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FAI names the new Secretary General…

… and for the first time in history it is a woman! The German record pilot Susanne Schoedel will start her new assignment with the FAI in March. Susanne who just returned from a gliding camp in Bitterwasser, and supplied the world of soaring with good news is currently busy with the German women soaring…

Simplifying the IGC Sporting Code for Gliding

At the 2013 IGC Plenary Meeting in Papendal the Sporting Code Committee put forward a discussion paper suggesting that it was time to make a radical revision of the Sporting Code for Gliding. This was accepted and the Committee has now begun the work to achieve this.

New Version of FAI Sporting Code

The new version of the Sporting Code, Section 3 Gliding, to take effect on 1st October 2012, is now available on the IGC section of the FAI website. There are a number of new provisions as approved by the IGC Plenary meeting in March.