Welcome to the German Hanggliding and Paragliding Federation (DHV)

The DHV and EAPR testing centres recognised by the German Civil Aviation Authorities (LBA) have together agreed to now test only according to the new LTF 2009 airworthiness requirements for hang- and paragliders. The new LTF 2009 was released and publicised on 17.12.2009 but is not legally binding for... more ...

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 a... more ...

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 classes... more ...

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... more ...

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 spiral... more ...

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 success... more ...

“Thermal Flying  for Paraglider and Hang Glider Pilots” is the up to date, extended English version of the “ Thermikbuch” by Burkhard Martens. Within the last 2 years the German version has been sold over 7000 times. It is one of the most successful books for paragliders and hang glider pilots.... more ...

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 March, the... more ...