I respond to Flip:


In this case I am just acting as the editor of the Oz Report (not as the
Worlds meet director) and I am just reporting what I have been told by the
organizer of the Flytec Worlds Championships. I hope that you can see the
difference. :-)


A couple of questions for you, if you please.


Our NAC I believe is the NAA, correct?


If the NAA is not a party to the competition, this is not an issue, correct?
That is if the Flytec World Championships isn't sanctioned by the USHPA/NAA,
then this isn't an issue correct?


Is it the phrase "World Championships" as a whole that is the issue, or are
there other phrases that are restricted, for example, "Worlds" or "World Class
Meet" or something else.


Thanks for your help.


BTW, again, I am not publicizing this (just reporting), and I am doing it in my
position as editor of the Oz Report, not as Worlds meet director.


After some thought I sent off another response:


Flip, you wrote earlier:


As a member of the organisational team for the 2007 World
Hang Gliding Championship and therefore a representative of your NAC I hope you
will understand that it is inappropriate for you to publicise an event in such a
way.


And this got me thinking.


It is apparently the case the you and perhaps other CIVL officials are confused
about my role or roles. Just to be clear, I have a day job.


That day job is editor, publisher and writer for the Oz Report. It is a position
that I have held for ten years. This is how I earn a living.


In addition to my day job, I have avocations, and positions which while they
sometimes pay are not my real day job. (BTW, is "day job" American slang, and
not understood in Europe?)


These avocations are in a similar area of interest to my day job, hang gliding.
This is possibly where the confusion begins.


Apparently (according to the email I received from USHPA President Lisa Tate on
March 21, 2006) you and/or others believe that what I do in my work for the Oz
Report damages the USHPA relations with CIVL. That is it was not possible for
the leaders of CIVL and the president of the USHPA to see the difference between
my role as the USHPA Competition Committee Chairman, and my role at the Oz
Report. Perhaps I should have made it clearer to all of your earlier (but I
doubt that that would have helped much).


Now let's be clear, in my job at the Oz Report it is incumbent on me to produce
hard hitting factual articles about our "leaders," CIVL and the USHPA, included
in that. I have done this almost since the beginning of the Oz Report and I
continue to this day doing so. That's a big part of my day job, the job that
provides me with an income.


On the side I have taken on the task of USHPA competition committee chairman
(although no longer), meet director for the 2006 US Paragliding Nationals, 2007
Worlds meet director, meteorologist for numerous US meets, task committee
member, hang glider competition pilot, etc. These are my non day job roles.
There should be no confusion between my day job and these other roles.


Now, I have nothing to do with the organizing of the Flytec World Championships.
If you want to talk about the Championships with the meet organizer you should
do that. Don't come to me with your complaints about them.


I have kept my various roles separate. For example, I have not shared with my
readers at the Oz Report the contents of the many emails that have gone back and
forth between myself in my role at CIVL liaison (hey, there's another non day
job role) for the 2007 Worlds meet organizer, David Glover, and the various CIVL
and USHPA officials. I have not even written about these issues.


In my recent articles about CIVL, where did the news come from? The CIVL Bureau
minutes. A publicly available record published on your (CIVL's) web site.


I would very much appreciate it if you, and other CIVL (and USHPA) officials,
would quit conflating my roles. You have not done so as per your quote above. As
the CIVL liaison person for the 2007 World Championships I have nothing
what-so-ever to do with the 2007 Flytec World Championships. So please do not
threaten me in that role (as you have done above).


Thanks for your prompt consideration regarding this matter.