FÉDÉRATION AÉRONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE

BALLOONING COMMISSION CIA
COMMISSION D’AEROSTATION

THE PLENARY MEETING OF THE

FAI BALLOONING COMMISSION (CIA)

to take place in SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
on 5^th to 8^th March 2008

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AGENDA

1. Introductions and Welcome by the President

2. In memoriam

3. Apologies for absence

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5. Proxy votes

6. Announcements

(a) Agenda Order (IR 3.6.1)

(b) Review of Procedures (IR 3.7 & 3.8)

(d) New Business (IR 3.6.3, BL 5.6.4))

(e) Absolute Majority

(f) Voting Procedure

(g) FAI Code of Ethics http://www.fai.org/documents/otherdocs

(h) Domestic

Reference: CIA Internal Regulations ftp://www.fai.org/ballooning/documents/pc/irv2000.doc

7. Approval of 2007 minutes http://www.fai.org/ballooning/meetings/ciamin07.htm

Corrections and review of ‘Points for Action’ from 2007 Plenary Meeting Appendix 1

8. Review of Bureau actions

March 2007 to date

9. Report on the FAI Air Sports Commission Presidents’ Meetings

Report by the CIA President ftp://www.fai.org/ballooning/newsletter/pc/2007-aut.doc

10. Report on the FAI General Conference, Rhodes, Greece October 2007

a) Report by FAI Secretary General, Mr. Max Bishop http://www.fai.org/

b) CIA President’s Report on the FAI General Conference

11. Report from CASI Representative

Report: Jean-Claude Weber

NOTE : CASI Meeting Minutes are available from FAI http://www.fai.org/casi/meetings/#minutes

or CIA Secretary

12. Delegates reports

Delegates are requested to submit written reports on activities in their country,

and to restrict their verbal reports to not more than three (3) minutes.

13. Jury Board (Hans Akerstedt) Appendix 2

Jury Reports CIA Events 2008

Report and Proposals

14. Officials Subcommittee (Martine Besnainou) Appendix 3

NO AGENDA SUBMITTED
- Report and Proposals

- Competition Observer participation in sanctioned events.

15. Public and Media Relations Subcommittee (Pat Brake) Appendix 4

Report and Proposals
a) FAI Report on Public and Media Relations efforts

16. Event Development Service Appendix 5a

Report

a) Review Cancellation of 2007 Gordon Bennett Race

b) 53^rd Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Bids

c) Proposal for Women’s World Championship Appendix 5b

d) Championship Calendar Appendix 5c

17. Records Subcommittee (Don Cameron) Appendix 6

Report and Proposals

18. Safety and Education Subcommittee (Bengt Stener) Appendix 7

Report and Proposals

19. Competitor Subcommittee (Alan Blount) Appendix 8

Report and Proposals

20. Rules Subcommittee (Uwe Schneider) Appendix 9a

Report and Proposals

a) AA/AM Working Group Appendix 9b

b) AX Working Group Appendix 9c

c) BA/BX Working Group Appendix 9d

d) Scoring Working Group Appendix 9e

e) Statutes, Bylaws and Sporting Code Working Group Appendix 9f

21. World Air Games Status (JC Weber)

Report and Proposals

a) Competitor selection process for World Air Games.

22. On-Line Contest Working Group (Claude Weber) Appendix 10a

Report and proposals.
a) CIA On-Line-Competition (OLC)

b) FAI ATMOS Project Appendix 10b

c) Validity of logger tracks and competition results (paper by Risto Jalava, Sandor Hidas, David Paal)

23. New bidding and sanctioning process for Gordon Bennett events

24. Reports on and nomination of representatives to FAI Technical Commissions

(a) FAI Medico-Physiological Commission. Report: Dr David Bareford

(b) FAI Aerospace Education Commission: Bengt Stener

(d) FAI Simulated Flying. Report:

(e) Europe Air Sports Liaison Report and motion: Rudger Coucke Appendix 13

(f) CIA Representative to CASI: Jean-Claude Weber

25. Election of Subcommittee Chairpersons

Jury Board

Officials Subcommittee

Public and Media Relations Subcommittee

Records Subcommittee

Rules Subcommittee

Safety and Education Subcommittee

Event Development Service

Competitor Subcommittee

On-Line Contest Working Group

Note: the respective Subcommittees propose Subcommittee Chairmen. However, CIA delegates may

nominate other additional candidates.

