CIA says No to Juror Interpreters
Having been studied and discussed at length by the Jury Board, the issue of Juror Interpreters at CAT1 events was finally decided by the CIA. The CIA followed the Jury Board's recommendation and conclusion that the requirements and responsibilities for Jurors were incompatible with the use of interpreters for Jury members in CAT1 events. This decision, prohibiting the use of interpreters for Jurors, now clearly requests the CIA to only appoint Jurors for CAT1 events who are fluent in English.

Jurors At BX Events
In order to take care of the very different conditions in airship competitions, Jurors interested to be nominated for Jury duty at BX events shall in the future be required to have passed the Jury Board's TEST #5. This test is now available on request from the CIA Jury Board.

New Selection And Appointment Procedures
Good news for Jurors! Although the selection and appointment procedures were already defined in the Sporting Code, the Jury Board has found that only very rarely had the CIA exercised its right to nominate Juries for CAT1 events in recent years. This situation, favoring what some called "the old boys' travel club", tended to frustrate new Entry and Intermediate Level CIA Jurors who could not easily gain the experience required to be upgraded or to serve on CAT1 event Juries. In order to palliate these problems, the Jury Board proposed and the CIA adopted the following new rules that will hopefully affect the Jury Selection and Appointment Process for future events in the right way:

• No Juror shall be appointed by the CIA for more than two events during one calendar year.
  
• No person can be Juror of the same class of World or Continental Championships in two consecutive years.
  
• Organising NACs, if they wish to propose Jury Members for their event, must propose twice the number of approved Jurors, qualified for the relevant category of event, than they wish to have on the Jury.
  
• The CIA Jury Board shall, at their last meeting before the event
  
  • select the Jury Members from the proposed Jurors according to their qualifications, their experience, their availability and the number of Juries they served on during the previous two years,
    
  • retain the non-selected Jurors as alternate Jury Members to serve in case of necessary replacements,
    
  • recommend the selected Jury and the alternate Jury Members for appointment to the CIA.

FAI Officials' Expenses At CAT1 Events
More good news for Jurors! In order to avoid in the future problems encountered by Jurors in connection with expenses compensation, the Jury Board recommended that the following guidelines be included in the CIA Jury Members Handbook and the CIA Event Planning Guides:

• Organisers must include their policy on Jury Members expenses reimbursement in the initial bid for the event.
• Organisers are required to cover, as a minimum, the following Jury Members expenses:
  • Travel costs to and from the event
  • standard boarding and food for the duration of the event,
  • adequate transportation during the event (one car).
• The Event Director shall be the person responsible for all reimbursements.
• Travel expenses must be reimbursed at the officials' check-in. All other agreed expenses must have been reimbursed at the latest at the conclusion of the event.

CIA JURY MEMBERS HANDBOOK - ISSUE 5
Together with a new presentation, Issue 5 contains many modifications due to the revision of the Sporting Code General Section, new dispositions adopted by the CIA Plenary in March and additional guides and forms for verification of the scoring formulas and Land Run Task verification. Issue 5 will be mailed to all CIA approved Jurors in the near future, and the document will be available on the FAI's Internet Homepage.

New 1996 FAI Documents
1996 is well underway, and by now you should all know that the FAI has published the following new documents concerning all CIA Jurors:

• 1996 Statutes & By-Laws
• 1996 Sporting Code - General Section
• 1996 Sporting Code - Section One

Recurrent Training
Enclosed with this Newsletter you will find the first of the Jury Board's "Recurrent Training Test Paper". Being recurrent, these Open Book test papers will periodically be sent to all approved CIA Jurors and are part of a training program dedicated to new developments in Statutes, By-Laws, Sporting Codes and new CIA Policies, to compensate for knowledge erosion due to lack of use. The tests are not mandatory, but nevertheless, the Jury Board wishes to encourage all Jurors to take the tests and to return the completed forms to the Jury Board Chairman. Answers will be used to generate comments on questions, to be included in the next issue of the Newsletter, together with a new set of training questions.

