CIA Jury Board Meeting Minutes

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CIA Jury Board
Meeting Minutes 1997

Present:

1. 1996 MINUTES

Remaining business: Event Director Report Form. Les Purfield will compile a proposal.

2. RECURRENT TRAINING

Training questions in Newsletter 1996.
The traing questionaire was used by 9 jurors. The chairman sent a reply that proved to be incorrect. Jean Claude Weber will prepare a new reply to be included in the 1997 Newsletter.

Training questions 1997.
Alex Nagorski will prepare training questions to be circulated with the 1997 Jury Newsletter. The questions will reflect changes in the Sporting Code, protests processed during the year and other interpretation difficulties.

Test 4. Senior level jurors will be required to answer questions 19-25 in Test 4. These questions were not included in the test when the present senior jurors were appointed. Those questions cover scoring and the use of scoring formulas.

3. NEW APPLICATIONS 1997

Cees van Helden, Netherlands
Gerrit Heirman, Belgium
Danny Galbraight, Australia

All were approved and recommended for entry level

4. REGRADINGS 1997

Resignations
Ernst Iselin, Switzerland has asked to have his name withdrawn from the list.
We thank him for many years of jury service

Qualifications for BX events
The following have completed the BX test 5
Senior level jurors

Intermediate level jurors

Tom Donnelly, GBR _________________________________________________________________
The following have served on BX juries and/or been Event Directors at Cat 1 BX events

Recommendation to the plenary:
All above are qualified for BX events and will be listed as such in the 1997 list of CIA approved jurors.

5. 1996 EVENT JURY REPORTS

Event	Jury President	Protests	Remarks
Belgian Championships	Don Cameron	1 protest	Ground Contact
Recommendations sent to AX working group
2nd World Match Race	Masashi Kakuda	No protests	Juror availability problem
One jury member had to resign at short notice. A replacement was appointed but also had to withdraw. Norm Pritchard, while not an approved juror but well known for his ability, was appointed to the jury with the approval of the CIA president and the Jury Board Chairman
4th Coupe d'Europe	Neil Robertson	No protests	.
9th Gas World Championship	Jean Claude Weber	1 protest	Complicated road junction, Protest rejected
10th European AX Championship	Arnost Hönig	4 protests	-Loss of control, upheld -Collission, rejected -Flight after sunset, rejected -Invalid goal, rejected -Operational difficulties, late scoring due complex
Recommendations sent to AX WG and Statutes, Bylaws and Sportion Code WG
Kapadokya Cup, Pre WAG	Jacques Soukup	No protests	Operational recommendations
40th Coupe Gordon Bennett	Jacques Soukup	No protests	Failure to communicate with ATC
1996 Saga Int Balloon Fiesta	Tom Sheppard	No protests	.

6. JURY BOARD NEWSLETTER Vol 3, 1996

The editor, Jean Claude had produced a valuable and informative document. Also thanks for the contribution from Alex Nagorski

7. JURY BOARD NEWSLETTER Vol 4, 1997

Subject	Action by
Editor	Jean Claude
Summary of 1997 CIA Jury Board Meeting	Hans
Presentation of new jurors	Hans
Internet info and the various FAI/CIA internet/E-mail adresses	Alex
New issue of Recurrent Training Paper	Alex
Review of changes in General Section and Section 1	Jean Claude
Review of changes in Model Rule system	Les
Changes to the Jury Handbook. Amended pages	Hans
Summary of Jury Reports	Hans
1997 CIA Juror list, adress changes, E-mail, fax	Hans
Coming Events with jurors appointed	Hans
Future Events and request for volunteers	Hans
Reminder of policy regarding relations to other officials and competitors	Hans
Rule interpretation	Jean Claude
Information on new Doping Control Rules	Jean Claude
Review of Competition Officials Handbook	Masashi

8. EXPERIENCE WITH NEW RULES INTRODUCED IN 1996

Jury selection. Organisers responsibility to nominate twice the number of names required had not been fully understood. The Jury Board had to send out a request for juror availability. This had an overwhelming response and a comprehensive list of available jurors could be prepared for the CIA plenary decision. The other rules surrounding the selection process imposed some limitations.

9 JURY HANDBOOK and related subjects

Updates
General Section, Statutes and Bylaws amended January 1, 1997.
Hans Åkerstedt to prepare new replacement pages with the new Jury voting rules and changes to Jury Board adress list. These pages will be distributed with the Newsletter.

Availability of latest versions of FAI/CIA documents.
Should always be available at your NAC. They are responsible for maintaining an up to date version.

