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IGC Meeting March 6/7 2009

This is the agenda for the March 2009 meeting in Lausanne. Reports and other documents can be accessed by clicking on the links in the corresponding agenda items.

Other downloads:

  • version 1.1 of the agenda as PDF document (format corrected from v1.0)
  • ZIP file (8 MB) with the agenda and all documents received before 22.1.2009.

Late documents for agenda items 5 and 8.5.1b are included in this zip file. Document for item 6.5.4 added 21.02.09.

Agenda for the IGC Plenary 2009

Day 1, Friday 6th March 2009

Session: Opening and Reports (Friday 09.15 – 10.45)

1. Opening (Bob Henderson)

1.1.a. Roll Call (Max Bishop/Peter Eriksen)
1.2. Administrative matters (Peter Eriksen)
1.3. Declaration of Conflicts of Interest

2. Minutes of previous meeting, Rome, 29th February/1st March 2008 (Peter Eriksen)

3. IGC President’s report (Bob Henderson)

4. FAI Matters (Max Bishop)

4.1. Update by the Secretary General (including update from General Conference, WAG, WADA, ATMOS)
4.2. Air Sports and media, update from FAI (Jean-Marc Badan)

5. Finance (Dick Bradley)

5.1. 2008 Financial report
5.2. IGC Financial Policy
5.3. 2009 Budget and 5 year planning

6. Reports not requiring voting

6.1. OSTIV report (Loek Boermans)

Please note that reports under Agenda items 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 are made available on the IGC web-site, and will not necessarily be presented. The Committees and Specialists will be available for questions.

6.2. Standing Committees

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

6.3. Working Groups

6.4. IGC Specialists

7. Championships

7.1. Past & Future Championships (Eric 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.

  • 7.1.1. 30th FAI World Gliding Championships 2008 - Germany
  • 7.1.2. 30th FAI World Gliding Championships 2008 - Italy
  • 7.1.3. 6th FAI Junior’s World Gliding Championships 2009 – Finland
  • 7.1.4. 5th FAI Women’s World Gliding Championships 2009 – Hungary
  • 7.1.5. 15th EGC - Slovak Republic (flapped classes), 2009
  • 7.1.6. 15th EGC - Lithuania (non-flapped classes and 2-seater), 2009
  • 7.1.7. 31st FAI World Gliding Championships 2010 – Slovak Republic
  • 7.1.8. 31st FAI World Gliding Championships 2010 - Hungary
  • 7.1.9. 6th Women’s WGC - Sweden 2011
  • 7.1.10. 7th Juniors WGC - Germany 2011

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

7.2. Approval of Competition Officials (Eric Mozer)

  • 7.2.1. Approval of Officials for the
    a. 5th Womens WGC, Szeged, Hungary, 2009
    b. 6th FAI Junior’s WGC, Räyskälä, Finland, 2009
  • 7.2.2. Approval of Chief Steward for the
    a. 6th Women’s WGC, Sweden 2011
    b. 7th Juniors WGC, Germany 2011
    c. 15th European Gliding Championships, Slovak Republic
    d. 15th European Gliding Championships, Lithuania
7.3. Sailplane Grand Prix (Roland Stuck)

  • 7.3.1. Report from the 2008/9 Qualifying Grand Prix
  • 7.3.2. Report on progress of preparations for 2009 World Grand Prix Final
  • 7.3.3. Call for interest, 2010/2011 Qualifying Grand Prix
7.4. World Air Games, Turin (Brian Spreckley)
7.5. Presentation of bids for future championships (max. 10 minutes each)

  • 7.5.1. 2012 FAI World Gliding Championships
    USA (Uvalde, Texas) 15M, 18M and Open Classes + supporting letters
    Australia (Narromine, NSW) 15M, 18M and Open Classes
    Argentina (Adolfo Gonzales Chaves Airfield) World, Club and Standard Classes
7.6. Questions on all Bid Presentations

Session: Proposals and reports requiring voting (Friday 16.00 – 17.45)

Guest Speaker: Ian Oldaker will speak about the work of the OSTIV Training and Safety Panel.

8. Reports and proposals requiring voting (Bob Henderson)

8.1. Proposals from the Bureau

8.2. Report and proposal from the Continental Records WG (Hans Obermeyer)

8.3. Report and proposal from the Light-end Sailplanes WG (Francois Pin)

8.4. Report and proposal from the Sporting Code Section 3, General Section (Ross Macintyre)

8.5. Report and proposals from the Sporting Code Section 3, Annex A Committee (Göran Ax)

8.6. Proposal from the USA

Please note that this proposal was received after the deadline for proposals (30th September 2008), and will require a 2/3rds majority to be tabled.

9. Nominations for President

Day 2, Saturday 7th March 2009

Session: IGC Strategy (Saturday 09.15 – 10.45)

1.1.b. Roll Call (Max Bishop/Peter Eriksen)

10. IGC Strategy

10.1. Update on the IGCs strategic Plan (Bob Henderson)

Guest speaker: Werner Scholtz will speak about Glider Safety

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

11. Votes on Bids (Eric Mozer)

11.1. 2012 World Gliding Championships,

  • 11.1.1. 15M, 18M and Open Classes
  • 11.1.2. World, Club and Standard Classes

8. Reports and proposals requiring voting

Session Awards and Elections (Saturday 14.00 – 16.30)

12. IGC awards

12.1. Lilienthal Medal
Nomination by the Bureau
12.2. Pirat Gehriger Diploma
Nomination by New Zealand
12.3. Pelagia Majewska Medal
Nomination by USA

13. Elections of Officers (Bob Henderson/Eric Mozer)

Please note that Officers will be elected for two years following the IGC Plenum decision in 2008.

13.1. Information about changes to FAI By-laws concerning election of Officers.
13.2. Election of President
13.3. Election of 1st Vice President
13.4. Election of other Vice Presidents
13.5. Election of Secretary
13.6. Confirmation of Committees and Committee Chairmen

14. Date and place for the 2010 IGC Plenary Meeting

15. Closure