New Jurors
The CIA Plenary approved the following new Jurors:

	- Tom DONNELLY		UK		Intermediate Level
	- Patrick KEARLY	UK		Entry Level
	- Lindsay MUIR		UK		Entry Level

Jury Reports
In order to allow CIA Jurors to study case history and procedures, the Jury Board has decided to make the Jury Reports and associated protest documents available to CIA approved Jurors. All 1995 and 1996 International Event Jury Reports, including protest documentation, were very well received. Some Reports from National Championships were also received. Many thanks.

- 1995 Swiss HAB Championships 			Jakob Burkhard	no protest
- 1995 Mildura International Balloon Fiesta	Tom Sheppard	no protest
- 1996 David Niven Cup				Neil Robertson	no protest
- 1996 Belgian HAB Championships		Don Cameron	one protest
- 3rd Coupe d'Europe de Montgolfières		Neil Robertson	one protest
- 12th World AX Championship			Garry Lockyer	no protest
- 12th Pacific Cup				Tom Sheppard	no protest
- 5th World BX Championship			Jacques Soukup	four protests
- 39th Coupe Gordon Bennett			Horst Hassold	no protest

In general, most Events were free from problems and the reports could have been limited to the Jury Handbook forms. A few Reports were very detailed and will be reprinted in the "Jury Manual" together with condensed versions of interesting protest cases. This procedure will take some more time, but we hope that it will be worth the effort.

As far as the Jury Reports are concerned, the 1996 Sporting Code General Section presents some important changes. Until now (GS 1990, 3.16.2.2), Jury Presidents were required to "advise FAI, within 8 days of the conclusion of the event, of the number of protests made together with the number upheld and the number which failed." From 1996 on (GS 1996, 3.16.2.2) Jury Presidents "shall advise the FAI Secretary General, within 8 days of the end of the event, of the number of protests made, together with the numbers of protests withdrawn , upheld or failed, and the respective Jury decisions", and (GS 1996 4.3.2.6.2) "shall send to FAI the record of Jury actions, the decision and the reasons for it, and copies of evidence, in case an appeal to FAI is made later". These dispositions make it very clear now that Jury Presidents are under the obligation to send all the relevant information and evidence to the FAI Secretary General within 8 days of the conclusion of the event. As the Jury Board Chairman has asked to make these reports available to the Jury Board, the Jury Presidents are no longer required to also send a report to the CIA Jury Board President. The respective form in the Jury Members Handbook has therefore been deleted.

WANTED!!
CIA Jurors are invited to check their files to dig out any interesting old protest documentation which could be used for training purposes or as case history. The Jury Board would appreciate if these documents could be sent to the Jury Board Chairman.

FAI on the INTERNET
Finally FAI is on the Net. At the FAI's site you will find a wide range of information, including FAI Statutes, By-Laws, and Sporting Codes; world records; championship results; sporting calendar; dates of FAI meetings; other details and documents relating to the CIA and other specific Air Sports Commissions. The information will be updated at regular intervals.
Thanks mainly to the efforts of Juror Alex Nagorski, the CIA has all its relevant documents available now on the Net, including this Newsletter. You can look up or download all these documents with a click of your mouse. Email addresses are also available at this site.
The FAI World Wide Web Homepage is at: http://www.fai.org/

Future Events - 1996

- 10th European AX Championship	        September 6	Austria	   Arnost Hönig,Les Purfield, Wolfgang Gruber
- 9th World AA Championship		August 23	Germany	   J.C. Weber, Jacob Burkard, Arno Sieger
- 40th Coupe Gordon Bennett		September 26 	Germany	   Jacques Soukup, Arnost Hönig, Dominik Haggeney
- 4th Pacific AX Championship	        November 18	Japan	   Tom Sheppard, Vic Thorne, Koji Ota
- 2nd World Match Flying Cup		June 29		Australia  Masashi Kakuda, (Jonathan Thornton), Darryl Stuart
- 4th Coupe d'Europe de Montgolfières   August 1	France	   Neil Robertson, Jacob Burkard, Brita Petersen
- Cappadocia Cup			September 18	Turkey	   Jacques Soukup, JC Weber, Sabu Ichiyoshi

- 13th World AX Championship	        November 15, 1997  Japan	?
- David Niven Cup			January 18, 1997   Switzerland	?
- World Air Games			September 15, 1997 Turkey	Jacques Soukup, JC Weber, Sabu Ichiyoshi
- South American AX Championship	1997		Brazil ?	?
- European BX Championship		1997		Greece ?	?
- 41st Coupe Gordon Bennett		1997		?		?

