Competitor's Sub Committee
About the CSC
The CSC is a sub comittee of the FAI's Ballooning Commission. The official site of the CIA can be found here.

What does the CSC do?

 

The CSC gives pilots the opportunity to provide feedback regarding issues important to competitive ballooning. For example, the CSC publishes surveys on specific topics and uses that data to give guidance to other committees (such as the rules committee) or occasionally to bring an issues directly to the floor of the CIA Plenary meeting for a vote.

For a complete list of CSC responsibilities, see below.

Who is on the Committee?

 

The makeup of the committee is subject to change every year at the CIA Plenary meeting (typically in March).

 

For 2012 the members are as follows:

 

  • Andrew Baird (USA) Committee Chair
  • David Bareford (UK)
  • Thomas Fink (GER)
  • Sabrina Handl (GER)
  • Paolo Oggioni (ITA)
  • Gerald Sturzlinger (AUT)
  • Maury Sullivan (USA) – new member

 

How can I receive news from the Committee ?

To be added (or removed) from the CSC mailing list, please contact us via the FAI Ballooning Commission mailing list.

 

The CSC has the following responsibilities

 

  1. Receiving and responding to issues concerning competition that are being considered by other committees or work groups of the CIA.
  2. Assist the EDS committee in active soliciting of bids for events that are of concern to the CIA for presentation to the CIA as a means of increasing the quality of the events through competition for the events.
  3. Advise EDS in developing minimum standard guidelines for any events to be considered by the CIA. This would include site standards, guidelines relating to pilot costs imposed by the organiser and suitability of the event organiser based on past performance or guarantees of performance.
  4. Develop standard guidelines for the selection of event officials. This would include the implementation of written testing similar to materials now in use by the Jury Board. Additionally, it would provide for standards of experience and success in past events in each official's respective position.
  5. Proposing papers or recommendations relating to competition to be voted upon by the Plenary.
  6. Addressing new items that may be of concern to the general competition community as they arise.
  7. Act as advisor and resource to the delegates on matters relating to competition.
  8. Develop a web site, as a branch of the CIA's site, identifying and discussing issues that are before the committee so that any competition pilot, committee member or CIA delegate can be fully informed as to the issues.
  9. Provide for a public and open forum at each major event for constructive input from competition pilots’ issues that may concern them. Results of each forum to be sent to each committee member.