http://www.fai.org/civl-news/42839-whats-up-at-the-2017-salzburg-plenary

The Bureau members and Committee Chairs were elected for a two
years term:

President: Stephane Malbos

Vice-President: Goran Dimikowski, Igor Erzen, Zeljko Ovuka, Jamie Shelden

Secretary: Mitch Shipley

Financial Secretary: Andrew Cawley

Hang-Gliding Committee: Jamie Shelden

The new Bureau then appointed:

Safety Officer: Mitch Shipley

Records and Badges Officer: Igor Erzen

Jury and Stewards Officer: Jamie Shelden

Mitch is in charge of safety for the USHPA and does the detailed
safety analysis of the accidents that are reported to the USHPA. The USHPA has a
database of accidents and it is closely guarded and not shared with anyone
except when Mitch writes up a general report and then no details of specific
accidents.

The USHPA accident reporting system does not work with the CIVL accident
reporting system. Meet organizers are required by the USHPA and by CIVL to write
up any reports of incidents during their sanctioned meets. In that past we have
done the reports for the USHPA but not for CIVL because frankly one report is
enough. If the USHPA and CIVL can't get it together to share one report we are
not going to go to the extra trouble of writing two reports. The USHPA report is
an on-line form. Otherwise we would just copy it for CIVL.

So it will be interesting to see how Mitch coordinates between the USHPA and
CIVL re accident reports.

Our competitions this year are not USHPA nor CIVL sanctioned. They are both
fully subscribed.