Ako ďalej s pravidlami pre súťaže FXJ pod záštitou CIAM-FAI
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What we can do with the rules for Altitude limited competitions in FAI
Intenzívne debaty o možnostiach "legalizácie" na Slovensku zrodených pravidiel FXJ prebiehajú v úzkom kruhu zainteresovaných od prvej medzinárodnej FXJ súťaže v Holíči (teda od júla roku 2009). Významný vklad do rozvoja tejto kategórie prináša v poslednom čase najmä skupina nadšencov z U.K., ktorú okolo seba sústredil Martin Bell. Pozitívnym smerom pôsobí aj parta sústredená okolo Nelsona Gaspara v Portugalsku, ale aj ďalšie skupiny či kluby v Španielsku, Argentíne, Grécku, Brazílii aj na minimálne dvoch miestach (Bay Area Frisco, California a Albouquerque - New Mexico) v USA.
Aby ste mali predstavu o tom, čo sa chystá pre najbližšie plenárne zasadnutie CIAM FAI (apríl 2010), pripájam list od Martina Bella, ktorý veľa naznačuje:
Dear friends
I have had many encouraging responses to earlier emails and as a result I am now being asked by many people world wide, exactly how the UK are responding to the F5J-FAI-CIAM proposals. I think it is therefore best to let you have the exact wording in case you are asked the same question by the electric thermal soaring enthusiasts in your country.

Best regards
Martin Bell - UK eSoaring.
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UK enthusiasts have discussed the F5J rule proposal with our F5 SC member. He has represented our views by sending the proposal below to the other members of the committee for discussion on the 16th April. Please lobby your representatives to ensure that the setting up of a working group gets support. Please copy all supporting emails to me. I will forward them to Mike and George so that your feeling will be conveyed to CIAM.
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Hello all,
I propose that we withdraw our F5J rules proposal and set up a working group to revise them for 2011. At least we should discuss this option at our meeting on the 16th April. Mike Proctor of the UK will be in Lausanne and would like to give us a short presentation of the work which has been done in the UK resulting in the BMFA rules. These rules have proved very popular and in 2009 the UK held 18 competitions to the BMFA rules, organised in four leagues (one in Scotland, three in England) with five active contest directors and a total of 83 participants. 29 competitions are scheduled for 2010.

But this is not confined to the UK. One essential difference between the BMFA rules and our proposal is the use of a height limiter rather than an energy limiter. This was invented in Slovakia where the competition is very popular and has spread to many other countries. Another essential difference is Man-on-Man slot based scoring. This has been greatly eased recently by the advent of 2.4GHz. There was an International event in 2009 and several are planned for 2010. Mike will give us collected data on the global reach and interest.

I think we, as F5, should embrace this new event/technology and give it our support as F5J. They really would like the title F5J as it expresses clearly the message, F3J with electric propulsion. I fear that if we put a competing set of energy limited rules in the rule book it will remain a dead letter. By alienating the community we risk reducing the support for F5B whereas if we embrace it there will be people who like more speed and will cross over. This has already happened in the UK.

There are strong feelings about this in the Electric Soaring community. I see no downside to setting up a working group. So please let us listen carefully to what Mike has to say before making a decision.

George.