[Fwd: [Giant Scale Aerobatics] Federation Aronautique Internationale]

[Bill Glaze]

If this doesn't deflect some of the spread spectrum discussion, nothing 
will.  (At least, for the FAI pilots.) 
BTW: Simon is a highly respected Canadian who flys IMAC and is an 
engineer in electronic related disciplines
Bill Glaze
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[Giant Scale Aerobatics] Federation Aronautique Internationale
Date: 	Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:02:38 -0700
From: 	Simon Van Leeuwen <lomcovak at telusplanet.net>
Reply-To: 	gsal at yahoogroups.com
Organization: 	Radius Systems
To: 	IMAC - Yahoo <mini-iac at onelist.com>, GSAL - Yahoo 
<gsal at yahoogroups.com>



Although the GSAL list was not a part of the recent discussion, they 
might benefit from the following;

I spoke to Jack Humphries this afternoon, one of our CIAM reps (Aero 
Club of Canada) for FAI. He just returned from a big to-do in France 
celebrating the 100th anniversary of FAI. Pretty nice celebration 
apparently, considering it included representation from all air sports.

Anyways, we got to talking about the organization, here are some little 
known facts:
- The only two disciplines that are growing in membership are is 
para-gliding and model aircraft
- Modelers outnumber all other disciplines combined.
- As modelers, we pay out of our memberships our own governing bodies 
collect (MAAC/AMA) to the FAI, maybe a buck or slightly more a head. We 
pay significantly less than say a full scale aerobatic pilot (it’s 
weighted/calculated on the number of member participants).
- We, as a modeling group, are the largest contributor to the FAI 
organization.

What this implies (now more than ever) is that it will not be long 
before "we" run the FAI. IT will be interesting five years from now. 
Where before we were looked upon as some child that could be placated 
and shooed away, FAI has been forced to reckon with us, as we now are 
the majority membership. Think about that for a moment. Obviously there 
is more to this picture, but it should become clear to the nay-sayers 
just how far off base they are. We collectively have an opportunity to 
move forward. More to the point, so has the rest of the world who fly 
large scale aerobatics.

As a result of the recent F3M proposal, it is likely that this coming 
spring a set of provisional rules will be released allowing an 
opportunity to iron out the bugs. It usually takes a couple of years to 
accomplish this. One thing is for sure, at least 4 contests with 
participation from at least 5 countries must be evident in order to have 
a chance at a sanction.

Also, there is resitance within CIAM to approve adding additional FAI 
world championships to the roster, and are very motivated to ask "what 
would we like to drop/replace in order to install another catagory.

F3B, although I like it and compete occasionally, is on it's last legs I 
suspect. So apparently is scale control line. Events that attract less 
than 5 countries automatically come up for review.




-- 
Simon Van Leeuwen
RADIUS SYSTEMS
PnP SYSTEMS - The E-Harness of Choice
Cogito Ergo Zooom




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