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The minutes of the IGC Buteau meeting held on September 10 and 11 in Cambridge are now available. Please follow the links below for the

• Agenda and
• Minutes.

Cambridge 10-11 September
St. Catherine’s College

Agenda v1.1

Link to St. Catherine’s College for directions: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/help/maps/index.html

Meeting will start Sunday 10 September at 10:00 and end Monday 16:00.
Working Papers (WPs) will be circulated not later than 10 days before the meeting. Appendix B to this Agenda provides an overview of the papers for the meeting.

Paris 10-12 October

Participants:

Bob Henderson, president
Eric Mozer, 1st vice-president
Vladimir Foltin, vice-president
Axel Reich, vice-president (Tuesday)
Brian Spreckley, vice-president
Roland Stuck, vice-president
Peter Eriksen, secretary (Monday)
Tor Johannessen, president of honour (Monday)

Apologies:
Arild Solbakken, vice-president

Working session 1, IGC Management and Structure

1.1 Presidents report on FAI activities including preparation for the 98th FAI Annual Conference, CASI meeting and Regional and World Air Games.

Tor Johannessen was nominated the accredited IGC representative in the Air Sports General Commission (CASI) meeting in Paris 11 October 2005.

The discussion about the classification electrical aircraft agreed that aircraft could compete on Championships and achieve records as long as they complied with the Sporting Code.

Changes to Sporting Code Section3 Gliding, General Section and Annex C, Official Observer and Pilot Guide

Mr Ross Macintyre presented the proposed changes.

• Diamond award (SC3, GS, Para 2.1.3) add at the end "NACs should maintain a register of these badges and on notification by the NAC, FAI will enter the names of pilots attaining the 3 diamonds award in an international register"
• Badges and Diplomas for flights of 750 kilometres and more (SC3, GS, Para 2.1.4) change to read: "These are a family of badges that are achieved on completing a distance flight of 750 kilometres or more, in increments of 250 kilometres (ie. 750 km, 1000 km, 1250 km, 1500 km, etc.). One badge is awarded per flight for the incremental distance immediately less than the distance flown. NACs should maintain a register of these badges and on notification by the NAC, FAI will award a special Diploma for flights of 1000 km and more."
• This amendment is an optional extra following on from the above, the current illustration would still be valid, but altering as suggested below would give a picture of the new 750km badge in 2.2. The change required would be to simply place "750" on the badge illustration in place of the "1000" that currently shows.

The changes proposed by Mr. Macintyre were all unanimously approved and will enter into force from 31 October 2005

• Two proposals were brought forward by the Netherlands to remove the requirement that turn points should be separated by at least 10 kilometres. The Dutch delegate Mr. Robin Maarschalkerweerd presented the proposal and the argumentation.
  

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