around how your design should look, however there are a couple of tips:

All the tick box boxes are now ticked so the competition panel are now able to announce confirmation of the 

British Nationals and Monte Cucco Open is GO!
and will be held on
Sunday June 25th - Saturday July 1st
Further details will be forthcoming soon on the dedicated Nationals Web site