CIA Plenary Meeting Minutes 2001 – Appendix 9

Minutes of Competitors Subcommittee Meeting

1st March 2001, Bern, Switzerland

Present:Uwe Schneider - Chairman

Mathijs de Bruijn

ExcusedAlan Blount

Observers:David LevinMarc SullivanRobertas Komza

Gerald StürzlingerFrederic MoizardPhilippe de Cock

Sean CavanaghJan BalkedalMichael Suchy

Salvator HaimJerzy Czerniawski

  1. Actions from Plenary Meeting March 2000. Thessaloniki, Greece

Motion to create a WG to actualize yearly and study further development of the World Ranking List.

Rationale:

The FAI/CIA decided on its conference 1999 that for the future development of the sport of ballooning the establishment of a World Ranking List would be beneficial. The task was originally assigned to the SWG and then passed to the AXWG. In the year 2000 the first preliminary edition was developed by Uwe Schneider. It was clearly determined that until further decision by the plenary the WRL will not be used for any qualification standards.

Also in the year 2000 the Competitors Subcommittee was established. It soon became clear that the acceptance of the WRL would be greatly improved if it would be established from within the group of competitors. When the Competitors Subcommittee was established the plenary agreed that the CSC should make a formal motion to establish the WRLWG in the year 2001.

World Ranking List Working Group

The purposes of the World Ranking List Working Group are to:

  1. Establish a World Ranking List (WRL) on a regular basis
  2. Continually study and improve the criteria and calculation method of the WRL
  3. Study the WRL update period or validity period (yearly or otherwise)
  4. Advice the CSC when and for what purposes the WRL might be used in future

Duration and disestablishment

The WRLWG is established by the CIA in 2001 for an unlimited period of time. The WG may be disestablished by the CIA plenary meeting by a two thirds majority.

Composition

The WRLWG shall be composed of a chairperson and up to four members. The Chairman and the members shall be active or recently active competitors preferable with international experience.

Procedures

Approved procedures as laid down in para 6.2 of the CIA IR.

Note: Under agenda item Nominations the CSC recommends Gerald Stürzlinger AUT (expert) as chairman and the following persons as members: David Levin USA (expert), Gintaras Surkus LIT (delegate), Frank Schweppe NED (expert), Uwe Schneider GER (alt. delegate)

  1. Proposal for Cat 1 event director test

At present there is a CIA directors list based on passing Jury Tests 1 and 4. The CSC will continue discussion and will come up with a proposal of tests and qualifications next year.

There has been a lengthy discussion on the nomination of directors by the event organisers of Cat 1 events. CSC felt it wise to adopt a policy like the jury nomination asking organisers to propose 3 names for the director and let CIA approve one of them. CSC will come with a solid proposal on the directors nomination process next year.

  1. Any other business

3aInvolvement in bid procedure

CSC encourages event organisers and EPAS to pass on information relevant to competitors on future event bids to the CSC. This would enable information of competitors and allow for their feedback to their delegates for decision on sanction proposals. (e.g. high entry fee)

3bWAG

from the experience of the WAG Cup the competitors learned that there will be hardly a chance for an afternoon flight in Seville, and if, it will most probably be a single task with not much steerage. To allow for extended morning flights without having to worry about afternoon briefing the CSC makes the following

Motion to run the WAG hot air balloon competition with only one competition flight per day. If the weather allows for a morning flight the afternoon briefing shall be cancelled. If there is a requirement from the organisers side to have competition balloons airborne in the afternoon, there should be a price flight called not being scored in the WAG competition and it will be ensured that at least 30% of the competition balloons will be airborne.

3cAgreement to a name

CSC discussed the (short) name to be used and decided to change from CCC to CSC to integrate in CIA.

3dweb page link

Due to the necessity of passing on information to competitors and collecting information from them in short time the CSC is running an own web page. It is clearly identified as an CIA subcommittees web page and thus it contains a link to the CIA web page. However the link from the CIA web page to the CSC web page is missing. Therefore CSC forwards the

Motion to install a link on the CIA web page to the CSC web page

  1. 2000/2001 CSC Members and Chairperson.

Mathijs deBruijn (NED) - Chairman

Uwe Schneider (GER)

Alan Blount (USA)

David Bareford (GBR)

Sean Cavanagh (AUS)

  1. Summary of recommendations/motions to the CIA

CSC forwards the motions to establish a World Ranking List Working Group as described in 1.

CSC forwards the motion to run the WAG hot air balloon competition in Seville 2001 with only one competitive task flight per day.

CSC forwards the motion to install a link on the CIA web page to the CSC web page

CSC recommends that it is involved in the bid procedure of events to be sanctioned

CSC recommends to be named CSC

CSC recommends the above mentioned persons for 2001/2002 as members and chairperson

CSC 17/11/18