- 10th World AA Championship	        1998		?		?
- World Rozière Championship		1998		?		?
- European AX Championship		1998		Greece ?	?
- North American AX Championship	1998		Canada ?	?
- 5th Pacific AX Championship	        1998		Japan ?	        ?
- 42nd Coupe Gordon Bennett		1998		?		?
- 5th World BX Championships	        1998		Canada         	?
- 14th World AX Championship	        1999		Austria        	?
- European BX Championship		1999		?		?
- South American AX Championship	1999		?		?
- 43rd Coupe Gordon Bennett		1999		?		?
 

This Test Paper is not part of the CIA Jury Board's mandatory Juror qualifying test procedure. You are not required to take this test, you are invited to take it. The questions relate to new developments in the Sporting Code General Section and Section One, and the Jury Handbook.

1. In a sporting event, an entrant qualifies as an FAI Applicant. How do you define this quality?

O A person representing an FAI Officer.
O A person entered by the FAI Secretary General.
O A person unable to represent an NAC, authorised to participate by the FAI Council or the CIA.

O A group of more than one competitors representing different countries.
O A group of more than one competitors of different nationalities.
O A group of more than one competitors representing more than one NAC or FAI.

O By the participant's sporting license.
O By the participant's entry confirmation issued by the organisers.
O By the participant's identification document issued by or on behalf of the government of his country of residence.

O Mandatory invitation issued by the organising NAC to the FAI and CIA Presidents to assist to the Opening/Closing ceremonies.
O Invitation issued by the organising NAC to a participant from a non-eligible NAC.
O Mandatory invitation issued by the organising NAC to the winner of the previous event.

O Yes
O Yes, but only to give written evidence before the Jury.
O No, the Event Director's right is limited to the right to give both written and oral evidence before the Jury.

O true,
O wrong,
O only true if the secret ballot is requested by a Jury Member.

O as soon as possible after CIA approval,
O not later than three months before the start of the event,
O not later than at the beginning of the General Briefing.

O You agree and allow the Event Director to be present for the whole Jury Meeting, including the Jury deliberations.
O You disagree and inform the Event Director that he only has a right to give both written and oral evidence.
O You agree because the Event Director's operational rights include control of the Jury Meetings.

O Nothing, because the second language at this event is this Juror's mother tongue.
O You allow this Juror to bring his interpreter to the Jury Meetings.
O You carefully consider the implications and you inform the CIA President about the problem, and you request an immediate working solution.

O The Event Director,
O the Event Manager,
O the President of the local NAC.

O You do not accept the protest because the event has not yet started.
O You accept the protest and hand it to the Event Director.
O You accept the protest and call a Jury Meeting within 24 hours.

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3.

SENIOR LEVEL JURORS

BELGIUM			SAX Jean		+32-3-7762995
CANADA			LOCKYER Garry		+ 1-613-8363484
GERMANY			HASSOLD Horst		+49-821-4202116
			SIEGER Arno		+49-251-719233
JAPAN			KAKUDA Masashi		+81-3-5696-7070
UNITED KINGDOM	        PURFIELD Les		+44-1858-545834
			ROBERTSON Neil		+44-1225-834686
			THORNE Vic		+44-1275-858537
LUXEMBOURG		FELTES Alfi		+352-77246
			WEBER Jean Claude	+352-445508
SWEDEN			AKERSTEDT Hans		+46-8-7658331
USA			SHEPPARD Tom		+ 1-414-3381878
			SPAETH Debbie		+ 1-414-6772269
VIRGIN ISLANDS		SOUKUP Jacques		+ 1-809-7736205

