Ref.; “BTW, the USA does not have a current member on the FFT Committee.” That is true. I will be discussing this with Ian Kaynes when I see him to understand what the requirements are, but I believe one of them is to attend the meetings in Europe. With the AMA not willing to pay the expenses, the FF community would have to pony up the money to send the US committee member. I will advise when I learn more.
Chuck E
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The FAI/CIAM represents all of aeromodelling and free flight is but a small part of the whole (one out of ten aeromodelling categories) and indoor duration is but a small part of free flight. Of course, the CIAM voting body has much more diverse interests than just Indoor Duration. However, the real important committee in this affair is the Free Flight Technical Committee. As I stated earlier, six of the ten countries voting to recommend the F1D rule change had entrants at Slanic. One of the entrants at Slanic was Andras Ree. He is the CIAM Delegate from Hungary, the secretary of the CIAM Bureau, and a member of the Free Flight Technical Committee. So, the Indoor Duration part of the sport is proportionately represented in the FAI/CIAM hierarchy. BTW, the USA does not have a current member on the FFT Committee.
I still think we need our public effort to focus on calmly and reasonably working toward having any future matters concerning Indoor duration discussed by the whole indoor flying community before the matter comes to a vote of the FFT Committee meeting in 2016. It is not a matter of changing the procedural rules so much as making sure we work within the scope of those rules in an optimal way. Some of us did not do so this time around.
LeoP
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