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President's Letter to Delegates and Committee Chairmen 2008-3

Dear Delegates

IGC Report to the FAI

Our Report to the FAI General Conference is completed and has been sent to the FAI Office. A copy has been sent to you for distribution to your colleagues.

Sporting Code Section 3 Rewrite – Update #4

The latest update of the SC3 Draft has been circulated to you. My thanks for to the SC3 Committee for being able to get this draft out before the planned date.

The next deadline is Saturday the 1st of November. This is the last day for making submissions and comments on the Final Draft.

IGC-OLC League Results

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Bureau Meeting, October 2008

The IGC Bureau will meet at Wasserkuppe on the 6th and 7th October. (agenda)

World Gliding Championships in Lüsse

The World Gliding Championships in Lüsse, Germany, have finished.

The new world champions are, from left to right: Michael Sommer, Germany (Open Class), György Gulyas, Hungary (15m Class) and Olivier Darroze, France (18m Class).

The winners of the World Championships in Rieti, Italy, were: Laurent Couture, France (World Class), Matthias Sturm, Germany (Club Class) and Michael Buchthal, Germany (Standard Class).

Qualifying Grand Prix Events 2008/9

The table below lists the sites, dates and contact persons of the Qualifying Grand Prix events in 2008 and 2009. Links to the web sites will be added as they become available.

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President's Letter to Delegates and Committee Chairmen 2008-4

SAILPLANE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

COCKPIT DAMAGE REPORT

http://www.ostiv.fai.org

Dear Delegates

For more than a decade the Sailplane Development Panel, SDP, the technical body of OSTIV, has been working on improvements to sailplane cockpit design to help reduce injuries to the occupants during survivable crashes.

The OSTIV Airworthiness Standard has recently been updated to include technical requirements to improve safety and these requirements are being prepared for inclusion in EASA CS-22, the airworthiness standard for sailplane design.

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