A CHAMPIONSHIP DETAILS

Name of the Event: 13th FAI JUNIOR WORLD GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIPS

5th FAI WORLD 13,5M CLASS GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIP
Location of the Event:
Name of Airfield Michałków Airfield
ICAO Identifier EPOM
Latitude 51 °42’06’’N
Longitude 017° 51’03’’ E
Elevation 142 m MSL (QNH)
Google Maps https://g.page/AeroklubOstrowski?share
Time zone (UTC Offset) Europe / Warsaw UTC +2h
Organising NAC Aero club of Poland
Organising Club Aero club Ostrów

Time Schedule
30.04.2024 JWGC
Preliminary entries due
10.06.2024 WGC 13,5M
30.04.2024 JWGC
Final entries due
10.06.2024 WGC 13,5M
Reserve pilots accepted after 10.06.2024
Deadline for approvalof new GNSS FRs 10.06.2024
 Contact Aeroclub
1.04 –
Airfield availability for training flights director
30.06.2024
[email protected]
Registration period begins 10.07.2024
Registration period ends 12.07.2024
Technical inspection period begins 10.07.2024
10:00 – 18:00
Technical inspection period ends 12.07.2024
Configuration change closes 12.07.2024 18:00
Unofficial training begins 7.07.2024
Unofficial training ends 9.07.2024
First official Team Captains briefing 9.07.2024 19:00
Mandatory Safety Briefing 9.07.2024 20:00
Official training begins 10.07.2024
Official training ends 12.07.2024
Time and location
Opening Ceremony 13.07.2024
TBD
Contest flying begins 14.07.2024
Contest flying ends 26.07.2024
Farwell party 26.07.2024
Closing ceremony and prize giving 27.07.2024 10:00
B SPECIFIED PROCEDURES
1. GENERAL

1.2.1 Additional Objectives of the Championship

Sporting Code General Section Version 2024 Edition (Effective 1st January 2024)
Sporting Code Section 3 Version 2023a Edition (valid from 1 October 2023)
2023 Edition (valid from 1 September
Sporting Code Section 3a Version
2023)
Sporting Code Section 3ah Version Edition valid from 15 April 2021

1.3.1 Championship Classes

13th FAI JUNIOR WORLD GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Standard Class
Club Class
5th FAI WORLD 13,5M CLASS GLIDING CHAMPIONSHIP
13,5m Class

1.4.1 Name of NAC

Name of National Organisation running the event Aeroclub of Poland

Name of the Local Organisation running the event Aeroclub Ostrów
1.4.1.1 Contact Information for the event

Banking details for the event

Recipient Aeroklub Ostrowski
Lotnisko Michałków
63-400 Ostrów Wielkopolski
IBAN PL 10 1090 1160 0000 0001 1773 9001
BIC (SWIFT CODE) WBKPPLPP
Bank Santander Bank of Poland
Transfer title
Team Payment Country Name + Number of Pilots + If you have VAT NO
Individual Payment Full Name + Country + If you have VAT NO

Additional contact information

website www.jwgc2024.pl
email [email protected]

1.4.1.2 Units of measurement

Distances km
Altitude m (airspaces can be measured in ft and FL)
Mass kg
Speed kph
Vertical Speed m/s
Wind Speed m/s
1.4.2 Additional safety rules

An Online Safety Box will be used

Pilot are mandated to provide the FLARM range analysis graphs at the technical
inspection or via email by time of closing of technical inspection period.

