CIG Meetings

These pages offer for downloading the minutes of the last CIG meetings, as well as information on future meetings.

The next meeting of the FAI Rotorcraft Commission will be held in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 26-27 February 2009.

2008 Meetings

The 2008 CIG Plenary Meeting was held in Turin (Italy) on 6-7 March.

Two CIG Bureau Meetings were held in Eisenach (Germany) on 12th and 16th August.

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The following documents are available for downloading below:

2007 Meetings

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The following documents are available for downloading below:

Plenary Meeting (March)

cig_minutes_2007.zip (104 Kb):
Minutes of the meeting, including annexes.

cig_agenda_2007.zip:
Provisional agenda for the meeting.

cig_agenda_2007_pack2.zip:
Agenda package 2 for the meeting: Draft World Helicopter Championship Rules.

Bureau Meeting (September)

cig_minutes_bureau_20070901.zip (70 Kb):
Minutes of the meeting.

2006 Meetings

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The following documents are available for downloading below:

Plenary Meeting (March)

cig_minutes_2006.zip:
Includes the minutes and annexes.

cig_agenda_2006.zip:
Includes the agenda and German bid to host the 2008 World Championship.

Bureau Meeting (September)

cig_minbur09_2006.pdf:
Includes the minutes.

2005 Meetings

Agenda for the March 2005 CIG Meeting

To be held in Lausanne on 3-4 March 2005.

14.30 – 17.00 Thursday
09.30 – 16.00 Friday

  1. Roll Call
     
  2. Apologies
     
  3. Proxies and Votes
     
  4. Declaration of any Conflicts of Interest
     
  5. Minutes of Meeting Lausanne 25th/26th March 2004
     
  6. Action by CIG Bureau since last Meeting
     
  7. Statement by UK Delegate
     
  8. FAI General Conference General Report – President and Secretary-General
     
  9. FAI World Air Games
     
  10. FAI Revision of Logo and new CIG Logo
     
  11. Amendments to World Championship Rules – Chairman of Sub-Committee
    1. Amendments to Rules
    2. Approval of data loggers
    3. Judges safety
    4. Rules for bottle opening competition
    5. New media event

  12. Frequency of Championships
    1. 2 years or 3 years
    2. Inter country challenge

  13. World Helicopter Championship
    1. Bids for 2005
    2. Bids for 2006/2008
    3. 2006 Tripartite event CIG and RAF Museum UK

  14. FAI Centenary
    1. CIG Participation
    2. Appointment of Operations Director

  15. Revision of Sporting Code – General Section
     
  16. FAI Rotorcraft Gold Medal
     
  17. CIG Webpage – Appointment of new Webmaster
     
  18. Finance
     
  19. Approval of International Judges
     
  20. Any Other Business
     
  21. Elections
     
  22. Date of Next Meeting

CIG BUREAU

Will Meet on Thursday 3rd March at 09.30 FAI Headquarters.
Also to attend the Meeting W.D. Tesar, Group Captain Roger Gault, President of Honour A.P. Herbert.

N.B.1. Delegates are requested to have their revised List of International and Assistant Judges for 2004/2005 available and handed to the Chairman of the Rules Committee not later than the start of the Meeting.

N.B.2. The Plenary Dinner with FAI Staff as Guests will take place on Thursday evening. Would you please advise the President and Secretary by mid-February the numbers in your party including any guests. If anybody has a special food requirement i.e. vegetarian would you please let the President know as quickly as possible.

Minutes of the March 2005 CIG Plenary Meeting

Click here to download the minutes of the 2005 CIG Plenary Meeting (PDF file; 48 Kb; including annexes 2, 3, and 4).

Minutes of the August 2005 Meeting

Minutes of a Meeting held on 16th August 2005 - World Championship Site – Rouen, France.

  1. Attendance
    President: David Hamilton (NewZealand)
    1st Vice President: Konrad Geissler (Germany)
    Secretary: Wolfgang Perplies (Germany)
    Jacques Escaffre (Delegate France)
    Roger Gault (Delegate New Zealand)
    Gary Georkov (Alternate Delegate Russia + Interpreter)
    John Matchett (Delegate UK)
     
  2. Apologies
    W.D. Tesar (Delegate Austria)
    Irina Grushina (2nd Vice President – Russia)
     
  3. Minutes of the Last Meeting
    The Minutes of the March 2005 Plenary Meeting will be considered at the Plenary Meeting 2006.
     
  4. Award of FAI Rotorcraft Medal
    A nomination for the award of the Medal to Alfred-Pierre Herbert (Switzerland) had been previously circulated in accordance with FAI By-Laws.

    The President advised that the award of the Rotorcraft Gold Medal was solely at the decision of the Rotorcraft Commission. The President drew attention to the procedure to be adopted. It was noted that proxy votes were not acceptable under By-Law 10.1.4.5.

    The President put the motion that the Commission award a Gold Medal in 2005. By an open vote it was agreed that an award would be made.

    The President proposed that in accordance with the nomination supported by the Aero Club of Switzerland the award of the Commission’s Gold Rotorcraft Medal be made to Alfred-Pierre Herbert. Mr. Konrad Geissler, 1st Vice President, seconded the motion which was carried unanimously.
     

  5. Judges
    The Secretary reported the addition of 3 Assistant Judges from France , 2 Assistant Judges from Germany and 2 Assistant Judges from Switzerland who were present at the Championship.

    There were no objections the Secretary being instructed to add these names to the list.
     

  6. Any Other Business
    (i) Appointment of Judges for the freestyle were left to the discretion of the Chief Judge, Wolfgang Perplies.