Internet version of General Section found to have wrong page numbers and rule numbers in chapter 4. Internet versions are not always the latest version due to delays in the system. Be careful and check what you get. Otherwise the retrieve function works good.

Revision of test documents
New (additional) questions for Test 2, 3 and 5
The number of questions in each Test should be at least 25. Therefore 4 more questions are needed for Tests 2 and 3 and 8 more for Test 5. With only 17 questions in Test 5, an applicant will be failed if more than one question is incorrectly answered. All tests have to be checked with reference to changes to Sporting Codes and AX/BX BMR/UMR.

Test Action by

Test 2 Les

Test 3 Jean Claude

Test 5 Neil Robertson

It is worth noting that FAI has adopted the CIA Jury Handbook for all Air Sports

10. JURY CASE HISTORY HANDBOOK

Status: CIA information, training material for CIA jurors
Contents:Sample Jury Presidents reports, sample protest documentation and comments to rules.
Policy: All references to persons, events, dates, places and competition numbers will be taken out Jury members will not be identified. Comments will be restricted to rule interpretation and rule history. Jury decisions will not be challenged.
Distribution: By mail to all jurors on the list. Updates and additions when available.
Format: Standard CIA layout without amendment pages. Cases numbered with reference to chapter of main rule reference, then subnumbered in sequence as they are available.
Verification: Circulated within Jury Board and released for publication after total agreement.

When the case History Handbook has been established, the experience requirements for the different Juror levels and the Juror levels for different Event Categories will be reconsidered

Note: The CIA plenary later decided to make the material available on the Jury web site.

11. EVENT JURIES 1997 - 1998

See attached list of future event juries based on statistics from previous events and results of questionaire sent out in January. The proposed juries were all approved by the CIA plenary.

It seems that few organisers have prepared a jury list. Therefore the Jury Board had to issue recommendations based on the questionnaire, applying the rules now incorporated in the Jury Handbook and reprinted below.

Policy for recommendations to the CIA plenary

Where possible the Jury Board has followed nominations made by Event Organisers. Some have supplied six names but some have not given any names. Where the Jury Board has only received 3 names, no alternates have been recommended. However, for most of the events some alternate volunteers are available

As far as possible, the cost of travel has been considered.

APPOINTMENT

Any FAI First Category International Sporting Event in aerostation, including CIA Premier Sporting Events, shall have a NOMINATED JURY of three or five persons and in which the President and Members are appointed by the CIA. The Jury President and Jury Members must represent different NACs and the Jury President may not be of the same nationality as the organising NAC.

Organising NACs, wishing to propose the Jury President and Jury Members for their event, must propose twice the number of approved Jurors (from the CIA's list of approved Jurors and qualified for the relevant category of event) than they wish to have on the Jury (six persons for a Jury of three, ten persons for a Jury of five).

At their last meeting before the event, the CIA Jury Board shall

select from the proposed Jurors (if any) the eligible Jury President and Members, according to their qualifications, their experience, their availabilty and the number of Juries they served on during the previous two years,
retain the non-selected eligible Jurors (if any) as alternate Jury Members to serve in case of necessary replacement,
recommend the selected Jury and alternate Jury Members (if any) for appointment to the CIA Plenary. If there is no omxaniser proposal, the Jury Board shall select the Jury President and Members from the CIA Approved Jurors list.

The following appointment conditions apply to all approved Jurors:

No Juror shall be appointed by the CIA to serve on more than two events during one calendar year.
No Juror may serve on the Jury of more than one World or Continental Championship in the same FAI sub-class (all sub-classes in FAI classes A and B) in two consecutive events.
(Example: A Juror appointed for the AX World Championship in 1995 may not be appointed for the AX World Championship in 1997, but could serve on a Jury for any other sub-class World or Continental Championship in FAI classes A and B).

12. CIA JURY BOARD WEB SITE

The Jury Board web site can be reached by links from the FAI Ballooning home page at http://www.fai.org/ballooning/. It contains general Jury information and documents available for downloading. The layout of the Jury Board pages were discused. Alex Nagorski will write about the FAI/CIA internet possibilities in the Newsletter.

At present it contains:

Future additions:

13 JURY BOARD COMPOSITION 1997-98

Chairman Members

Hans Åkerstedt Masashi Kakuda

. Alex Nagorski

. Les Purfield

. Jean Claude Weber

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Test	Action by
Test 2	Les
Test 3	Jean Claude
Test 5	Neil Robertson

Chairman	Members
Hans Åkerstedt	Masashi Kakuda
.	Alex Nagorski
.	Les Purfield
.	Jean Claude Weber

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