Agenda of Bureau Meeting 2008_2

IGC Bureau meeting 2008/2

Wasserkuppe 6th and 7th October 2008

Agenda v1.0

1. FAI matters

1.1 Initial feedback from FAI General Conference in Aosta, Italy
1.2 Report from CASI meeting in Aosta, Italy
1.3 Coordination of Media and TV rights issues
1.3 Status on the ATMOS project
1.4 Status of CANS Commission
1.4.1 Standard for data communication

2. Championship Management

2.1 Reports, feed-back and actions from 2008 championships
2.1.1 Chief stewards report, WGC 2008 Rieti
2.1.2 Chief stewards report, WGC 2008 Luesse

2.2 Future championships

2.2.1 6th Junior WGC, Räyskälä, 2009
2.2.2 5th Women’s WGC, Szeged, 2009
2.2.3 15th EGC Nitra (flapped classes), 2009
2.2.4 15th EGC Pugachevka, Orel (non-flapped classes and 2-seater), 2009
2.2.5 31st WGC Prievidza (non-flapped classes), 2010
2.2.6 31st WGC Szeged (flapped classes), 2010
2.2.7 6th Women’s WGC, Arboga
2.2.8 7th Juniors WGC, Mushbach

2.3 2009 World Air Games

2.3.1 Feed-back from test-event
2.3.2 Status of preparations
2.3.3 Selection of IGC pilots to be invited to the event

2.4 Bids received for future Championships
2.5 Review Steward and Jury List
2.6 Stewards and Jury members for 2009 and 2010 competitions
2.7 Updated roles for Stewards and Jurors
2.8 Update Draft of Organiser Handbook and Competition Handbook
2.9 Management process for IGC trophies
2.10 Report from Scoring Committee

3 Sailplane Grand Prix

3.1 Report from 2008-2009 Qualifying Grand Prix
(Torino, Italy – St. Auban, France – Lasham, UK – Nitra, Slovak Republic)
3.2 Remaining 2008-2009 Qualifying Grand Prix
(Narromine, Australia – Santiago, Chile – Zar, Polan – Feldkirchen, Austria
3.3 Business Plan for Grand Prix Support including Grand Prix internet rights
3.4 Proposals for 2009 World Grand Prix Final
3.5 Grand prix logo

4. Sporting Code

4.1 General rewrite of Sporting Code Section 3, General Part
4.2 Sporting Code Section 3, Annex A
4.2.1 15th September DRAFT to be reviewed by Bureau including:
4.2.1.1 World Champion entry status to be reviewed
4.2.1.2 Entry of 2-seaters in the Club Class to be reviewed
4.2.1.3 Proposals from Germany to be reviewed
4.2.1.4 Proposal from UK to be reviewed

5. Ranking List

5.1 Report from the Annex D group
5.2 Updates to Annex D
5.3 Protocols for pilot-based sanction fee for the Ranking List
5.4 Status on webmaster support for joint IGC and Ranking List.

6. IGC strategy

6.1 Update of improvement actions
6.2 Finance
6.3 IGCs strategy for the future
6.4 Develop proposal for annual event like the Centenary Gliding Weeks.
6.5 Worldwide survey on gliding accidents data

7. Working Group Reports

7.1 Low-cost Working Group
7.2 Country Development Group
7.3 Continental Records Group
7.4 Scoring Software Group

8. OSTIV

8.1 Status on cooperation between OSTIV and IGC
8.2 Maintenance of the IGC Handicap List
8.3 Crash protection of cockpits

9. Plenum 2009 organisation

9.1 Proposals from the Bureau
9.2 Bureau meeting, venue, issues, guest speakers
9.3 Awards
9.4 Elections
9.5 Deadlines
9.6 Accommodation, Bureau members