Main decisions taken at the 2013 CIAM Annual Meeting

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM) was held on 19 and 20 April 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland. This year saw a particularly high number of delegates and a total attendance of around 90 people.

The Memorandum of Understanding between CIAM and FAME (FAI Air Sports Marketing and Events SA) was signed on Friday afternoon in front of the Delegates.
CIAM President Antonis Papadopoulos said, "As CIAM President I am very pleased to start the cooperation with FAME. It is really important for CIAM to launch this project since it will offer many new opportunities to make our activity more interesting for the public and more attractive for the participants. FAME expertise will guide us to develop new events the way the public and the sponsors are looking for, rather than using existing ones and trying to adjust them."

Friday evening’s Open Forum discussion included:

• reducing the number of championships, including a moratorium on new championships or combining several into one event.
• new formats of championships which were more attractive to media and also new participants
• prohibiting the use of technical aids (gyros, telemetry etc.) when it was considered that most young flyers enjoy the use of such technology. Resisting change and remaining with long time existing regulations was seen as a barrier to new entrants
• Several delegates, not least AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) President Bob BROWN, emphasised the need to adopt a new approach to championships and competitions in order to encourage new participants and attract more attention to these events

Electronic voting was used for the first time successfully and allowed a significant gain of time.
Papadopoulos said, "The system proved to be very efficient, especially so for votings where many rounds were needed. Compared to the system used in the previous years (paper slips), the difference is like day and night, if I can say so. Just an example, last year we needed 4 rounds of voting to award the CIAM Aeromodelling Gold medal with 6 candidates and we spent close to 1 hour and a half. This year with the same number of candidates and the same number of rounds, we hardly needed 10 minutes."

Besides the sporting code proposals that were adopted, here are the main decisions that were taken during the meeting:

Future competitions

The organisation of the following competitions has been awarded:

2015 world championships:

2015 FAI World Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft
F1A, F1B, F1C - Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) - 27 Jul to 03 Aug 2015
2015 FAI World Championship for Free Flight Slope Soaring Model Aircraft
F1E - Zlatibor (Serbia) - 2015 (date to be advised)
2015 FAI World Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft   
F3A - Dübendorf (Switzerland) - 06 Aug to 16 Aug 2015
2015 FAI World Championship for Multi-Task Gliders  
F3B - Deelen (Netherlands) - 2015 (date to be advised)
2015 FAI World Championship for Hand-Launched Gliders  
F3K - Ludbreg (Croatia) - 19 Jul to 26 Jul 2015
2015 FAI World Championship for Indoor Aerobatic Model Aircraft
F3P - Warszawa, Prusków (Poland) - 2015 (date to be advised)

2016 world championships:

2016 FAI World Championships for Control Line Model Aircraft   
F2A, F2B, F2C, F2D - Perth (Australia) - 2016 (date to be advised)

2014 continental championships:

2014 FAI European Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft
F1A, F1B, F1C - Salonta (Romania) - 23 Aug to 29 Aug 2014 - awarded in 2012
2014 FAI European Championship for Free Flight Slope Soaring Model Aircraft
F1E - Martin (Slovakia) - 2014 (date to be advised) - awarded in 2012
2014 FAI European Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft
F3A - Bendern (Liechtenstein) - 11 Jul to 19 Jul 2014
2014 FAI Asian-Oceanic Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft
F3A - Pattaya (Thailand) - 11 May to 17 May 2014 - awarded in 2012

2015 continental championships:

2015 FAI Junior European Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft  
F1A, F1B, F1P - Location to be advised (Romania) - 2015 (date to be advised)
2015 FAI European Championship for Free Flight Indoor Model Aircraft
F1D - Belgrade (Serbia) - 2015 (date to be advised)
2015 FAI European Championships for Control Line Model Aircraft  
F3A, F2B, F2C, F2D - Location to be advised (Bulgaria) - 2015 (date to be advised)
2015 FAI European Championships for Space Models
Dnipropetrovs'k (Ukraine) - 01 Sep to 08 Sep 2015

-> Check out the calendar for all Aeromodelling past and future events.

Awards

The FAI Aeromodelling Gold Medal: Mrs. Jo HALMAN (GBR)
The Andrei Tupolev Medal: Vladimir CIPCIC (SRB)
The Alphone Penaud Diploma: Sandor KALMAR (HUN)
The Andrei Tupolev Diploma: Antony MOTT (AUS)
The Antonov Diploma: Michael RAMEL (GER)
The Frank Ehling Diploma: Nikola CVJETICANIN (SRB)

CIAM Scholarship: Loic BURBAUD (FRA). A new diploma, called “Spirit of Flight”, will be awarded to the winner.

Bureau Elections

President : Antonis PAPADOPOULOS (GRE)
1st Vice President : Gerhard WÖBBEKING (GER)
2nd Vice President : Kevin DODD (AUS)
3rd Vice President & Treasurer: Andras REE (HUN)
Secretary : Massimo SEMOLI (SUI)
Technical Secretary : Mrs. Jo HALMAN (GBR)

Subcommittee Chair(wo)men    

SC: F1 Free Flight - Ian KAYNES
SC: F3 RC Aerobatics – Michael RAMEL
SC: F3 RC Soaring – Tomas BARTOVSKY
SC: F3 RC Helicopter – Dag ECKHOFF
SC: F3 RC Pylon Racing – Rob METKEMEIJER

The 5 other SC chairmen were confirmed for the second year of their term.

Technical Representatives & Special Duties    

New / Asian Beach Games Liaison Officer: Rob METKEMEIJER

Next Meetings   

The 2014 CIAM Annual Meeting will take place in Lausanne (SUI) from 11 to 12 April 2014.

The Bureau Members will meet on 6-7 December 2013 and on 10 April 2014 at the same location.

Pictures

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