http://www.fai.org/civl-about-us/civl-meetings (Click on Plenary, Agenda)

Proposals to be discussed:

Existing rule:

2. 29.2 Controlled Airspace

The organisers shall specify in the local regulations or at briefing, controlled
airspace or other areas where flight by competing gliders is prohibited or
restricted. Such areas shall be precisely marked on published maps.

The penalty for violation of published airspace restrictions shall be a warning
for the first infringement of less than 100m by a pilot. For infringements
greater than this or for subsequent infringements the pilot shall score zero for
the day. For infringements of airspace boundaries that have been specified in
the Local Regulations or during the task briefing the penalty shall be specified
in the Local Regulations.

Replace with:

The organisers shall specify in the local regulations or at briefing, controlled
airspace or other areas where flight by competing gliders is prohibited or
restricted. Such areas shall be precisely marked on published maps and provided
as openair.txt format files for display on instruments and scoring check.

Pilots who’s recorded track comes closer than 100m vertically or horizontally to
prohibited airspace shall be listed in the scores for each task without penalty.
Where the pilots track log is recorded more than 30m inside prohibited airspace,
vertically or horizontally, the pilot shall score zero for the day.

The entire flight from launch to landing will be considered for such violations
irrespective of task being active or stopped, the course started or finished.

Instead of:

12. 6.3

All pilots competing in 1st Category events must wear a helmet certified to
EN966 (HPG) at all times whilst flying.

New text:

12. 6.3

All pilots competing in 1st Category events must wear a helmet certified to
either EN966 (HPG), EN1077-A and –B (Snow Sports), ASTM 2040 (Snow Sports) or
SNELL rs98 (Snow Sports) at all times while flying.

4- Scoring stopped task

Aim: The reasoning is to make it fairer to pilots whenever a task is stopped,
thus making it easier for the safety director to stop a task.

We propose to adapt the current PG rule and altitude bonus for stopped task in
HG. See 12.3 of Annex 24b.

1. GPS distance measurements

1. 1 Proposal

1. Change Section 7 in its entirety, including all annexes and referenced rule
documents, to the effect that the only earth model used for distance
measurements within CIVL is the FAI sphere.

Number of competitions:

The number of events is increasing but the average number of pilots per event
decreasing. This may be because many organisers by default now sanction events
in 3 classes, Class 1, Class 1 Sports and Class 5 without practical
consideration of the likely number of attendees. Pilot numbers in the Sports
Class, Class 2 and Class 5 events are very low.