    (ii) Copy of the Master Map would be supplied to the Jury on the day of the navigation flight.

    (iii) The President extended to Jacques Escaffre the best wishes of the Commission for the Championship.

    (iv) Date of next meeting March 2006 – Lausanne.

2004 Meetings

The 2004 Plenary Meeting was held in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 25-26 March. In addition, a bureau meeting was held on 02 September in Zweibrucken (Germany).
Note: The CIG meeting documents are usually distributed as PDF files. PDF files can be read and printed using 'Acrobat Reader', a programme available for free at http://www.adobe.com/. We highly recommend that you use Acrobat Reader version 4 or above, as backward compatibility problems have been reported by users of earlier versions. In particular, some drawings will not format and display correctly with early versions of Acrobat Reader.

Minutes of the 2004 CIG Plenary Meeting

Click here to download the minutes of the 2004 CIG Plenary Meeting (PDF file; 63 Kb; including annexes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8)

Annex 5 to the minutes

GPS loggers: experience and proposals. Click here to download as ZIP-compressed Powerpoint file (9510 Kb)

Minutes - September 2004 CIG Bureau Meeting

DECISIONS TAKEN BY THE BUREAU AT A MEETING HELD ON
Thursday 2nd SEPTEMBER 2004 ZWEIBRUCKEN, GERMANY.

  1. Present:

    David Hamilton – President, Konrad Geissler – 1st Vice President, Wolfgang Perplies – Secretary. Also in attendance President of Honor – Alfred-Pierre Herbert.

  2. Minutes of Plenary Meeting 25th/26th March 2004

    It was agreed that the Minutes were a correct record of the Meeting.

  3. Record Application – Pole to Pole – Jennifer Murray

    The President reported that the FAI had notified a time limit to produce the missing data required for the record file. He had contacted Mrs. Murray and offered his help.

  4. World Helicopter Championship 2005

    The Bureau expressed great surprise that the requirement by the Commission for the bid to be submitted in writing had been ignored. The President reported that he had sent a reminder to which there had been no response.

    Discussion took place with regard to the level of fees. The Bureau reached the conclusion that although they personally considered the fees as being excessive they would await responses by the Delegates.

    The first Bulletin was regarded as premature and poorly drafted, because the “Bid” must be approved and the “Organiser Agreement” signed in advance of any Bulletin. A request would be made for its withdrawal. The prospective organisers would be given until 30th September 2004 to provide the total bid document. The President was instructed that this timescale should not to be extended.

  5. International Helitrade Exhibition, Geneva – October 2004

    The UK Delegate was making a presentation in respect to the Championship at this Exhibition. No member of the FAI or the Bureau of CIG had either been informed or invited to participate at the event. The UK Delegate would be requested to refer to a ‘proposed Championship’ which was yet to be confirmed.

  6. Media Friendly Events

    Further work is required in respect to the ‘bottle opening’ and a prospective ‘piano event’. Proposals would be presented in March 2005 as the basis for a Media Helicopter Festival.

  7. Any Other Business

    The Bureau decided that all Plenary and Bureau Minutes would appear on the CIG Website.

2003 Meeting

The 2003 Plenary Meeting was held in Lausanne on 27-28 March. The links below allow you to download the documents associated with this meeting.

Plenary Meeting:

cig_minutes_2003.zip:
Minutes of the meeting.

cig_agenda_2003.zip:
Agenda for the meeting, and proposals for participation in World Air Games.

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2002 Meetings

2002 Bureau Meeting (August)

This Bureau Meeting was held in Aigen-Ennstall (Austria) on 25 August 2002.

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2002 Plenary Meeting (March)

The 2002 Plenary Meeting was held in Lausanne on 22 March. The links below allow you to download the documents associated with this meeting.

Note: The CIG meeting documents are usually distributed as PDF files. PDF files can be read and printed using 'Acrobat Reader', a programme available for free at http://www.adobe.com/. We highly recommend that you use Acrobat Reader version 4 or above, as backward compatibility problems have been reported by users of earlier versions. In particular, some drawings will not format and display correctly with early versions of Acrobat Reader.

Minutes of the 2002 plenary meeting

Agenda for the 2002 plenary meeting

Notes :
- the meeting will be held at the Olympic Museum, Lausanne on 22nd March 2002 at 09.15
- the CIG Bureau will meet at FAI Office Lausanne on 21st March at 14.00

  1. Roll call of Delegates
  2. Apologies
  3. Proxies and Votes
  4. Minutes of last meeting 30th March 2001 in Lausanne
  5. FAI General Conference and Annual Preview by the President of CIG
  6. Future of World Air Games
  7. Report on 2001 German Helicopter Championship (for information only)
  8. World Championship Rules
  9. World Helicopter Championship 2002
    a. Progress Report
    b. Approval of outstanding organisational matters
  10. Proposals and Offers to Host future Championships
  11. Report and proposals for use of Advanced Data Logging System for World Helicopter Championships. Presentation by Austrian Aero Club.
  12. FAI Rotorcraft Gold Medal (Nominations for 2001/2002 to be made in writing to FAI Secretary General and FAI CIG President by 28th February 2002)
  13. FAI/CIG Website
  14. Nominations of new Judges
  15. Any Other Business
  16. Elections
  17. Date of Next Meeting

2001 Meeting

The 2001 Plenary Meeting was held in Lausanne on 30 March. The links below allow you to download the documents associated with this meeting.

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Minutes of the 2001 meeting

Annex 1 to the 2001 minutes

New consolidated event 1.

Annex 2 to the 2001 minutes

Swiss Proposal - new event : Fender Rigging.

Agenda for the 2001 meeting