1.4.1.3 Primary digital massaging by the organizers will be

WhatsApp group via Team Captains

1.4.5.2 Control Point file format

CUP

1.4.5.3 Use of Sporting Limits (Airspace Buffer Zones)

None

1.4.5.4 Contest Area Altitude Limits will be

2850 mMSL
2. CHAMPIONSHIP OFFICIALS
Championship Director Karol Skarżyński
Deputy Director Wojciech Batog
Task Setter Karol Skarżyński
Chief Scorer Wojciech Batog
Meteorologist Filip Borowski
IGC Officials
International Jury
President Marina Vigorito
Member (remote) Mandy Temple
Member (remote) Robert Henderson
Stewards
Chief Steward Øjvind Frank
Steward Lasse Virtanen

3.NATIONAL TEAMS
3.4.2 The Entry fee

It must be paid in EUROS

until 30.04.2024 for JWGC
850 € until 10.06.2024 for 13,5m WGC
Launch Fees
Aero-tow to 600 metres GND: 80€ payable in EURO
Self-launching gliders launch fee: 15 € payable in EURO
Prepayment of 8 launches will be required during registration This payment can
preferably be made together with the entry fee payment or by card during
registration.

Airfield Accommodation Fees

 10 € per tent per night (1 person included)
20 € per caravan/motorhome/van per night (1 person included)
10 € each additional person per night
Hostel fees
16 € per person per night
32 € per room per night
Booking rooms [email protected]

3.4.3a Number of allowable entiers per NAC

JWGC 3 pilots in each class

WGC 13,5M 2 pilots in each class

3.5.4a Additional documentation required

For pilots
✓ Membership of FAI (Sporting License)
✓ Valid calibrations of GNSS FR
All documents that are required to be carried on board the sailplane
✓
(See section 3.5.4b)
For all team members
Personal medical insurance (covering accidents and sickness,
including any hospital costs and transportation back to the team
✓ member’s country of residence) is required for all team members.
Documentary proof of insurance must be provided in the English
language and provided by pilots during registration for themselves
 and by the team caption during registration for all other team
members.

3.5.4b Documents required to be carried on board the sailplane

✓ Certificate of Registration
✓ Certificate of Airworthiness/Experimental Certificate/Permit to Fly
✓ Airworthiness Review Certificate (if applicable)
✓ Radio Certificate (if applicable)
✓ Flight Manual
✓ Third-party Insurance Certificate
✓ Pilot License (with a proper validation - if required)
✓ Medical License
And any other as specified in the Certificate of
✓
Airworthiness/Experimental Certificate/Permit to Fly
All documents must be originals (electronic copies are not permissible)
3.6.1 Third Party Insurance coverage is required of at least

Coverage of at least SDR 750,000 is required for gliders with certified MTOM
< 500kg
Coverage of at least SDR 1,500,000 is required for gliders with certified
MTOM ≥ 500kg
Third-Party Insurance Certificate must be in English language

4. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
4.1.1c Flight Tracing Devices may be required to be carried on board

4.1.1d High-visibility markings are not required

Additional Mandatory Equipment

✓ Strobe light is not mandatory, but recommended
For safety reasons FLARM collision avoidance transceivers must be
✓
enabled for the duration of the championships
✓ The installation and use of FLARM is mandatory
At technical inspection, competitors will be required to demonstrate that
✓
the FLARM is operational
✓ The FLARM should remain operational during all flights
Random checks of function and range may be carried out to ensure that
✓ FLARM transmission and reception is satisfactory for adequate collision
avoidance
Pilots may configure their collision avoidance transceivers in any way they
✓
wish, provided the collision avoidance transmissions are preserved
✓ Audio variometer must be fitted and used in all sailplanes
All instruments, PDA, GPS navigators etc. must be firmly mounted in the
✓
glider in such a way that the pilot’s vision is not affected

4.1.1d High-visibility markings are not required

Operations frequency for

Launch
 Finish
Landing
127,960 MHz
Start gate
frequency
Team According to list of frequencies published before the
Frequencies championships

5. GENERAL FLYING PROCEDURES

5.3.1b Additional data communication specifically allowed by the
Organizers - None

6. TASKS
6.3.1 Racing Task
6.3.2 Assigned Area Task

7. COMPETITION PROCEDURES
7.1e Procedures for discharging water ballast on the ground after daily
weighing (if any);
Water should be discharged into buckets at the weighing station
✓
Discharging water on the grid is not allowed
7.2.2 Contest site boundaries

