Amendment List 5 to the IGC Technical Specification for GNSS flight recorders, effective 30.5.02, has been published by GFAC and can be found at the IGC web site:

http://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss/tech_spec_gnss.asp

The new version of the revised document including AL5 will be available shortly.

The minutes of the last IGC meeting (1-2.3.02 in Lausanne) have been published on the FAI web site, see:
http://www.fai.org/gliding/meetings/2002/igc.minutes.3-02.pdf.

Announcement from Marek F.Uzarowski, Leszno, Poland (mandias@wp.pl)

The decision made by the International Gliding Commision thet WGC 2003 has given us the 'green light' to go ahead with the so-called PreWorld Competition 2002. Due to lack of time we will have to run it together with the Polish National Juniors' Gliding Championships. We therefore invite all those interested in participating in the PreWorlds to Leszno from 13.08 until 29.08.2002. The airfield area will be opened to all of you the week before the 13th.

To those of you who cannot come to Leszno in August we can offer as an alternative participation in the International Polish Gliding Championships in the Open Class, from 18.05.2002 until 02.06.2002. We do realize that the time for this event is very short, but anyone willing and able to take part can download the entry form from www.aeroleszno.org . Send the entry form by e-mail to al@aeroleszno.org or by fax to +48 65 5293 219.

The official web site for the WGC 2003 and the PreWorlds 2002 will be established in one or two weeks time. There you will find all relevant information for both events. There will also be an on-line entry form.

On the 24th of April the IGC President Tor Johannessen and Vice President Brian Spreckley met with the organising committee for the 2003 WGC at Rieti. During the meeting serious flaws in the preparations for the 2002 preparatory event became evident. The preparatory event was scheduled for August only three and a half months away.

• There was no functioning Championship director
  
• no information bulletins had been sent out,
  
• no invitations had been sent out,
  
• no web site was established for the event.
  
• no system for entering the contest had been established
  Consequently, NACs had no possibility to enter teams in the event and many are now unable to make arrangements to do so.
  

It is an IGC requirement that the NAC awarded a WGC shall organise a Preparatory Contest one year ahead of the WGC. This is to prove that the organising staff is proficient and that the participants have the possibility to acquaint themselves with the conditions locally and in the contest area. The contest shall as far as possible be run under the same rules and conditions and at the same time of the year as the main event.

As the local conditions in Rieti due to the mountainous terrain are quite special, the preparatory contest is believed to be of greater importance than in venues with flat terrain. The absence of a preparatory event with the possibility for the competitors to get acquainted in the area significantly affect the chances of the 2003 WGC being a fair contest, competitors unacquainted with the area will suffer a significant disadvantage.

Based on the lack of preparations for the 2002 Preparatory Contest, the IGC Bureau has decided that the venue for the World Gliding Championships in 2003 will be moved to Leszno in Poland instead of Rieti in Italy.

Tor Johannessen

IGC President

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