Checklist for setting an aviation world record

• Contact your National Airsport Control Organisation (NAC) to determine what the best previous performance is, if any, for the record you would like to set. Or check them HERE on the FAI Web Site. Do not forget to inquire about the record claims pending homologation.
• Review the FAI Sporting Code, General Section and relevant Specialised Section, to get an understanding of the rules and documentation requirements.
• Obtain an FAI sporting license from your NAC if you do not already hold a valid one.
• Your flight will have to be properly monitored and controlled. Determine with your NAC who will serve as Official Observer(s). If the flight is a 'speed over a recognised course' record between 2 airports, each with a control tower, the tower personnel are entitled to certify the times of start and finish.
• You should get in touch with your Official Observer(s) to discuss the flight and the procedures for documenting the record.
• The fun part.... you make the flight !
• Within 7 days of the flight, FAI must be officially notified that the flight was successful and provided with basic details of the performance.
• Send your NAC the complete details of the flight (on the prescribed forms if applicable) including any evidence required such as photographs, barograms.
• After your NAC receives and reviews the documentation file, your record should be certified as a National Record.
• If a World Record is being claimed, your NAC should then forward a complete dossier to FAI in Lausanne requesting that FAI approve the record as a World Record.
• Please note that FAI charges NACs an administrative fee of CHF 100 for processing each world record dossier. NACs may decide to pass this charge on to claimants.

Useful addresses :

Your NAC.

FAI
Avenue Mon-Repos 24
Ch-1005 Lausanne
Switzerland

Tel : +41 21 345 1070
Fax : +41 21 345 1077
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