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL JURORS

AUSTRIA			GRUBER Wolfgang		+ 43-2236-44584
CANADA			NAGORSKI Alex		+  1-403-4672778
CZECH REPUBLIC		HöNIG Arnost		+42-5-758002
GERMANY			PETERSEN Brita		+49-421-564241
UNITED KINGDOM	        CAMERON Don		+44-1275-875033
			DONNELLY TOM		+44-1302-852244
JAPAN			ICHIYOSHI Sabu		+81-3-33338003
			OTA Koji		+81-75-7249081
SWITZERLAND		BURKARD Jakob		+41-31-7811305
			ISELIN Ernst		+41-28-441832
USA			BIRK James		+ 1-419-7842887
			BLOUNT Alan		+ 1-708-4486755
			BRITTON Gary		+ 1-414-6771127
			BYRD James		+ 1-505-3440814
			STEFAN Karl		+ 1-970-2239107

ENTRY LEVEL JURORS

AUSTRALIA		PUTLAND Gren		+61-962-2300
			STUART Darryl		+61-7-55782424
AUSTRIA			KOCAR Helmut		+43-1-8152525
BRAZIL			THORNTON Jonathan	+55-11-4451722
CANADA			GLEED David		+ 1-604-5313400
			KNUCHEL Cathy		+ 1-514-3582392
			PENFOLD Ken		+ 1-705-7370607
			SCHOLTZ Murray      	+ 1-403-465667
FINLAND			JALAVA Risto		+358-64-4387485
FRANCE			LE MARCHAND Jean	+33-1-46059125
GERMANY			HAGGENEY Dominik	+49-2524-2125
HUNGARY			HIDAS Sandor		+36-1-2917121
JAPAN			OIWA Mako		+81-422-228541
SWEDEN			GRUBBSTROM John		+46-8-371520
			STENER Bengt		+46-31-441447
SWITZERLAND		KEARLEY Patrick		+41-22-7983862
			SIGNER Gerold		+41-71-534111
UNITED KINGDOM	        MUIR Lindsay	        +44-1453-872297
USA			CUTTER Sid		+ 1-505-3443238
			MURPHY Mike		+ 1-715-8746431
			SULLIVAN Mark		+ 1-505-2987110
			WALLACE Mike		+ 1-413-5670659
VIRGIN ISLANDS		THOMAS Kirk		+ 1-809-7736205

Having been a jury member and competition official at a number of events some distance from home, I will list a few points which I find useful to follow. Hopefully, they will help others, especially inexperienced International Jurors

One day you get a phone call or letter asking you to be a Jury President or member for a balloon event. Where do you start? What should you do? Who else is involved? All those questions start coming to mind.

First, clarify if you are definitely a jury member or are you on the recommended list that must be approved by the appropriate international or national organization? If you are on the recommended list, find out the approval date and ask the event organizers to notify if you have or have not been selected. You don't want to wind up waiting with tentative plans.

Before you saying yes, make sure you have a clear understanding of the dates you are expected to be there and expenses covered by the event organizer. These two items may influence your final decision so consider them carefully. You can always call back in a few days, and do not be afraid to negotiate the expenses.

Once there is verbal agreement, ask the event organizer to send you a letter of agreement documenting the expenses they are paying for and dates you are expected to be there. Bring a copy of that letter to the event in case you need to reference it.

OK, so you are ready to start making plans and getting organized. Lets break it down to the major topics, ideas and questions you need to address.

1) Travel - Can I get there from here?

• If it is further than a reasonable drive then you might need to work with a travel agent or talk to some airlines.
• Pick the travel schedule that is convenient for you and that does not bring you to the event tired and already lacking sleep.
• If you have never been in that city or country you might want to add some vacation time before or after the event so you can enjoy the overall experience. There should be no additional travel costs, and in fact may be cheaper when using airline excursion fares.
• Make arrangements to be picked up from the airport by the event organization and exchange faxes to make sure that dates and arrival times are understood. Considering you are usually picked up by a volunteer who has never seen you before, make sure the pickup point, descriptions, dress or signs are clear so you can find each other.
• Let the event organizer pay directly for the tickets so that you do not have to use any of your money and do not have to worry about being reimbursed once you get there.
• Clarify, with the event organizer, the transportation arrangements for jury members during the event. It is suggested that the jury have at least one car to use in their duties.

