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IGC Meeting Feb. 29/March 1 2008

This is the agenda for the February/March 2008 meeting in Rome. Reports and other documents can be accessed by clicking on the links in the corresponding agenda items.

Other downloads:

  • Final version of ther agenda as PDF document.
  • ZIP file with the agenda and all documents received before 18.1.2008. Note: To enable the links to the accompanying documents to work off line, you must unzip all files into the same directory.

Late documents: At the time of publication (17.1.2008) not all reports had reached the IGC Secretary. Please check this page for later additions.

  • 18.1.2008: New item 6.3.8 added.
  • 18.1.2008: New version of proposal from Greece, item 9.2
  • 20.1.2008: Typo corrected (date of second day)
  • 4.2.2008: Typo corrected, new item 1.3, OLC report added (6.3.4)
  • 13.2.2008: Financial report added (5.1)
  • 23.2.2008: Membership development report added (6.3.8). New item after 12 (WAG).
  • 26.2.2008: New version of German bid for the 2011 FAI World Juniors' Gliding Championships (item 7.2).

Agenda for the IGC Plenary 2008

Day 1, Friday 29th February 2008

Session: Opening and Reports (Friday 09.00 – 10.45)

1. Opening (B. Henderson)

  • 1.1.a. Roll Call (M. Bishop/P. Eriksen)
  • 1.2 Administrative matters (P. Eriksen)
  • 1.3 Declaration of Conflicts of Interest

2. Minutes of previous meeting, Lausanne, March 2007 (P. Eriksen)

3. FAI Matters (M. Bishop)

4. IGC President’s report

5. Finance (D. Bradley)

6. Reports not requiring voting

Session: Reports from Specialists and Competitions (Friday 11.15 – 12.45)

  • 6.3 Specialists
    Please note that reports are made available on the IGC web-site. The Specialists will not read their reports, but will be available for questions.

  • 6.4. Past & Future Championships (E. Mozer)
    Please note that for past championships, the Jury President’s or Chief steward’s reports are available on the IGC web-site. The reports will not be presented. For future championships, general information is available through the Bulletins, only items requiring action or special attention from the Plenum will be presented.

    • 6.4.1 5th FAI Junior World Gliding Championships 2007 - Italy: stewards report
    • 6.4.2 4th FAI Women’s World Gliding Championships 2007 - France: stewards report
    • 6.4.3 14th FAI European Gliding Championships 2007 - France: stewards report
    • 6.4.4 14th FAI European Gliding Championships 2007 - Lithuania: stewards report
    • 6.4.5 30th FAI World Gliding Championships 2008 - Germany
    • 6.4.6 30th FAI World Gliding Championships 2008 - Italy
    • 6.4.7 6th FAI Junior’s World Gliding Championships 2009 – Finland
    • 6.4.8 5th FAI Women’s World Gliding Championships 2009 - Hungary
    • 6.4.9 31st FAI World Gliding Championships 2010 – Slovak Republic
    • 6.4.10 31st FAI World Gliding Championships 2010 - Hungary
    • 6.4.11 1st FAI South American Gliding Championships 2008, Argentina.

Session: Competition Officials and Bids presentation (Friday 14.00 – 15.30)

Guest speaker Prof. Dal Monte: Crash protection of glider cockpits

  • 6.5 Approval of Competition Officials (E. Mozer)
    • 6.5.1 Confirmation of Officials for competitions in 2008
      a. 2008 WGC Open, 18M, 15M, Luesse, Germany
      b. 2008 WGC Standard, Club, World-class, Rieti, Italy

    • 6.5.2 Approval of Officials for the
      a. 5th Womens WGC, Szeged, Hungary, 2009
      b. 6th FAI Junior’s WGC, Räyskälä, Finland, 2009

    • 6.5.2 Approval of Chief Steward for the
      a. 31st FAI World Gliding Championships 2010 – Slovak Republic
      b. 31st FAI World Gliding Championships 2010 - Hungary
  • 6.6 Sailplane Grand Prix (Roland Stuck)
    • 6.6.1 Report from the 2007 FAI World Sailplane Grand Prix Final
    • 6.6.2 Call for candidates Qualifying SGP 2008-9
    • 6.6.3 Call for candidates SGP Final 2009

7. Presentation of bids for future championships (max. 10 minutes each)

8. Questions on all Bid Presentations

Session: Proposals and reports requiring voting (Friday 16.00 – 18.00)

9. Reports and proposals requiring voting (B. Henderson)

10. Nominations for President

Day 2, Saturday 1st March 2008

Session: IGC Strategy (Saturday 09.00 – 10.45)

  • 1.1.b Roll Call (M. Bishop/P. Eriksen)

11. IGC Strategy

  • 11.1 Update on the IGCs strategic Plan (B. Henderson)
  • 11.2 OSTIV Sailplane Development Panel (Dr Helmut Fendt, Chairman of OSTIV SDP, introduction by Dr Loek Boermans)

Session: Votes on bids and Proposals requiring voting (Con’t) (Saturday 11.15 – 12.45)

12. Votes on Bids (E. Mozer)

  • 12.1 2011 World Gliding Championships,
    • 12.1.1 Women’s FAI World Gliding Championships
    • 12.1.2 Juniors FAI World Gliding Championships
  • 12.2 Continental Championships
    • 12.2.1 2009 FAI European Gliding Championships

- Organisation of the World Air Games 2009 in Torino, Mr. Andrea Ferrero.

9. Reports and proposals requiring voting

Session Awards and Elections (Saturday 14.00 – 16.00)

13. IGC awards

  • 13.1 Lilienthal Medal
    • Nomination by Italy
    • Nomination by Poland
    • Nomination by United Kingdom
  • 13.2 Pirat Gehriger Diploma
    • No nominations
  • 13.3 Pelagia Majewska Medal
    • Nomination by Italy
    • Nomination by Poland

14. Elections of Officers (B. Henderson/E. Mozer)

  • 14.1 President;
  • 14.2 1st Vice President
  • 14.3 Other Vice Presidents
  • 14.4 Secretary
  • 14.5 Confirmation of Committees and Committee Chairmen

15. Date and place for the 2009 IGC Plenary Meeting

16. Closure