http://www.fai.org/downloads/civl/CIVL_2015_Bureau_NOV_Minutes



Left to right: Stéphane Malbos, Igor Erzen, Jamie Shelden, Goran Dimikovski, Adrian Thomas and Zeljko Ovuka.

— 2017 Brazil World Class 1 and Women. Bureau reaffirmed that both championships
although organized simultaneously must remain distinct, with different tasks
including take off and start time. For the practice event, the organiser is left
free to decide if he wants for women a separate competition or not.

— GAP / FS discrepancies to be fixed.

— Sport Class development strategy: concentrate in organising a few Cat 2
competitions with new format. Then and only then think about selection criteria
and equipment in Cat 1 events.

— Gliders control: the multiyear sprogs campaign has been successful. It is not
felt that we need to go any further in gliders control. Sprog setting will be
checked randomly by the steward in the coming Euro.

— Accepted flight instruments. We are waiting for a proposal from the hang
gliding committee. Such a proposal is encouraged and should be extended to the
PG Committee.

— The Software Working Group is de facto non existent. Joërg Ewald is fixing
urgent problems as they come along on a volunteer base. A project including
Flytech is stalled and needs reassessing. The Bureau is to contact Flytech again
and is ready to assign a budget to a new project.

— Remote jurors will not be used anymore as they are in conflict with current
FAI rules that request physical presence of jurors when dealing with a protest.

— Bureau discussed what seems to be sometimes the abuse of power from some NACs
that use their exclusive right to issue sporting license to blackmail or
pressure morally and financially competition organisers and/or pilots. The whole
structure of FAI is organized in such way that it will be very difficult to
bring any relief to occasional very painful situations. Still, the Bureau will
be working on it.

Decided to postpone until further notice the implementation of the new GAP rule
requesting to switch distance measurements from FAI sphere to WGS84 ellipsoid.