Stéphane Malbos writes:

FAI wishes to establish a New Technology Working Group (NTWG) for
the purpose of defining modern standards for inflight electronic devices and for
managing the data they generate.

Air Sport Commissions (ASC) today have requirements in areas such as

live scoring

anti-collision safety measures

search and rescue capabilities and

advanced flight data recording.

Adjuncts to these requirements are

how is the flight data collected?

how is the data transmitted?

what are the associated costs?

An example of current technology in this space is the highly successful
ground-based tracking network, Open Glider Network (OGN) that is already
available to all air sports.

In the future, Flight Recorders and their flight data files should exploit the
latest technology so that they can be used in all FAI Air Sports in which Flight
Recording could be a requirement.

New Technology Working Group - Members

Chairman of the WG: Dr. Angel Casado

Experts in the WG: Marc Andre, CIA Joerg Ewald, CIVL Richard Meredith-Hardy,
CIMA Marc Ramsey, IGC

Support and advice: Visa-Matti Leinikki, FAI IT Manager

The Chairman of the working group may recruit additional members and advisors as
needed.

Parties to be involved as may be necessary

a) Flight Recorder manufacturers

b) Event Organizers, users of FR

c) Providers of live tracking systems

d) Governmental Authorities related to airspace, NACs

e) Avionic related experts, manufacturers

f) Any other party that may be necessary

Mission

General principles

To be the reference in terms of electronic devices used in and across FAI Air
Sport Commissions

To define FAI-standards for data collection and transmission devices.

To assure the use of the most appropriate measurements devices in competitions
and performance flights, in particular to increase competition attractiveness,
fairness and safety.

To find cost efficient solutions to technical challenges common to FAI
disciplines such as tracking or logging.

Specific areas of concentration

Develop the next generation of FAI Flight Data Collection and Transmission:

1. Live tracking of aircraft during FAI sanctioned events Support for data
communications protocols used by existing devices A new standard protocol,
suitable for all air sports Standardized packaging of data for presentation

2. Second generation flight data recording A new extensible and modular format
for flight data, suitable for all air sports Modern data transfer standards
Integration with other avionics

3. Cloud-based support of FAI events Protocols for support of generic tracking
devices and flight data recorders Centrally managed data integrity Integration
with FAI database of International Badges and Records Integration with FAI
Sporting License database FAI archiving of flight data

4 Transaction of business

Via email and/or Voice over IP services like Skype or Zoom. Specific workshop on
this topic as part of the preparations of the FAI World Air Games 2022,
scheduled to take place in the second half of 2019. Travel costs need to be
pre-approved by FAI Secretary General.

Term

Develop such a system and propose it to the FAI General Conference 2021.