26. CIA Financial Reports (Alex Nagorski)

a) CIA Administration Fund for year to 31^st December 2007 Appendix 11a

b) CIA Expenses Budget for year to 31^st December 2008 Appendix 11b

c) CIA Financial report to the FAI to 31st December 2007 Appendix 11c

d) CIA Inventory to 31^st December 2007 Appendix 11d

27. Sanctioned Events – reports and new applications http://www.fai.org/ballooning/events.asp
Reminder: The Plenary Process for each event is:

(a) approve Sanction applications presented by the Event Development Service, which includes

the Event Director, Deputy Director(s), Safety Officer and Sanction Fee;

(b) approve the Rules for Sanctioned Events presented by the Rules Subcommittee;

27.1 Reports on sanctioned events:

(a) 2008 - 18^th World Hot Air Balloon Championship, Austria

(b) 2008 - 52th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, Albuquerque, NM, USA

(d) 2009 - 16^th European Hot Air Balloon Championship, Brissac-Quincé, France

27.2 Sanction Proposals: CATEGORY ONE

(a) 2008 - World Balloon Trophy & HONDA Cup, Luxembourg

(b) 2008 - Ladies World Cup, Poland

(d) 2008 - Tochigi Hot Air Balloon International Championship, Japan

(e) 2009 - Women's European Championship, Lithuania

(f) 2009 - 53^rd Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett bids from

Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, UK, USA
(note : the Gordon Bennett vote may be moved later in the agenda depending on the agenda progress)

Event details can be found on the CIA Events Web site at: http://www.fai.org/ballooning/events.asp

27.3 Sanction Proposals: CIA SPORTING EVENT

28. Championships open for proposal

http://www.fai.org/ballooning/events.asp#open

28.1 Bids

(a) 2010 – World Hot Air Balloon Championship – India – (vote in 2008)

(b) 2010 – World Hot Air Balloon Championship – Hungary –(vote in 2008)

28.2 Intentions to Bid

a) 2011 - European Hot Air Balloon Championship - Spain - (vote in 2009)

29. Award of Montgolfier Diplomas

Nominations:

a) Montgolfier Gas - David Hempleman-Adams (GBR)

b) Montgolfier Hot Air - David Hempleman-Adams (GBR)
- Richard Jaworski (USA)

c) Montgolfier Rozier - Troy Bradley (USA)

d)      Montgolfier Contribution to the Sport - Stefan Makne (POL)
                                                                    - Mako Oiwa (JPN)
                                                                    - Albert Padelt (USA)

- Gert Scholz (AUT)

- Michael Wörner and Wolfgang Matt (GER)

30. Award of Santos Dumont Gold Airship Medal

No nominations received

31. FAI Awards

a) Nominations for FAI Air Sports Medals

No nominations received

b) Prince Alvaro De Orleans Borbon Fund for Technical Advances

No nominations received

32. CIA Hall of Fame

Report and Election of CIA members of the Selection Committee.

2008 Nominations

2008 Inductions

33. Election of CIA Officers

(a) President

(b) 1^st Vice President

(d) 3^rd Vice-President

(e) Secretary

34. Election of Subcommittee and Working Group members on recommendation of

Subcommittee Presidents

(a) Safety and Education Subcommittee

(b) Officials Subcommittee

(d) Records Subcommittee

(e) Rules Subcommittee

AX Working Group

AA & AM Working Group

BX Working Group

Statutes, Bylaws & SC Working Group

Scoring Working Group

(f) Jury Board

(g) Event Development Service (EDS)

(h) Competitor Subcommittee

World Ranking List Working Group

(i) On-Line Contest Working Group

35. Any other business

a) How to make FAI members respect their obligations and accept the consequences of their responsibilities. (2007 CIA Plenary cancellation by the UAE, 2007 Gordon Bennett cancellation by the organisers)

36. Date and Place of next meeting

(Note - 2/3 vote needed to move outside Lausanne)

Formal bids to organise future CIA Plenary Meeting must be presented at the latest at the beginning of

Plenary

SC and WG – March 4 – 5, 2009

Plenary - March 6 – 7, 2009

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