In case you weren't aware of this, hang gliding is dangerous.

If you've been following the Oz Report reports on the 2014 East Coast
Championship, you'll remember the stories of the accidents there and the reasons
for them, especially the long series with Joe Schmucker and his attempt to get
back to the airport. I convinced him to write about it and after much begging
got him to publish his video.

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37786

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37685

Please remember that I was the meet director at the ECC.

Lately I've published reports from on site observers on some accidents and
difficult conditions at Annecy at the Sport Class Worlds, etc. Well, it appears
that this is making the organization very unhappy (they told pilots to stop
being so negative in social media postings). I'm not the only one publishing
reports that might not be totally flattering. You can find the reports on
Facebook and in personal blogs that I've linked to.

Even the Annecy safety director has reported:
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=131232#131232

That was before he pulled out of the Oz Report forum. Interesting.

Now I've looked back over some blog postings from on site observers and checked
to see what has happened to them and found them to be scrubbed of bad news, the
news that I quoted.

Can you say censorship?

What are these guys afraid of?

CIVL has an incident database that they ask meet directors to contribute to. I
wrote to all the pilots that had incidents at the ECC and had them fill out
reports. One wasn't able to at first as the CIVL database was down.

Will the meet organizers continue to put pressure on pilots to keep smiling?