Handbook for Official Observers

To be used in conjunction with the FAI Sporting Code Section 3 (Gliders and Motor Gliders), 1992 edition. Editor's Note: the links in this WWW version are to the current [ October 1995 ] version of Section 3, and the paragraph numbers may not always be correct.

This document needs updating to take Amendment 3 to the Code into account, and the used of GPS for badges and records.

Formal amendments are published by the BGA and are prepared by the Competitions and Awards Committee

When holders of this Guide have incorporated an amendment in the main text, they should insert a copy of the amendment list instructions after this page, so that at a later date, the subjects of the amendment may easily be identified. Where a whole page is replaced by a pre-printed amended page, the Edition and AL number concerned will be printed in the bottom left corner of each page, so that a page check will quickly reveal whether a copy of this document is amended up to date. This copy was printed in Feb 93 and contains some small corrections compared with the Dec 92 version, particularly to the small table on Page 11.

Paras     Subject

                    General

1-5       Introduction
6         International rules
7         UK/BGA rules
8-9       Appointment of OOs
10-12     OOs - General Responsibilities

                    Barographs

13-17     General
18-20     Inspection and Sealing
21-22     Opening
23-24     Motor Gliders
25-28     Calibration Charts
29-30     Interpreting Barograms and Calibrations
31-32     Electronic Barographs and/or Flight Recorders

                    Distance measurement

33        Methods of Measurement
34        Distance Penalties for Excess Altitude Difference
34.1           "    "    -  Silver C Distance
34.2           "    "    -  Greater Distances
35        Flight Declarations - Need for Precise Points

                    Photographic Evidence

36        Fixed Camera Mountings are Mandatory
37-38     General
39-41     Interpretation
42-43     Time-Recording Cameras

                    UK Local Records

44        Record Classes
45        Feminine Records
46        Glider Classes - Standard & 15 m
47        Additional Types of Record
48        Table of Types of UK, National and World Records

                    Submission of Claims to the BGA

49        The Co-ordinating OO
50        Badges
51        Time Limits for Submission of Claims
52        Claims for overseas flights
53        Fees

                    Annexes

A.        Accurate Height Measurements
B.        Extra Motor Glider Claim Form
C.        BGA Specimen Flight Declaration form
D.        List of BGA-Approved Barograph Calibrators
E.        BGA-approved Electronic Barographs - Procedures
F.        Assessments of TP Photographs

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Last updated by John Leibacher on Sunday, November 5, 1995 at 17:04