A new flight site for AS Icare in Vierville

Paragliding and hang gliding practitioners had a new flight location at the top of the cliffs of Vierville. AS Icare, in charge of the animation of the site, had just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary and brought together 178 pilot members. Its president, Jacques Legros, and its honorary president, Jean-Claude Labiche, appeared in the photograph of the new runway. The association recalled that its first president had begun to fly from the Colline aux Oiseaux in Caen.

After an initiation provided by specialized schools, the six instructors of Icarus offered a theoretical and practical improvement. In addition to Clécy, members frequented Bessin sites in Commes, Tracy and Vierville. They were already coming to Vierville in the 1980s, but the installation of a barrier along the cliff had then made takeoff difficult.

The municipality had acquired land to develop wind-related activities. A development, financed with the community of communes of Trévières and the European Leader + program, had been lawned by students of the vocational high school of Vire. Information panels and a remotely searchable weather beacon were to complete the site.

The association considered the place interesting, without an air trap according to its appreciation, to welcome local pilots or pilots from elsewhere. For 2006, it planned a week of development for women and air baptisms adapted for people with physical disabilities. Another school, Elementair, was to settle permanently in the region. The top of the cliff was presented as 25 meters high.

The access indicated followed the road to the L'Omaha campsite, then the path that runs along it. The contact details published at the time were: 135 rue de Bayeux, 14000 Caen; 06 71 37 41 79; president.asicare@free.fr.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/Photos2008/2005-Icare4nov2005.jpg