• Get the names of the other Jury members from the event organizer. It is a good time to make new friends and renew old acquaintances.
• If you are the Jury President you should plan on contacting the other jury members to ensure they have the needed documents, what their travel arrangements are, and when you can meet as a group before any official duties are to begin.
• Touch basis with the others a week before the event, just to make sure all plans are on track.

• Make sure you have the most recent copy of the CIA Jury Members Handbook since it will list the other required documents, procedures and forms to fill out.
• You should bring your own copies of the documents since you should review them all before the event and there are times that you might want check on certain items.
• You can obtain copies of all the documents from the CIA Ballooning Commission Web site on the Internet: http://www.fai.org/ballooning/
  under the documents item. This is the fastest method to obtaining the documents but if you do not have access to the Internet, you can contact your countries aero club or the FAI Office for copies.
• Get a copy of the event rules as soon as possible from the competition director.
• Read over the rules and you might want to compare them to the Uniform Model Rules or other rules you are familiar with.
• Ask the event organizer for a copy of the same invitation package, all the information competitors receive, and a list of the complete officiating team.
• If, by reviewing the rules and event information, you find a problem or potential problem, contact the competition director as soon as you can. It is better to clear up any misunderstanding or problems before the event starts.
• At the end of the event, make sure all of the required forms are completed by the jury members.

• Generally the organizers will put you in the same hotel as all the pilots and officials, so you will be where the action is.
• When checking into a hotel normally they will ask you for a credit card imprint, even though the organizer is paying the accommodations. Along with the imprint, it would be a good idea to attach a copy of you letter of agreement stating that the organizer is responsible for your accommodations during the event.
• If you plan to stay longer than the agreed upon days, make sure that the hotel is advised of those dates, and how you will be paying for them. Get a separate statement or bill for those days. Often when you stay longer, you can get the special event hotel rates which are usually cheaper.
• Unless agreed to, the organizer will not pay for your room service, personal phone calls or any other extras, so make sure you get a separate bill for them.
• When checking out of the hotel and you have extra charges, make sure that your credit card only lists those charge. If there are no charges, make sure your credit card imprint is totally destroyed. (At one event I cleared my hotel bill and destroyed my initial credit card imprint, but 9 months later I got a bill from the hotel for my complete stay. Fortunately, the credit card company was helpful and because the hotel did not have an imprint of my credit card, the charges were dropped.)
• If there are any problems with the organizer covering your accommodation expensive get things straightened out immediately with the organizer, hotel and yourself. It is much easier to do it when all parties are there, than through long distance calls.

• After you have settled into your accommodations, it is time to start finding the rest of your team, the officiating team and your way around the competition headquarters. This is another good reason for arriving a day before the event is to start.
• Here is where you pull out the CIA Jury Members Handbook and go over the procedures, checklists and forms. I will not go into further detail here as the Handbook is an excellent guide

• Here is where the Jury can get busy, so don't make too many social plans or plan your return home immediately after the awards. Yes, checkout from the hotel can be an issue, but you can always pack the night before or ask for an extension from the hotel. The priority is the event and not your accommodations or travel.
• If the time between the last task, scoring and the awards ceremony is quite short, there is a rush to get things finished and more possibility of scoring or calculation errors. The Jury must be watchful, involved and make sure everything is done correctly at this time (including last minute protests).
• Complete all the required event paperwork and documents. Again, it goes quicker and is less costly when everyone is together.
• Take the time. Do it right. Then it is finished.

• This is a good time to talk with the competition director, other officials and the event organizer on how the overall event went. If they did a good job, complement them. If they need improvement in some areas be honest with them.
• At some point all your responsibilities will be completed and you can go back to flying again!

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