✓ Will be published in Self briefing

7.3.2 Launch procedures for Motor Glider

✓ Will be published in Self briefing

7.3.3 Release areas and release heights

The standard release height will be 600m AGL

A depiction of the release area
✓ Will be published in Self briefing
7.3.3d Thermalling direction

✓ Set by the firs glider in the thermal

7.4.3 Start geometry to be used is

✓ Start line of 5km radius
✓ Ring of min 10km radius
The radius of the start line/ring can be altered and will be announced during
daily briefing

7.4.5c Conditions for cancelling the Task after the start gate is open

✓ Adverse weather
✓ Serious accident involving competitors
7.4.5b Pre-start altitude will not be used

7.7.1a Procedures for communicating real outlandings to the Organisers

will be

✓ Whatspp by team captains

7.7.3 Provision of and requirements for aero tow retrieves

✓ Aero tow retrieves are permitted and must be coordinated with organiser.

7.8.2 Finish geometry to be used

✓ Finish ring of radius 4 km

The radius and/or minimum finish altitude can be altered and will be
✓
announced during daily briefing

7.8.4a Finish procedures

Arrivals must be announced on frequency 127,960 MHz

The following phrases shall be used
✓ Contest number
Distance to finish line approximately and then as necessary to maintain
✓
separation and awareness
✓ Direct landing/speed finish
Call first at
✓ 10km from finish ring/line
✓ and then on FINAL
Preferred landing will be a “DIRECT LANDING” to the allocated runway
Gliders with more energy may elect to do a finish followed by a NORTH circuit to
the nominated runway
The procedures for joining the circuit of the runway in use for speed finishers
will be specified at the self briefing

7.10.1 Landing procedures

✓ Will be published in Self briefing

7.11 Flight documentation

✓ Must be submitted within 45 minutes after landing at the home airport

Flight Log files from the backup Flight Recorder must be submitted 60
✓
minutes after being requested by the Organisers
7.11.1 Flight log files

Should be submitted to the scorer by email to [email protected]

Data of flight, class and CN should be included in the Subjetc

8. SCORING
8.1 Scoring System to be used in Classic
8.1 Scoring software to be used is SeeYou 10.60 – or newer will be
specified at the first briefing

C. ADDITIONAL LOCAL PROCEDURES REQUIRING APPROVAL BY

IGC BUREAU

D. WAIVERS AND LIMITATIONS

1. Clarification of 5.4f
Competitors must submit a Flight Log for evaluation on each day (from the
beginning of the official training period until the Closing Ceremony) on which a
launch was made, regardless of the outcome of the flight(s). If the submitted Flight
Log does not provide data from all flights made during the day, the submission of
additional Flight Logs is required, for the purpose of covering all the flights made
that day.

2. Extension of 2023 waiver through 2024 (optional use of para. 7.4.6)

The use of Energy Control at the Start is optional at the discretion of the Director.
Each day at Briefing and on the Task Sheet, it must be stated whether the
procedure described in Annex A para. 7.4.6 will be used.

3. Change to Annex A para. 3.4.3d(ii) Reigning Champions

For Continental Gliding Championships: With the exception of the 20 Metre Multi-
seat Class, the current Champions of each CGC and current JEGC Champions may
compete as additional members of their team in their relevant classes in that
Continental Gliding Championship.

4. Change to Annex A para. 8.7

Penalty for PEV start outside of PEV interval: 1 point per second up to a maximum
of 60 points.

5. Clarification of Annex A para. 5.3 External Aid to Competitors

Reception of data by a fixed mobile phone for display on a flight instrument
a)
is allowed. There is no restriction on the information contained in that data.
Reception of data from the ground must be from publically available
b)
sources
Two-way voice communication on VHF between members of the Team
c)
(including the Team Captain) is not restricted in any way.
d) Reception of data from airborne transmitters is not restricted in any way.

See you in OSTRÓW!