6.1 Sub-Committees

6.1.1. Business Development Committee Report

Mr Bradley, chairman of the Committee apologised for not providing a report before the meeting. The report will be published on the web immediately after the meeting.

The president reminded the plenum that we all are working on a voluntary basis, and although we try to work to strict deadlines, we sometimes have to accept that professional activities or personal matters get higher priority than IGC.

6.1.2. Communications and PR and Web specialist’s Report

Mr Henderson added to his PR report that we were in a phase of rapid development of the communications plan, something that we should try to exploit to support IGC.

Mr Tor Johannessen is working with Prof. Piero Morelli and Mr Fred Weinholtz on the history committee to identify and classify historical documentation. Some material is missing and the Committee will now work with the NACs to retrieve the missing material. In particular the DAeC, BGA and FFVV are expected to have interesting material and will soon be contacted.

The IGC Web Specialist Peter Ryder reported that FAI has a new context management system in place. This will make it easier for us to manage the information.

The web has also been redesigned with a new lay-out. The Web Specialist asked for comments about the lay-out and content of the web.

We will establish a policy for the content and updates of the web, meaning that we hopefully will have regular updates.

The Membership challenge report from Mr John Roake was distributed to the delegates, and can be found on the FAI web. This very important statistical material shows that we unfortunately still have a negative trend.

6.1.3. Competition Development and Quality Control Report

The chairman, Mr Eric Mozer had submitted the report before the meeting. The committee is a new development of the Bureau, tasked to look at the quality of our competitions. Mr Mozer will recruit more members to the group.

A paper on the development of the Microlift Glider had been developed by Prof. Morelli. This was not part of the agenda. The paper is published on the FAI web site.

6.1.4. FAI Centenary 2005 Report

Mr Mozer reported that the Southern Hemisphere Gliding Week was completed. Statistics would be made available later in the meeting during the On-Line Contest presentation. It was agreed that the publicity for the Southern Hemisphere Gliding Weeks was inadequate, and Mr Mozer promised that the competition would be more visible for the Northern hemisphere gliding week which takes place in the period 9th to 24th July.

There will be a press release just after the IGC meeting summarising the results of the Southern hemisphere asking pilots to be very active during the Northern hemisphere weeks.

6.1.5 Championships Management Committee Report

Mr Mozer explained that this Committee is dealing with the structure of the championships and looking after the bids. Most of the activities in the previous year had been related to the many bids that will be presented later in the meeting.