Who is it for?
We are all concerned. The federation's awareness-raising actions are aimed specifically at:
- Managers of microlight clubs and schools
- Microlight instructors and coaches
- Microlight pilots and those around them
- Elite microlight athletes
The FederationThe institution
Protecting people in microlighting
Ensuring the well-being of everyone in microlighting, protecting members and building a culture of ethics in affiliated clubs and schools: preventing violence, and knowing who to report it to.
Prevent
Fighting violence and discrimination
Like the whole movement and all the players in French sport, the FFPLUM wishes to guarantee everyone’s well-being in sporting and recreational microlight flying, to protect members in their activity and to develop ethics across its various affiliated microlight organisations.
Approved by the Ministry of Sport and holding a public service delegation, the federation is responsible for preventing harassment and violence, and for ensuring a safe setting for those who fly, learn to fly or instruct.
Against what?
Violence can take many forms and all of them must be fought. It can involve force and threats, but also:
- Psychological harassment
- Sexual violence
- Hazing
- Discrimination
- Online violence
How?
- Raising awareness among everyone involved, with targeted information using federal tools and materials.
- Building prevention measures into the training pathway for pilots and instructors, with a presentation of the available tools and how to use them.
- Supporting and helping victims through the different steps and pathways.
Moments in microlighting that need protecting
- Two-seat instructionThe student and the instructor fly as a pair, often far from view. The instructor is a supervisor: they are subject to the federation's integrity check.
- Young pilotsBIA, youth grants, the Youth Microlight Tour (Tour ULM Jeunes): minors train and fly in affiliated clubs and schools. Their safety does not end with flight safety.
- The minor passengerTo take a minor up for a flight, the federation provides clubs and schools with a model informed parental consent form.
- Courses, gatherings, competitionsTravel, accommodation, communal life: everyone must be able to speak up about a situation that makes them uncomfortable, and know who to tell.
Managers and supervisors
The integrity check
The FFPLUM regularly carries out integrity checks on its officers and instructors. In practice, this means consulting the national automated judicial register of perpetrators of sexual and violent offences (FIJAISV) for all instructors and certain officers who are FFPLUM members.
Its purpose: to identify, among the members, those who are not allowed to act as instructors or officers, and to make sure they are removed from those roles.
Report
Making a report
Because microlighting is built on respect, solidarity and trust, every report is taken seriously and followed by appropriate action, so that everyone can fly in a safe setting.
In an emergency, do not wait for the federation to reply
Your report has been received
Your reference number:
Write it down: it lets the federation find your report if you contact it again.
An acknowledgement of receipt has just been sent to your email address (remember to check your spam folder).
Only the authorised people at the federation know about it, and the website keeps no copy of it. In immediate danger, call 17 or 112.
Who can report?
Anyone: the victim (or their legal representative if they are a minor), a witness, or a close friend or relative they have confided in. Member or not.
What kind of incidents?
All forms of violence, as long as they are connected with microlighting (club, school, training, airfield, course, gathering, competition):
- Physical and verbal
- Psychological, harassment
- Sexual
- Hazing
- Discrimination
- Online violence
How is it handled?
A report remains confidential: only authorised people know about it. Depending on the facts, the federation may take protective measures, start disciplinary proceedings and, where the facts justify it, refer the matter to the public prosecutor. Where the facts involve an instructor or an officer, the Signal-Sports unit of the Ministry responsible for Sport is informed.
Other routes
- Signal-SportsThe Ministry responsible for Sport's unit that handles reports of violence in sport.signal-sports@sports.gouv.fr
- 119 · Allô Enfance en dangerA child or teenager in danger, or at risk of being. Free, 24 hours a day.119
- 3919 · Violences Femmes InfoListening, information and guidance for women who are victims of violence and for those close to them. Free and anonymous.3919
- 116 006 · France VictimesHelp for victims: listening, information on rights, support. Free, 7 days out of 7.116 006
- The reporting portalSexual and sexist violence: chat online with a police officer or gendarme, 24 hours a day.service-public.fr/cmi
- Arrêtons les violencesThe government website: understand, protect yourself, find help near you.arretonslesviolences.gouv.fr
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