The FAI Commission Internationale de Micro-Aviation (CIMA) held its annual plenary meeting in Lausanne over the weekend of November 14/15.

President Tomas BACKMAN (SWE) was re-elected to serve for another year.

Decisions taken during the meeting included the selection of athletes for the World Air Games 2009 in Turin and the creation of a female class in PF1 (footlaunched solo paramotors), giving female pilots the opportunity to set world records in their own class.

 

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The CIMA GNSS Flight Recorder Approvals Committee (FRAC) has approved the use of the Air Observer Micro Logger.

The approval document can be downloaded from the CIMA website at http://www.fai.org/microlight/flight_recorders.

The Organizer's website for the 10th FAI European Microlight Championship in Poland is now live.

It can be found at http://www.emc2008.pl/

The entry pack, including local regulations, for the 10th FAI European Microlight Championship has now been published on the web site. It can be downloaded at ftp://www.fai.org/microlight/championships/5130-1.zip

Following the decision of the CIMA plenary in November 2006, one reference to bouncing in Classics classes precision task catalogue was not amended properly.

In the 2007 Annex 4, 2.C3, [If the aircraft bounces the score will be the lowest value of the strips entered.] should be deleted.

A new version 2 of FAI Section 10 Annex 4 has now been issued to correct this error and is available at: http://www.fai.org/microlight/documents/sc10

This version 2 is identifiable in the following ways:

- "Amended 15 January 2007" on the cover page.
- A note at the top of Annex 4 describing the nature of the amendment.
- v2 in the header pages of the amended sections.

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