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1.4 Responsibility of the Organizers


1.4.1 The Organisers shall pay due regard to safety and fairness in all aspects of the championships.


The Organisers may issue additional rules regarding safety in the Local Procedures.


1.4.2 The Organisers shall provide:

a. All facilities necessary for the satisfactory operation of the Championships.

b. Each competitor and Team Captain with all complementary information upon arrival at the contest site, including a large scale map section showing each of the start, turn and control points, and an electronic version of the start, turn
point and control point data base in the IGC standard file format for turn point data files.

c. Full meteorological information during the Championships, access to which shall be available to competitors and assistants in addition to briefing material supplied to the competitors.

The meteorological, GNSS and other flight data from a Championship are the property of the Organisers and should be distributed freely.

The Organisers should provide a copy of the stand-alone Local Procedures document to each Team Captain.


1.4.3 The Organisers shall perform doping controls in accordance with FAI Rules and National requirements as stated in the Local Procedures.


1.4.4 The Organisers shall form a Safety Committee consisting of at least one of the event Stewards and one pilot from each competing class. The representative pilots shall be selected by vote by the other pilots in the class.

The role of the Safety Committee is to receive and investigate complaints regarding poor airmanship. The Committee has no powers of discipline but may censure a pilot and is required to advise the Organisers if a pilot repeatedly offends against sound airmanship.


1.4.5 The Organisers must pay sanction fees to FAI as decided by IGC.


1.4.6 The travel and living expenses for the International Officials (Jury and Stewards)
are the responsibility of the Organisers.

Other arrangements may be agreed upon with the individual Official.