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FAI
Annual Report–2013
FAI
Annual Report–2013
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Air Sports
Amateur-Built
& Experimental
Aircraft
Commission
CIACA
“The FAI-sanctioned
its first ever
Human-Powered
Aircraft competition”
2013 was FAI Amateur-Built and Experimental Aircraft
Commission’ssecondyear asanAirSportCommissionand
the conversion progress is still ongoing. The objective is
to take care of competitions and recordswhile developing
new disciplines to entice FAI Members to extend their
new technologies activities.
The 2013 Icarus Cup for Human-PoweredAircraft became
the first Human-Powered Aircraft competition to be
sanctionedby the FAI. This exciting branch of aviation has
continued to develop tremendously worldwidewithin the
last five years and the Commission is keen to encourage
that development through international competitions.
Sporting Code
The Commission, which already manages Section 11
(Human-Powered Aircraft) of the Sporting Code, took
ownership of Section 13 which sets out the rules and
procedures to be used to verify solar-powered aeroplane
flight performances, such as those achieved with Solar
Impulse.
2013 Icarus Cup for Human-powered aircraft
TheFAI-sanctionedthe2013IcarusCupforHuman-Powered
Aircraft as aCategory 2 event. It was the very first time that
this sport featured in the FAI Events Calendar.
The Icarus Cup is organised by the Royal Aeronautical
Society (RAeS) at Sywell Aerodrome Northampton, Great
Britain. Teams try and complete the following series of
challenges designed to test all aspects of human-powered
flight: duration, a 200m sprint race, a 1km race, a slalom
course, a take-off performance and landing accuracy
task and distance around a triangular course.
Several FAI personalities collaboratedwith the organising
committeeandwerepresent during the event tobothshare
their long experience in air sports event organisation and
learn how to successfully run a Human-Powered Aircraft
competition, in preparation for a potential 1st FAI World
Championship for Human-Powered Aircraft in 2015.
Solar Impulse
During the recordflights of Solar ImpulseacrossAmerica in
2013 (see page 30), theCommissionPresident was present
at the control centre inPayerne, Switzerland, and followed
the proceedings on the screens and via a satellite phone
directly connected with the pilot.
Electric Homebuilt Aircraft
The numerous new projects of electric aircraft will lead
to an additional competition within the Commission.
The discussions regarding a correct and valid Sporting
Code to emphasise and motivate the aircraft builders
all over the world to join this young branch of building
ecological aircraft will continue.
Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the Commission took place in
Lausanne, Switzerland, on 13 April 2013.
