Flying at your home site? Get ready for drug testing!
http://www.ushpa.aero/documents/minutes/2009_01_Spring.pdf
From the USHPA BOD minutes:
Dennis reviews the CIVL report and highlights five of the key items discussed at the CIVL convention. Drug testing is being stepped upnot just for competitionthe testing will be expanded to recreational pilots.
There will apparently be more activity in the anti-doping camp. The FAI has been informed that they (along with twenty other sport organizations) are out of compliance. They are in danger of losing their $20,000 stipend from the Olympics committee, but more to the point, certain countries supporting the WADA drug testing will no longer allow the violating sports to be practiced in their country.
So it looks like more drug testing will take place. This testing has just become more onerous and invasive. Apparently selected individuals will have to inform the WADA officials were they can be reached one day a week for the next year. If their plans change in that year they have to inform the officials where they can be contacted. There has been a strong backlash in some professional sports to this policy, so who knows what will happen?
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