FÉDÉRATION AÉRONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE
FAI BALLOONING COMMISSION (CIA)

ANNUAL CONFERENCE - Thessaloniki, Greece, March 2000

Appendix 2

CIA Jury Board Meeting, March 1-2, 2000
Report on meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece

Present: Hans Åkerstedt, Masashi Kakuda, Les Purfield, Alex Nagorski and Jean Claude Weber

Some remaining business carried over for action during year 2000. Included below.

2.    RECURRENT TRAINING

3.     JURY List 2000 ---- Attachment 1 of Plenary Minutes

New Entry level: Tom-Dragan Miklousic, Croatia and Anita Noguera, Spain.
                               Recommended to CIA Plenary. (Motion 1).

Upgrading: Mary Anne Stevens, Canada to Intermediate Level.
                                Recommended to CIA Plenary. (Motion 1).

BX qualification:   Anita Noguera, Spain and Mary Anne Stevens, Canada.
                                Recommended to CIA Plenary. (Motion 1).

                                Helmut Kocar, Austria added. Approved 1997 but by mistake not entered on the list.

Resignations         Karl Stefan, USA after the plenary meeting asked to be removed. Thanks for many years of work.

Event Name and Place	Type	Date	President
Cup of Prominent Russian Aeronauts, Velikie Luki, Russia	Premier Sporting 22 competitors, 14 tasks	June 5-14 no Complaints, no Protests	Hans Åkerstedt
7th Coupe D’Europe/10th Ladies World Cup Mainfonds-Aubeville (Charente), France	1st Category	July 29 - Aug 1 No Complaints, no Protests	Tom Donnelly
Pre-European Championship Larochette, Luxembourg Recommendation for AX MER Rule 9.8	International 19 competitors, 14 tasks	July 29-Aug 1 1 Complaint, 1 Protest	Risto Jalava
1999 World Honda GP/Mobilux Trophy Bourscheid, Luxembourg No observers. Recommendations for markers, scoring area size and communication.	1st Category 31 competitors, 11 tasks	August 4-8 3 Complaints, no Protests	Jacques Soukup
14th World HAB Championship Bad Waltersdorf, Austria	1st Category	Aug 28-Sep 5 No complaints, no Protests	Masashi Kakuda
8th Akwavit Balloon Cup Leszno, Poland	Premier Sporting 39 competitors, 11 tasks	Sep 15-19 no complaints, no Protests	Brita Petersen
43rd Coupe Gordon Bennett Albuquerque, USA	1st Category 20 competitors	Sep 30-Oct 9 1 Complaint, 1 Protest	Les Purfield
1999 Motegi HAB Int. Championship Motegi, Japan Recommendations regarding rules 8.6, 11.2.3 and 12.17.1	1st Category 33 competitors, 14 tasks	Oct 30-Nov 3 2 Complaints, 1 Protest	Tom Sheppard

Recommendations sent on to rules subcommittee for action. Report received from AX MER WG about actions taken.

Jury President Reports from Gordon Bennett and Motegi HAB Int. Championship will be published on the web site

Summary of reports and protests will be published in the Jury Newsletter.

Will be published during spring 2000.

6. JURY HANDBOOK

Updating will be completed during 2000. Minor changes to contents already decided 1998-1999. Brought to standard CIA format.

Published on the web during 1998-1999. Additions March 2000. New cases from events 1999 to be added during year 2000. Printed version will be distributed during the year.

Composition of Juries for AX, BX and AA events. Decided to recommend for WAG Cup 2001 a jury consisting of jurors suitable to be chairmen of the three juries for WAG 2001. Discussed a proposal to reduce the total number of jurors for 2001 by appointing the same jurors to more than one function. Decided to reject the proposal. The three events are flown from different locations. Each jury need to be available at all times. In case there are protests in each event, the handling time will be too long and may delay publication of final results.

Each event organiser had nominated 6 jurors. However in many cases the same names were nominated to several events. Especially September has many events at almost the same dates. Together with other restrictions this made jury selection difficult.

The Jury Board decided to work actively in the future to ensure a wider selection of jurors.

Jury Board recommendations for 2000 event juries according to Attachment 5 of Plenary Minutes (Motion 2).

In some events the scoring software has produced result sheets that have not followed the required standard and format. The Jury Board decided to:

Recommended to the CIA Plenary. (Motion 3):

That after final recommendation regarding wording by Statutes & Sporting Code WG through Rules Subcommittee, the following paragraph be added to the appropriate chapter of the Sporting Code, Section 1 (chapters 5 and 7). The new text to be in effect from January 1^st, 2003.

Scoring software for a CIA Sanctioned Event shall be approved by CIA at the latest 3 months before the start of the event.

Note: The CIA approval may be by "Benchmark test" performed by appropriate Working Group or Subcommittee. It is still the duty of the event jury to verify the validity of the scoring.

The Jury Board studied the requirements regarding ballooning/piloting experience for CIA jurors. These requirements are loosely defined and do not describe past practice. In many cases comprehensive ballooning experience has been accepted as a substitute for actual piloting experience. It is not clearly expressed if piloting experience refers to Pilot-in-Command experience.

The Jury board therefore decided to recommend to the CIA plenary 2000 that these requirements are changed.

 

The Jury Board recommended the following changes to the Jury Handbook, Appendix C, 1-3. (Motion 4).

Entry Level Juror: - Delete: - Must have some piloting experience in aerostats

Senior Level Juror: - Add: - Must have Pilot-in-Command experience in aerostats

The penalties for airspace violations in AX MER are not same as in GS 5.2.2.3. The GS rules may not be applicable to Aerostatic events. The rules in the MER also use airspace restriction definitions for cases where Air Law is not an issue.

Decided to recommend that the AX Working Group review all rules wholly or partly taken from the Sporting Codes, General Section and Section 1 to the AX MER and study and recommend updates to the CIA plenary meeting 2001.

There are no detailed rules in the Section 1 for second category and national events except for CIA PREMIER FIESTA MEETINGS. If requested, the CIA, in co-operation with the balloon federation and the NAC concerned, will interpret and advice how to apply FAI rules for such events.

The AX MER WG had suggested that some rules regarding Event Jury selection and requirements be deleted from the AX MER. The Jury Board agreed to some of the suggestions where the rules were of little value for competitors by the time they receive the Event rules.

The Jury Board recommend that the AX Working Group review all rules wholly or partly taken from the Sporting Codes, General Section and Section 1 to the AX MER and study and recommend updates to the CIA plenary meeting 2001.

In two cases jury members appointed by the 1999 CIA Plenary became unavailable. Replacement jurors were appointed by the CIA Bureau.

In another case there was insufficient communication between Event organiser and the Jury Board. The communication procedures will be upgraded.

Decided to recommend the following composition

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

Appendix 1, Event juries 2000
Appendix 2, List of CIA approved jurors 2000

26 March, 2000
Hans Åkerstedt
Jury Board Chairman

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