Minutes of IGC Meeting, 14-16 March, 1996, Part C

9 WORLD GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIPS, INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

9.1 25th World Gliding Championships, in St. Auban, France, 22. June to 6. July, 1997

Jacky Clairbaux, the designated director of this event, reported:

The preparations for the 25th Gliding World Championships are well in hand. Jacky Clairbaux, who is employed full-time by the French gliding association FFVV for the championships, promised to continue the development of the European Championships in Finland, where he will be serving as steward. Also the Finish rules and scoring system - approved by IGC - will apply in France. There are already some sponsors, the organisers will make the right use of the "black boxes" to support publicity.

The great interest within the gliding community for this event is shown by the high number of preliminary entries for the international gliding contest "Lavender Glide", which will be held at St. Auban from July 23 to August 7, 1996, with one training week preceding. 115 preliminary entries have been received, 48 for the standard class, 44 for the 15 m class, and 23 for the open class.

All further information are included in the newsletter No 3 which was distributed to all delegates attending the meeting in Marly-Le-Roi and sent to all NACs that were not represented at this meeting. Newsletter No 4 together with the rules, a turn point list, and the list of the definitely registered competitors will be sent to all entered pilots in due time before the contest.

Tor Johannessen, chairman of the rules sub-committee, stated that the organisers increasingly use the rules of Annex A as they are - except some unavoidable deviations in the local regulations - while in former years all organisers tried to invent their own rules. Moreover, the attention of the designated director was drawn to the fact that organisers can allow any GNSS flight recorders, regardless if they are approved by GFAC or not.

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9.2 26th World Gliding Championships 1999 in Bayreuth, Germany

The German delegate, Bruno Gantenbrink, reported that the first preparations for 1999 are going on. He promised that the event will take place under compliance with the conditions of the bid.

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9.3 27th World Gliding Championships, 2001.

In addition to the announcement of an official bid from Australia, to organise this event at the airfield Gawler near Adelaide, South Australia, a bid from Poland with the airfield Leszno was presented and one from South Africa with the airfield Mmabatho was announced.

Very successful Australian nationals have been organised at Gawler. The bid is strongly supported by the South Australian government The chairman of the bid committee is Dr. Bruce Eastick, the Mayor of Gawler. Accommodation is offered at most affordable rates at a college not far from the airfield.
The Aero Club of Poland offers the airfield Leszno for the 27th Championships. This site is well known as the venue of the legendary World Gliding Championships 1958 and 1968 and many other great international gliding events. The low costs of living in Poland are well known.
South Africa has seen many world records but never an international gliding event as yet. Mmabatho - a kind of colourful laboratory town- offers plenty of economical hotel rooms, and excellent thermal conditions. Quite a number of 1 000 km flights and world records have been flown from there.

The President informed the attendants that the place of the 27th World Gliding Championships 2001 will be elected by an official vote at the spring meeting, 1997.

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9.4 The First World Masters, to be held at Omarama, New Zealand, 1. to 22. November, 1998

John Roake, New Zealand, reported that the organisation team of the 1995 World Gliding Championships is going to run a new type of championships. All holders of a Gold Badge and being 40 years of age or older are qualified. The registration form is included as Annex E to these minutes.

The entry fee will be 850 US$. There will be a small additional fee where two or more pilots are share-flying the same sailplane. There will be three classes, Standard, 15 m, and Open. Each class will have three (or more) division age groups, 40 to 49, 50 to 59, and 60 and older, all subject to a maximum of 40 sailplanes in any one class.

The organisers will offer discounts on fares for travel by Air New Zealand and for shipping of sailplanes. Details will be available in early 1997.

The contest will be put on the FAI event calendar. Note added to the minutes: A sanction fee of 1000 US$ has been agreed with the Organisers.

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