Re: FAI unique ID numbers for the 2018 Indoor World Championship

From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 10:03:24 -0500

If a person has an FAI stamp for one year and then gets a new one the next
year is the number the same? If not then it seems like a major problem to
remove an old number in order to put on a new one. I guess you could just
mark out the old one but people who build work of art models probably
wouldn't be happy about that.

The best possible solution would be to not require numbers for AMA contests.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Don Slusarczyk don_at_slusarczyk.com
[Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Leo,
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> On 2/25/2018 4:32 AM, leop_at_lyradev.com [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
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> The FAI put the marking requirement into the rules that apply to each
> indoor model class and this implies that the models need marking when
> national clubs adopt the FAI rules without change. However, the FAI has
> informed me that the FAI will interpret the marking rule as only applying
> to FAI sanctioned events.
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> Does this interpretation appear anywhere on the FAI website? Or in some
> official way that the Indoor Contest Board can use as reason to not enforce
> the rule unless it is FAI sanctioned event?
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> By the way, the JRO is not an FAI sanctioned event. I doubt the CD, Rey
> Mazzocco, and the chair of the AMA Indoor Contest Board (Don, who will be
> at the JRO) will be enforcing any marking rule for the JRO. And, I doubt
> that any AMA CD will be enforcing the marking rule in 2018.
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> That may be true but it needs to be addressed somehow. Simply ignoring a
> new rule is not what a CD should be forced to do. Like it or not, the
> marking is in the FAI rules now as a model characteristic, so any CD should
> enforce the rules as written. Because of how this ID requirement was
> written, it is just as important as weighing the motor, checking wingspan,
> weighing the model etc. I think if the FAI intended the marking to apply
> for only FAI sanctioned events, they need to publicly post that
> intent/interpretation on the ID rule ASAP. I think if we have that then the
> Indoor Board can use that.
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> Don Slusarczyk
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