The International Parachuting Commission (IPC) of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) concluded their five-day meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, January 31, and here are a few of their decisions:
Each discipline’s competition rules except style & accuracy were changed, some more than others. (The changes will soon be posted on IPC’s website.)
Russia will host the world championships of formation skydiving, canopy formation and artistic events, July 31-August 6, 2010, in the eastern city of Menzelinsk.
Russia will also host a world championship of canopy piloting in Kolomna on August 8-15, 2010.
Germany will host a world cup of formation skydiving and artistic events August 1-7, 2011, in Saarlouis, (western) Germany.
A wingsuit working group was formed with Jacqui Bruwer (South Africa) as chair and includes voting members Larry Bagley from the U.S. and Ronald Overdijk from the Netherlands. Taya Weiss (U.S.) and Jarno Cordia (Netherlands) have been invited to join the group as non-voting advisors. The group’s goal is to define and judge no-contact wingsuit large formation records so a recommendation can be made to the IPC for consideration of a new unlinked world record performance category for wingsuit, largest formation. The group will serve for one year.
The USPA competition committee will consider the results of the meeting when they deliberate at their board meeting February 19-21, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona. The IPC will meet again next January in Montenegro.
